Czars, ObamaCare, EPA All Hit in Budget Cuts. The List is Here.

April 12, 2011

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The cuts achieved by Boehner and company might be better than we thought. The EPA took a 16% budget hit, two ObamaCare programs were eliminated, including the “stealth public option” program, four czars were eliminated and the wolf has been delisted from the ESA.

As you look over the list here and here, please note that they compare what each department got in the spending spree era of the democrats and Obama administration. 
 The other thing to remember is something Robert J. Samuelson said in a recent piece (H/T Mel):
Few Americans realize the extent of their dependency. The Census Bureau reportsMedicaid; 36.1 million, food stamps; 3.2 million, veterans’ benefits; 12.4 million, housing subsidies. The census list doesn’t include tax breaks. Counting those, perhaps three-quarters or more of Americans receive some sizable government benefit. For example, about 22 percent of taxpayers benefit from the home mortgage interest deduction and 43 percent from the preferential treatment of employer-provided health insurance, says the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. that in 2009 almost half (46.2 percent) of the 300 million Americans received at least one federal benefit: 46.5 million, Social Security; 42.6 million, Medicare; 42.4 million,

“Once politics was about only a few things; today, it is about nearly everything,” writes the eminent political scientist James Q. Wilson in a recent collection of essays (“American Politics, Then and Now”)The concept of “vital national interest” is stretched. We deploy government casually to satisfy any mass desire, correct any perceived social shortcoming or remedy any market deficiency. experts” — who provide respectable rationales for various political agendas. 

Someone’s ox will ALWAYS be gored because everyone has their hand out. 

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