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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Government has a spending problem not a revenue problem. I could cut 25 percent of the federal govt workforce and it wouldn’t make a difference to most Americans. Just a jobs program. So much wasteful spending.[/quote]

You know nothing. Cutting federal personnel almost always increases costs. Most waste and misuse of federal funds is committed by state and local governments, contractors, and grantees, in large part because there is just enough federal staff to distribute funds but not to perform adequate management and oversight. Also, almost all the waste is in the most popular departments and programs that have bipartisan support because no one dares challenge to money going to a popular cause. Tax credits and deductions are the most wasteful thing the government does because almost all the tax breaks subsidize the baseline actions that would have happened anyway without the tax breaks. Studies continually document this but no one cares because tax incentives are politically popular. [/quote]

Sorry but you are just plain wrong. I used to work for the federal government. I saw so much waste it bothered me as a taxpayer. An inefficient bureaucracy with so many people in GS-13/14/15 and SES positions who are in do-nothing jobs that just create more roadblocks to efficiency. Wasteful and unneeded travel (boondoggles) was rampant. I could cut a quarter of the personnel working in the Pentagon and it wouldn't make a difference to the Marine, Soldier, Sailor, or Airman on the pointy end of the spear.[/quote]

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