A million here, ten billion there, a trillion everywhere...Pretty soon we're talking about real money....
The right hand doesn't seem to talk with the left hand....
Noticed these two things in particular....
Reducing the reliance on petroleum fuel for the federal government’s vehicle fleet (pg. 55)
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Over 20 agencies
Undetermined ?These statutes and [executive] orders were enacted and issued in a piecemeal fashion and represent a fragmented rather than integrated approach to meeting key national goals.?
?The federal government‘s vehicle fleet has over 600,000 civilian and nontactical military vehicles and consumes over 963,000 gallons of petroleum-based fuel per day.?
?In fiscal year 2009, the federal government spent approximately $1.9 billion on procuring new vehicles.?
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Tax expenditures (tax exclusions, credits, deductions, deferrals, and preferential tax rates) (pg. 75)
173 tax expenditures, some of which have related mission areas as spending programs. Government-wide Almost $1 trillion
?For fiscal year 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury listed a total of 173 tax expenditures, some of which were the same magnitude or larger than related federal spending for some mission areas.?
?Tax expenditures, if well designed and effectively implemented, can be an effective
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