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Title: 36 trillion dollar tax cut Post by: lester1/2jr on April 15, 2009, 09:59:15 AM This is, I believe, the all time greatest column. i've adjusted it for inflation but the conclusions are indeed timeless. Indianasmith and some others don't like this type of thing and it of course has no place in a badmovies forum but I don't care!! I'm too much of a snob to attend the FOX engineered tea parties so this is my contribution to all taht
Bulldoze the Beltway!! (http://www.mises.org/article.aspx?Id=633&FS=A+$21+Trillion+Tax+Cut) this chart shows the department, what it doesn't do, and how much we'd save by getting rid of it Quote Agriculture Grows no crops. $19 billion Commerce Neither makes nor sells merchandise. $6 billion Education Know anyone educated by the Department of Education? $34 billion Energy Jimmy Carter’s idea—need I say more? $17 billion HHS Dump the FDA, our most lethal agency. Whatever else HHS does, it’s bad. $54 billion HUD Inventor of "the projects"; destroyer of cities. $37 billion Interior An independent nation larger than France. $9 billion Labor Engages in no actual labor. $12 billion Transportation Capitol of pork. (Keep the Coast Guard.) $48 billion Corps of Eng Causes floods. See FEMA. $4 billion FEMA This agency’s a disaster (in dealing with the floods caused by the Corps of Engineers). $3 billion EPA If you want an important job done badly, give it to a federal bureaucracy. $7 billion Foreign Aid Retirement fund for corrupt dictators/ bribing Egypt and Israel to pretend to like each other. $11 billion NASA Challenger. Need I say more? $14 billion SBA They only waste a billion dollars each year, but they waste it magnificently. $1 billion Title: Re: 36 trillion dollar tax cut Post by: Jack on April 21, 2009, 10:02:41 AM I checked the federal debt not too long ago, it was 10.5 trillion. Now I see it's 11.2 trillion (Well, it's 11.199 trillion at this moment, so it won't hit 11.2 trillion for an hour or so). The only way spending will ever be cut is with a complete economic meltdown and total restructuring of the government, and that's pretty much 100% inevitable.
Title: Re: 36 trillion dollar tax cut Post by: lester1/2jr on April 21, 2009, 10:04:02 AM what we need is a controlled bankruptcy
Title: Re: 36 trillion dollar tax cut Post by: indianasmith on April 21, 2009, 07:08:57 PM The Biblical concept of a Year of Jubilee is looking better and better . . .
cancel all debts, worldwide, and start over again. Never happen in a million years, but it would be cool. Title: Re: 36 trillion dollar tax cut Post by: CheezeFlixz on April 21, 2009, 07:26:23 PM The Department of Energy was formed by Carter in 1977 to reduce the US dependency on foreign oil, the correct amount of the cost of the DOE is $24.5 Billion a year, it has 16,000 Federal Employees and over 100,000 independent contractor and since 1977 the U.S. dependency on foreign oil has doubled.
So good job to the DOE for doing nothing, and the government thinks they can run banks. :lookingup: You want to cut $5+ Billion a year from the budget right away and not really irk many American on the right or left, stop funding the UN. Title: Re: 36 trillion dollar tax cut Post by: lester1/2jr on April 25, 2009, 10:05:40 AM http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090425/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_spending
obama want ssuggestions on how to cut spending. what a weird thing to say, lke it was a diet or something. cut the spending , that's how you cut spending |