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Politics
The Anti-Appropriations Committee
An old-way plan to curb spending and realign politicians’ interests.
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Giving the anti-spending forces their own committee with congressional staff and the all-important subpoena power would begin to stem the tide of growing spending. Promoting the establishment of a new Byrd Committee as a campaign issue would also displace Obama’s attempt to undermine America’s growing antipathy to big spending, the “Deficit Commission.”
The goal of the Democrats over the next year, and in the next set of elections, is to misdirect America’s anger over the overspending, the bailouts, the stimulus, the budget increases, and the trillions for government health care, not to mention the trillions of corporate welfare for energy made from pixie dust paid for with taxes on reality-based energy. The Democrats wish to focus on the “deficit” rather than on “spending.” They have a solution to the deficit — a value-added tax to pay for the overspending.
The return of the Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures would put the focus correctly on spending, create a constituency in Congress for popularizing the fight against spending, and arm the members of the Anti-Appropriations committee with the weapons of choice in Washington: staff, subpoenas, and the ability to grab headlines.
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Grover G. Norquist is the president of Americans for Tax Reform.
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.9.10 @ 10:51AM
If only 10 Republicans would stand up and unify they could form their own committee and fight to cut spending and entitlements. They would have a tough road to hoe in terms of the MSM but find just 10 Republicans with the guts and they could make a difference.
Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 2:38AM
They won't .. they are too beholden to the big time money interests like banks, Wall Street and Big Oil to ever do that.... Only the Democrats can control spending ...
GavInTucson| 6.10.10 @ 4:28AM
I've got a news flash for you... put down the Democrat/Republican rant. Politicians, in general, both Republican and Democrat, are beholden to those special interests. Who do you think finances their campaigns?
Likewise politicians, in general, can control spending if they really want to. I seem to recall a period during the late 90s when a Democrat President and a Republican Congress managed to do just that.
Blackwatch| 6.9.10 @ 7:56PM
An anti-spending committee is a grand idea--if it can execute and actually cut anything.
The problem with our budget is that half of America doesn't pay taxes and wants more free stuff from those of us who do. They have the European greed disease and they vote.
Unless we can weed these free loaders off the dole we are doomed. We need more folks pulling the cart instead of riding the cart.
Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 2:39AM
They already exist .. the CBO and the GAO are the watchdogs for spending.
GavInTucson| 6.10.10 @ 4:33AM
More like lapdogs. For the last twenty years, the CBO and GAO almost always seem to low-ball the true expenditures or cost estimates by an average factor of four.
GavInTucson| 6.10.10 @ 4:34AM
Truth be told, I've never been able to trust their numbers any farther than I could throw them, and they haven't proven me wrong yet... not by a long shot.
Brian Garst| 6.21.10 @ 10:19PM
CBO and GAO are most certainly not watchdogs, and were never intended to be. They make no value judgments on legislation, only analyze its expected budgetary effects (with varying degrees of success).
frank| 8.19.10 @ 5:12PM
grover,
you need to study "Free Lunch" by David Cay Johnston.
http://www.amazon.com/Free-Lun.....amp;sr=8-1
after you read his book -- maybe you should find another line of work