Tea Party Would Cut $9 Trillion

[Mad Scientist]

1.2 trillion over 10 years? A mere pittance! 9 Trillion? Now we're talkin'!:
Exclusive: Tea Party Would Cut $9 Trillion - US News and World Report

Their plan would cut spending by $9.7 trillion, and shrink the federal government from 24 percent of GDP to 17.5 percent, in line with the post-war norm. Key initiatives include:

• Repealing the president's health care reform plan.
• Eliminating four cabinet agencies: Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce and Education, and reducing or privatizing the EPA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and TSA. (I'm holding up 4 fingers Gov. Perry)
• Ending farm subsidies, foreign aid to unfriendly nations, and student loans, or what the Tea Party report called "luxuries we can no longer afford."
• Suspending pension contributions and cost of living adjustments to lawmakers when the budget is running a deficit.
• Killing all congressional earmarks.
• Cut federal employee pay by 10 percent and slash employee travel to $4 billion, half of what was spent in 2000.
• Make the Bush tax cuts and the alternative minimum tax permanent.

The only thing I see missing is to End the Fed, at least how it operates now.

 

[uscitizen]

Privatize the EPA???

Like putting the gator in charge of the henhouse.

 

[rdean]

Teabithers think they want to return to the bronze age. Because it sounds "shiny".

 

[Mad Scientist]

Privatize the EPA???
Like putting the gator in charge of the henhouse.

Right. Because never had clean drinking water before Nixon created a bloated gov't bureaucracy to "protect" it.

Teabithers think they want to return to the bronze age. Because it sounds "shiny".

rdean has nothing intelligent or constructive to add? What a surprise!

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I'm not sure exactly how you privatize the EPA. Personally, I'm not sure a federal EPA is needed anyway. Pretty much every state has its own environmental board of some sort to monitor those things anyway and if two or more states have a conflict over environmental issues that's what the courts are for.

 

[HoosierJoe]

Which is why the Tea Party is so hated. They want to cut all over that precious dole so many companies and individuals are getting.

 

[code1211]

1.2 trillion over 10 years? A mere pittance! 9 Trillion? Now we're talkin'!:
Exclusive: Tea Party Would Cut $9 Trillion - US News and World Report

Their plan would cut spending by $9.7 trillion, and shrink the federal government from 24 percent of GDP to 17.5 percent, in line with the post-war norm. Key initiatives include:

• Repealing the president's health care reform plan.
• Eliminating four cabinet agencies: Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce and Education, and reducing or privatizing the EPA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and TSA. (I'm holding up 4 fingers Gov. Perry)
• Ending farm subsidies, foreign aid to unfriendly nations, and student loans, or what the Tea Party report called "luxuries we can no longer afford."
• Suspending pension contributions and cost of living adjustments to lawmakers when the budget is running a deficit.
• Killing all congressional earmarks.
• Cut federal employee pay by 10 percent and slash employee travel to $4 billion, half of what was spent in 2000.
• Make the Bush tax cuts and the alternative minimum tax permanent.

The only thing I see missing is to End the Fed, at least how it operates now.

Where do I sign up?