Re: "Programs ... from which no one derives a benefit"
Author: Alvah C
Date: 05-16-2011 - 11:43
Dragoman Wrote:
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> A Crocker:
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> I believe that your suggestion is just another
> form of the same "Don't cut MY benefits, cut HIS
> benefits."
>
> The real problem is IMHO that someone derives
> benefit from every program.
I believe that you and I are on the same page, really. My poorly stated point is, as you say, all programs have beneficiaries, therefore, there ultimately wouldn't be any program to drop. Since there is nothing to drop or unfund, the whole budget allocation process could be completed in a morning, the state would just recognize that all programs are funded.
Coming up with the money to fund all these allocations is, of course, another story.