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The Sun Never Sets on a Governemnt Program

Senator John Cornyn proposes sunset legislation!  Cornyn wonders why no Federal Program ever ends, Reagan did too.  So he is trying to introduce sunset legislation, a sort of zero based budgeting to force Congress to examine these programs.  OF course he mentions the Texas Sunset law, but gee, has Texas ever eliminated a program?

The National Tax Foundation has calculated what each Congressional District pays to support the Federal Government.  The average is $17,000 though that is a bit misleading.  Okay, whatever you are planning on earning when you graduate, better add $17K to that for the Federal Government.

We are now at April 15, tax time.  Have you noticed that tax day is schedule as far as possible away from election day-Nov 2, six months, so hopeuflly you won’t remember just how much of your money Congress wastes?  Anyone think this will help?  After reading the previous article about how SS is now 44% of the budget, how long till meltdown on this whole thing?

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    Jason Raper

    Well I am certainly in agreement that we should examine what these gov’t agencies are doing and why they are still functioning; to some accord.
    Maybe the best way to eliminate spending is not make the money as accessable to the gov’t which means that we will have to cut taxes so low that the gov’t is forced to spend less. This really isn’t my ballpark to be discussing, but that kinda seems like a no brainer….take the toy away from the child.

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