You're going to cut every soldier, sailor, marine’s paycheck by 25%? Or are you just planning to fire 25% of them?
Many government buildings and offices are rented. You plan to just tell the landlord, “I just unilaterally cut your monthly rent for the space by 25%, screw you.”? Everybody who does busines with the Federal government just got screwed out of 25% of what they expected to get paid, eh?
Cutting 25% does not need the reduction of people’s salaries, it would need the reduction of 25% of agency spending, and perhaps a 25% reduction in personnel.
“So you’re going to cut every Social Security check to every recipient by 25%?”
No, but I would cut the social security administrations operating budget by 25%, minus payroll.
Could cut every operating budget by 25% minus payroll. Could have every government employee kick in another 1-2% for retirement and medical.
Could take redundant departments, consolidate them, keep the people on payroll, but cut the operating budgets by 25%. Jobs that are replicated can be cut by attrition and early retirement.
Can review all government contracts valued at over $1,000,000 and renegotiate based on usefulness of the contract. In other words, the original purpose of the contract has been fulfilled, but. someone is still getting paid.
Actually, we can have all these contracts, minus ones for national security, put online and the people can determine what should be cut. This also includes all the operating budgets.
It is obvious the government cannot do this on their own. Give accounting majors 3 college credits for doing the audit.
25% was an arbitrary number and you leave it to the individual departments where to make the reductions i would redline the military budget but it's prolly not possible
i still say if you make X% cuts even overall it's still better than creating ANOTHER layer of government bureaucracy that will a)never achieve it's intended mission/namesake and b)will cost more EVERY YEAR from now to eternity!!!