How about zero-based budgeting? This idea that you take what you asked for last FY and bump it up X% is BS. It means that waste is never curtailed. A private enterprise would never survive “budgeting” like the government does. The government needs to have a “bottom line” too, not give us what we think we need.
It is worse than that! In the Marine Corps, baseline budgeting meant SPEND EVERY DAMN PENNY, ANNUALLY!
Because if you didn’t, your command would be pissed, because they would lose money the following year, based on your SPENDING from the previous year, NOT on the budget.
When I see veterans right on their resume, “Balanced a $1.3 million annual budget.” it pisses me off - because what that means is that he/she spent AT LEAST $1.3 million ANNUALLY (even if it was on pens and paper or extra TP)!