Here are 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.”
Here are the five cuts from which one can select a preference this week.
- Bipartisan Proposal to Terminate the Advanced Earned Income Tax Credit (Saves $1.1 billion over ten years)
- Refocus the National Park Service on Administering Federal Parks (Saves $1.1 billion over ten years Note: I think this figure should be about 230 million, and may be a misprint on the YouCut website)
- Terminate Funding for the DOD Innovative Readiness Training Program
Saves $200 million over ten years (Saves $200 million over ten years) - Prohibit Taxpayer Funding for Campaigns in Foreign Countries and Recoup the Misspent Fund (Saves $23 million)
- Eliminate Duplicative Federal Physical Education Program (Saves $790 million over ten years)
Descriptions of each of these proposed cuts are available at the YouCut website.
This week, I voted for eliminating federal funding for campaigns in foreign countries. “Tax dollars should not be used to run political campaigns in foreign countries or to attempt to directly influence the outcome of foreign democratic elections. This proposal would prohibit funding for such activities and recoup funds already spent by reducing the USAID administrative budget by an equal amount.”