Big government types to not like earmarks since earmarks take away the power of big government bureaucrats to determine exactly how the tax payer money is spent instead of Congress. The down side of earmarks is that is facilitates a you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours attitude in Congress that leads to big spending. Bottom line is earmarks are not the problem, spending is the problem.
“spending is the problem”
Yes it is.
Louie Gohmert sponsored a bill that passed the House yesterday (or the day before) that would make a significant reform in spending if it were to be enacted. (It won’t be with Harry Reid over the Senate and the CommiePunk in the Oval Office.) It would end baseline budgeting.
To stop our deficit spending at the current amount of revenue, we would have to trim about $1 trillion a year. That is what Paul is proposing. I agree with him.
I don’t hear many of the candidates talking about how much they would like to cut. They talk about tax reform, which is good, but I’m not hearing a lot about specific spending reductions.