Posted on 04/07/2015 8:39:37 PM PDT by yuffy
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said he “would cut every bit” of the Department of Commerce’s budget in an interview broadcast on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.
“We either do it [spending cuts] 1% across the board, or maybe some programs we cut 100% of. So, the Department of Commerce…I consider most of it, if not all of it, to be corporate welfare. I would cut every bit of it…but if you can’t decide on it, kind of like the sequester, you don’t make up your mind, you don’t put a budget forward, then you’ll get the sequester” he stated.
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I agree — it’s one of about 9 departments I’d like to eliminate.
Zer0 out Labor too.
only Commerce?
Commerce is by far the LEAST offensive in terms of persecuting citizens, trashing the Constitution, and thoroughly promoting a hard-left ideology.
Yep, start with the IRS.
I don’t consider NOAA and the National Weather Service to be corporate welfare.
A lot of what it may do could be considered corporate welfare. However, it is the source of important statistical data about the economy that would be hard to replace. I vote fo 95 per cent.
I might have been impressed if he had said that about the EPA of Department of Energy
You never comment?
I wonder what percentage of their budgets are dedicated to agw?
Yep
Yep, the National Weather Service provides a valuable service that actually saves lives. Good use of a very small sliver of taxpayer dollars.
“only Commerce?
Commerce is by far the LEAST offensive in terms of persecuting citizens, trashing the Constitution, and thoroughly promoting a hard-left ideology.”
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At the top in revolving door crony capitalism.
It’s easy. Executive order. Bammy pioneered the technique.
Do it until even the libs cry out for rules. Then you have them and can re-institute the Constitution.
Every once and a while.
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