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1 posted on 01/25/2023 6:35:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Cut the military except for the Navy. There’s a lot of fat there.


2 posted on 01/25/2023 6:42:12 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: SeekAndFind

Eliminate base line budgeting, freeze federal hiring and reduce all federal departments by 10 percent per year until we have a surplus on the federal books. Why not eliminate agencies that have no purpose beyond their existence. The Legal Services Corporation sued Congress for threatening to terminate funding and WON! Midnight basketball, and a plethora of other agencies need to be abolished.
The American monetary system is worthless and eventually will fail. These people really think we’re going to repay a 30 trillion fiat money debt? STOP THE SPENDING!!!!


3 posted on 01/25/2023 6:45:44 PM PST by Fungi
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Put the college lending back in the hands of the banks. We had no business making this a government lending project.


4 posted on 01/25/2023 6:48:53 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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Take a copy of Article 1 Section 8. Take a copy of the list of Federal Agencies.

Where list B doesn’t expressly match list A... Cut it from the buget completely.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.


5 posted on 01/25/2023 6:53:23 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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Zero based budgeting, with line item veto for the President.


6 posted on 01/25/2023 6:56:53 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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Take all spending to the states and all social spending within the states, and give the total in one lump sum to the states with no strings attached. Then reduce that amount by 10% each year for the next ten years. If the states want to continue that spending let them do it on their own dime. Return the federal government to the limited responsibilities listed in the enumeration of powers in Article I of the Constitution, eliminating all regulations that do not flow directly from them. Then close all those departments and agencies that have nothing to do. Also, if a trade or service does not actually cross state lines then it is not interstate trade is outside of all federal jurisdiction and regulations.


7 posted on 01/25/2023 6:57:24 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: SeekAndFind

They can eliminate the IRS by repealing the 16th Amendment and replacing it with the Fair Tax.


8 posted on 01/25/2023 7:24:17 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Blacks have placed stronger chains on themselves than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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here’s a concept, 10% cut across the board on discretionary spending


9 posted on 01/25/2023 7:40:03 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Three things:
1. 10% cut in personnel, across the board from the top down, including generals and admirals.
2. Wage freeze for everybody, except military
3. Hiring freeze, except military

And they can take all those guns and ammo that various departments bought and give them to the military.


10 posted on 01/25/2023 7:59:07 PM PST by NTHockey (My rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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Privatize PBS. End grants to all non profit and social justice groups. Shut down the Department of Education and HUD. Shut down the “Do Not Call Registry”. Bring the military home from overseas and station it on the southern border with shoot to kill authorization while construction of the border wall is completed.

End aid to Ukraine, let Europe deal with European issues. End federal block grants to states and local governments. End Obamacare. Reinstitute a work requirement for welfare benefits. Deport immediately all illegal immigrants.

Pass a sunset law for federal programs requiring they be reauthorized by Congress at least every three years and the reauthorization for each program must be in a single bill with a recorded vote by member of the House and Senate. End omnibus spending bills.

Place a minimum 20% tariff on all imported goods.

Tax private foundations and require them to cease operation 20 years after being established. When foundations sunset, the remaining unspent funds go to the US Treasury, not other foundations.

All fees, fines, and legal judgments received by the federal government go to the general treasury. No more disbursement of these funds to social justice organizations and other outside groups.

Immediately end authorization for unspent Covid emergency funds.

Privatize the federal flood insurance program.

Resume oil and mining leases on public lands.

End automatic increases in the budget baseline for budgeting purposes.

Require corporations and unions to fully fund their pension plans within five years. Long term this will save the government from bailing out pension funds.

End green energy and ethanol subsidies.

Use anti trust law to break up large corporations. Free markets are most effective with many competitors.

Return to budget discipline in Congress by requiring appropriations for new spending, or spending increases for existing programs, to be offset by specific cuts in other spending and or tax increases.


11 posted on 01/26/2023 2:18:41 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work o)
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We shouldn’t be cutting anything right now. After they(democrats and rinos) have spent an extra 1-2 trillion every 6 months since covid farce began now they want republicans to get the bad press for throwing grandma over the cliff? No spending cuts to existing programs! Just block any new spending bills.


12 posted on 01/26/2023 4:27:24 AM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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Ive got one that is super easy. Review EVERY dollar going overseas and cut out EVERY one of them that is a special interest or bulls#!t expense.I really could go for just cutting ALL of the overseas money period. If people want to give money to overseas projects or causes they can. It IS NOT Congress job to dole out taxpayer money on overseas interests.
Next to go, all of the BS research projects that these people dream up. This includes the LGBQT special funding. Now, if you are researching a cure for cancer and have identifiable and set goal posts to hit, that may be fundable.
Anyone have a ballpark idea how much money goes overseas for BS that is NOT going to help US CITIZENS HERE?
14 posted on 01/26/2023 7:34:12 PM PST by alexandria (Amnesty - Because re-electing democrats is a job Americans just won't do.)
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