What governemnt spending should be cut back?

Question

What do you think the government should spend less on or simply cut all spending? Defense should be cut back, what else? Give a reason as well.

Answer 1

Government should lose the "use it or lose it" mentality. Government over-spending is exasperated by it. If you don't need the money this year, you won't next year, so they buy stupid S**t like office furniture, TVs, ect that they don't need/want so they'll have the money allocated to them next year too. If government had a "as needed" budget, this country would not be in the financial dire straits that it's in now. No particular programs should be cut, just a new way of thinking. You don't need to buy new lab equipment every year, say, but you do need lab supplies... allocate funds when they're needed, and allow the surplus to be used for next year's needs.

Answer 2

Education should be cut back as well as public housing and public health care. Those three are the work of the church and family to support and Christian businesses. But education mainly because you can't spell government.

Answer 3

the nasa funding. we spend billions on nasa. not that we don't need it but if we cut back spending maybe the people who build the shuttles will inspect better which will result in uneeded deaths.

Answer 4

Stop government subsidies, Pork barrel projects and initiate a user tax.

Answer 5

everything the federal government fund does that isn't authorized should either be eliminated, or the Constitution should be amended to authorize the government to do that (like interstate highways)

Department of Defense/national defense ($700 billion) - budget seems a little ridiculous, we could probably cut a lot in the military and still have the exact same military

Small Business Administration ($463 million) - tax cuts for the top 1% would be much better for small businesses, along with deregulation of the insurance industry

Amtrak ($800 million) - high prices, slow, inefficient, smelly, crash too much, if it was worth it private companies would be doing this

National Institute of Health ($28 billion) - private industry and charities can do better

Department of Agriculture ($94 billion) - corporate farms are a small percentage of farms, but collect most of the subsidies

Department of Education ($56 billion) - states and local governments build schools

I don't mean all of these need to be abolished, some do have their purpose, but they grow uncontrollably if Congress doesn't care about citizens' money.

Answer 6

Pork barrel stuff, paying farmers for not growing certain crops. There's a lot each agency can do to cut the fat, including getting rid of top management

Answer 7

Government should cut themselves.

Answer 8

nasa? really? you think cutting people's pay will make them inspect the shuttles better?

i agree that there's a whole grip of money spent on nasa (drop in the bucket compared to defense), but i think it goes to useful research. especially since we're singeing our atmosphere away. we're all gonna need spacesuits soon.

Answer 9

According to the U.S. Constitution, the government has limited powers when it comes to taxing us. They steal our money from our paychecks before we even get paid, and they hide behind the 16th amendment. It was never ratified, and is an unconstitutional power grab.

The government has the rights to tax us to keep the government running, to keep our infrastructure going, and most importantly to provide for our miltary.

Beyond that the federal government has no rights to our money and taxes.

Cut all government spending above these things, and that also means education, and welfair.

Our politicians are turning our country into a socialized country slowly. We the people have the right to stop this, but we chose to be ignorant, and lazy.

We have turned into a country who thinks that we have entitlements, without having to earn things. This just simply isn't true.

I urge all who read this message to read the constitution and bill of rights. Then try to debate me.

Answer 10

Cut corporate welfare. For example, why does the government allocate millions of dollars to McDonald's to pay for them to advertise overseas? McDonald's serves 18 million people a day people per day... and that's just the United States restaurants! Assuming each person spends $3.00 (a low amount) the company makes $54,000,000 (54 MILLION) dollars per day in the United States.... so why are the taxpayers footing the bill for their overseas advertising?