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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TimF who wrote (9369)1/20/2006 4:50:47 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 541367
 
Dump the $250K/500K capital gains exemption for selling your house. No idea if it would save a significant amount but it would put the housing market back on a saner footing. Bad, pandering idea from the Clinton years.

And don't let anyone touch the Social Security surplus. Invest the damn money for the future like the law says. Another dumb idea from the late 1990's if I recall correctly.

As for the entire US government budget, that's a tall order. Give me a link to a tidy list of a few thousand line items and I could check off a few here and there to dump. To start, I would have saved $200 billion+ not invading Iraq.

And give me a president with line-item veto authority and the balls to use it, or veto whole spending bills when they bust the limits everyone agreed to. Without a spineless executive, Congress can't run amok with the current party division.

Beyond that, my professional experience is in foreign policy, which doesn't cost that much when you aren't occupying other countries (a few tens of billions at most). I never sat down and parsed the entire US domestic federal budget to see what strikes my fancy.

I'm not even that concerned what they spend it on as long as the largesse is spread from top to bottom and we have some notion of fiscal balance in the process.
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