where should the federal government make budget cuts?
599754
start with the department of education and move on from there
208373
Give small businesses tax cuts.  They would be able to spend the money on the company or employees, who would then in turn spend more money in local economy.  More money in the local economy will allow the business to expand into bigger markets.
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1. Cut the funds to Secret Services to 40%.\n2. Move all troops back to US.\n3. Cut funds for military operations on foreign ground to 10% of current.\n4. Deem DMCA and PATRIOT Acts illegal.\n5. Triple funds to Education.\n6. Cut down taxes.\n7. Reinstate Freedom of Speech and Press.\n8. Everyone over 21 allowed to carry a gun *BUT* enforce strict psychological exams for anyone allowed to carry guns (Individuals as well as Police/Army/etc).\n\n... To mention a few.
326881
I am a Republican voter.  A good thing they have done is cut taxes.  Unfortunately, cutting spending is supposed to go along with cutting taxes, at least in my ideal world.  I wish they would have secured the border.  Also, I wish that they would have given control of education back to the states instead of increasing the federal government's control of education.
325334
Hi,\n\nWell I dound an interesting website that gives an overview of the federal budget. Take a look at : http://www.federalbudget.com/  .\n\nGood Luck!
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Bush budget cuts food program for pregnant women and infants.  According to the Los Angeles Times, “Another program new to Bush’s hit list is the Agriculture Department's commodity supplemental food program, which provides food packages to low-income elderly people, pregnant women and infants.” (2/6/06)  One in five children in America live in relative poverty yet President Bush proposes cutting this program that provides food packages for mothers, children, and seniors.  President Bush’s budget would also weaken the Women, Infant, and Children nutrition program\n\nBush budget cuts funding for children.  From health care to child care, President Bush’s budget underserves America’s children:\n\n    * Cuts funding for children’s health care.  “Mr. Bush will propose eliminating programs to treat people with traumatic brain injuries and to improve emergency medical services for children.” (New York Times, 2/5/06)\n    * Cuts to children’s hospitals.  Free-standing children’s hospitals depend upon the federal government to support the training of health professionals.  But the President has proposed to cut the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (GME) program by $198 million – from $297 million in Fiscal Year 2006 to $99 million in Fiscal Year 2007. \n    * Cuts to child care assistance.  The Bush budget also calls for $1.03 billion in child care funding cuts over the next five years, denying more than 400,000 children from receiving child care in 2011 as compared to 2005 levels. (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)  \n\nBush budget proposes the largest education cut in the history of our country. Tuition and fees have increased 57 percent for a public four-year college and 32 percent for a private four-year college since 2000.  Despite this growing concern for students and their families, the President’s budget freezes the maximum Pell Grant award at $4,050, the same level as 2003.  Failure to increase Pell Grants is weakening the value of these grants:  in 1975, a Pell Grant covered 80 percent of the cost of a public four-year college education while today it covers only about 40 percent.  The President’s budget also proposes to eliminate the Perkins loan program, which provides low-interest, fixed-rate loans for students with financial need, and plans to recall the federal portion of revolving funds collected by participating institutions.  Furthermore, the President’s budget would eliminate the Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership (LEAP) program, which provides a federal match to states for need-based grant and work-study assistance. \n\nBush budget eliminates Social Security death benefits.  The Bush budget would eliminate the $255 death benefit provided by Social Security to the families of those who die.  While modest, this benefit is important to many families who need assistance in order to bury their loved ones with dignity.Bush budget cuts job training programs.  At a time of uncertainty for so many American workers, the Bush budget proposes to cut funding for critical job training programs.  These cuts could not come at a worse time for working mothers, young women starting out their careers, and their families.  For example, the Bush budget would cut funding for:\n\n    * Job training and employment services by $695 million (eight percent);\n    * Dislocated worker employment and training programs by $223 million (17 percent);\n    * Adult employment and training activities by $145 million (17 percent);\n    * Youth training programs by $100 million (11 percent); and\n    * The Job Corps program, an education and job training program to help young people start their careers, by $55 million (over three percent) and rescind $75 million of un-obligated Job Corps construction funds. This is just some of the buget cuts that are happening with Bush!!
445551
decline. the governemtn should spend more on  the people living in poverty before it tries to save anyone else
188978
I think each State should take care of thier own property.  As far as leasing it to a foreign Country!!! NO!!!  It is our land, we take care of it ourselves!!!!  States should spend what money they do get from us and the Federal Government to take care of themselves instead of Blowing it!
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Yes, let's create a branch of government for everyone.  Let's not fix the issue on our own, such as where we spend our money or who we vote for.  It's probably best if we just create more government to solve all of our problems.
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I think a "Cafeteria Government" would be good ... when we file our taxes, we check boxes on where we want the tax money to go to.\n\nCorporations/Institutions would send surveys out to the employees and then fill out an allocation of expenditures for governmental spending.
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People want to cut defense spending, I think, because they have no concept of what the Federal Budget actually looks like.  The 2007 budget is slated to spend about 17% on defense, while spending about 58% on entitlements and about 9% on interest on the debt.  We could cut military spending all day and it would hardly dent the budget.  We need to cut spending on entitlements (medicare, social security, medicaid, welfare) to get the budget and spending under control.\n\nIf you look at US military spending as a percentage of GDP, it is just about at an all-time recent low at 3.7% in 2003.  This is very low.  The USSR spent between 15% - 17% of it's GDP on the military in the mid 80's.
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Try this link and it will direct you to where you need to go. Trust me you will find what you need to know here, and hopefully will award me for the information! =)\n\nhttp://www.firstgov.gov
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I'd recommend that they disband the IRS - put all the tax collection in the hands of state tax boards that would send the state's portion of the federal budget to run only Constitutional federal programs while keeping the rest of the money in the state where collected.  This would prevent the middle man of sending money to Washington just to have it come back to the states - talk about waste.  This would put the responsibility of programs in the states which would allow the programs to be tailored to local needs.  This would also create more jobs in the local economy by putting the previous federal programs in the various state.  Just a thought.
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Health and Human Services (Which includes Urban Development, and Welfare) comes in at number one with a yearly projected budget of 650 Billion Dollars. Department of Defense is number two with a projected budget of around 515 Billion Dollars, and the Treasury Department is number 3 with a projected budget of 415 Billion Dollars (mostly due to the interest we pay on the national debt.)\n\nThe next largest after that is a huge drop with the Department of Agriculture with a projected budget of around 90 Billion.\n\n\nPlease Note that Social Security is not part of the Federal Budget general fund. It is a separate account and has its own source of income. As a comparison though, Social Security has an estimated budget of 500 Billion. \n\nFission
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Everyone should pay their fair share, but no one should be forced into poverty by the government.  Whatever the percentage is, it should be enough to cover the expenses that the government incurs.  \n\nThe current policy of allowing the national debt and budget deficit to run out of control while pushing tax cut after tax cut is irresponsible and foolhardy.  If you ran your own personal finances the way the Bush administration runs our government's, you would either be bankrupt or in jail in the wink of an eye, probably both.
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That would be nice, but it is very complicated to implement.  And it had the potential to get more out of hand then what we got now.\n\nI think the senators, representatives, and other major government officials should take a pay cut.  That could save millions per year.  And it could make them more concerned for the average American.
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Entitlements are the number one killer of the us economy.  We pay so much more in taxes because of the programs. When you make it easy for people not to work the inclined they are not.  Our government should cut these programs agressively but a majority of the congress doenst have the guts to do it.  You look at the best economy as far as capita per person it is Ireland. They have a flax tax of 16 percent and very few social programs.