Documents/RPP2012/6: Spending, Budget & Monetary Policy/6.2: Program Metrics

6.2: Program Metrics

Measure each program against a tripartite test and terminate programs that don’t measure up to those standards.

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We suggest a tripartite test for every federal activity. First, is it within the constitutional scope of the federal government? Second, is it effective and absolutely necessary? And third, is it sufficiently important to justify borrowing, especially foreign borrowing, to fund it? Against those standards we will measure programs from international population control to California’s federally subsidized high-speed train to nowhere, and terminate programs that don’t measure up.

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