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So much of the budget has become obligatory that it has become hard to cut enough to make a difference but at least it is a start.

If someone really wanted to cut the budget we would end the practice of Base Line Budgeting and every aspect of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and every successor related to it.

We need solid ZERO BASE BUDGETING to control costs. What we have is an open invitation for waste, fraud and abuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline_(budgeting)

The damn thing is a crime against the taxpayer. Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia:

The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 provided the first legal definition of baseline. For the most part, the act defined the baseline in conformity with previous usage. If appropriations had not been enacted for the upcoming fiscal year, the baseline was to assume the previous year’s level without any adjustment for inflation. In 1987, however, the Congress amended the definition of the baseline so that discretionary appropriations would be adjusted to keep pace with inflation. Other technical changes, annual increase of now approximately 3% plus inflation, to the definition of the baseline were enacted in 1990, 1993, and 1997. Presently, the [automatic annual] Baseline Budgeting increase is about 7%.

Does your pay go up 7% a year? NEITHER DOES MINE so why should the feral gubment’s pay go up like that?

Thank Reagan for not vetoing this mess and going to the mat with Tip O’neal about it and thank Tricky Dick for the EPA and thank Reagan for what is now the 401K disaster. Other than that they were republicans and maybe did some good things.