Here’s this week’s YouCut proposals — spending cut proposals from among choices posted online. The most popular ideas go to a House vote. U.S. Representative Eric Cantor notes that “[o]ur nation’s debt grows by $4.9 billion every day.”
Last week, I voted for selling excess federal property. As proposed at YouCut, that would have lead to over ten billion dollars in savings. President Obama thereafter proposed his own land sales plan, one that would save less, but still billions.
Here are the five cuts from which one can select a preference this week:
- Prohibit Hiring New IRS Agents to Enforce the Health Care Law (Savings of $5 billion to $10 billion over 10 years)
- Terminate Exchanges with Historic Whaling and Trading Partners Program (Saves $87.5 million over ten years)
- Terminate Taxpayer-Subsidized Political Party Conventions (Saves $33.6 million every four years, and $67.2 million over ten years)
- Require Collection of Unpaid Taxes From Federal Employees (Savings of potentially $1 billion +)
- Terminate Funding For The Duplicative National Drug Intelligence Center (Savings of $440 million over ten years)
Descriptions of each of these proposed cuts are available at the YouCut website.
I voted not for the most savings this week, but for principled savings — Terminate Taxpayer-Subsidized Political Party Conventions (Saves $33.6 million every four years, and $67.2 million over ten years). Government should not be subsidizing the political conventions of any political party, ever.