6.1: "Easy" Answers
iImprove discipline to the federal budget process [and] curb "waste, fraud, and abuse." Other Information:
"Easy" Answers -- Common recommendations to help fix the budget such as eliminating earmarks (or "pork barrel spending"),
reducing foreign aid, and curbing waste, fraud and abuse sound great but would not produce very significant savings. While
earmark reform would serve to improve discipline to the federal budget process, earmarks alone represent less than 1 percent
of the budget. Foreign aid also represents a small portion of the budget--less than 2 percent. Another popular proposal is
to curb "waste, fraud, and abuse." Though we would all like to eliminate waste, it is not easy to define exactly what it is
and what should be cut.
Indicator(s):
|
