Friday, October 29, 2010

Cats living with dogs, lefty and righty think tanks agree on budget cuts

If Liberals are really serious about good government, they need to free up money from 'bad government' so the government can do it.  If righties are really serious about keeping taxes low(er) they need to do the same thing.  A marriage made, well if not in heaven, then in purgatory.

The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) and National Taxpayers Union (NTU) have joined together to propose a list of 30 specific recommendations to reform our future spending commitments. If enacted in their entirety, these changes would save taxpayers over $600 billion in total by 2015, the target date for the Fiscal Commission to reduce our publicly-held debt-to-GDP ratio to a more sustainable level of 60 percent. While our organizations have often differed about the proper regulatory scope of government and a host of tax policies, we are united in the belief that we spend far too much money on ineffective programs that do not serve the best interests of the American people.

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