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To: Mark Konrad who wrote (398584)	4/24/2003 9:09:56 PM
From: Mark Konrad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

All, please list your favorite program to cut so we can have our cake and eat it, too! I've already claimed dumping the UN and renting the building out as office space. More suggestions? Come one, come all--MK--

To: Mark Konrad who wrote (398584)	4/24/2003 9:38:47 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Plenty of wasteful spending to choose from, and bloated federal bureaucracies and fiefdoms... more than a little of that old Reagan favorite 'waste, fraud, and abuse', a whole other world of unproductive special-interest 'tax preference items' ('loopholes', to the rest of us:) that give unfair tax breaks to one politically-connected industry after another - at the expense of every other industry that doesn't get that same break. Yep, National Industrial Policy, and taxpayer-paid direct subsidies run riot across the entire federal tax code. Then there's the economically-depressive effect of all that convoluted, corrupt, tax code... business doing things for the artificial tax benefit, instead of for real, productive economic reasons. And, the direct benefit we could achieve of some $300 B. returned to the economy every year by drastically reducing the massive 'compliance costs' business and individuals pay to conform to our ridiculously-complicated tax system. Believe me, Enron had nothing on the Federal Government when it came to fraudulent book-keeping. Why, the B.I.A. over at Interior Dept., hasn't been able to pass an audit for well over 100 years! Much of the Corps of Engineers boondoggle spending (canals going where no one really uses them, sand shifting projects on the coasts, etc.) has a dollar return rate of less than one. A partial list of un-needed government spending would have to look where the big bucks are: Interior, Agriculture, Energy, DoD, HUD, Commerce... but every government program could stand a good look and maybe a trim.

To: Mark Konrad who wrote (398584)	4/24/2003 11:16:57 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Elimimate the counterproductive agencies and pork-barrel sacred cows, such as: National Public Broadcasting National Endowment for the "Arts" Department of Education Department of Commerce Environmental "Protection" Agency The Social Security Fraud The Medicare and Medicaid frauds ...just for starters. And since all of the above is illegal, they should be eliminated buy executice order, cutting the Congress completely out...