Post #3037 by Dope1 on the US Policy board

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You're talking about (roughly) reducing the federal budget by about 20%. That's around $1.3 trillion dollars per year. That's an impossible number to achieve without major cuts in programs that no one would ever vote to cut. It's just too big.

We'd have to look at the top level numbers to see where it's all coming from.
There is one simple thing to: stop with the baseline budgeting and move to more of a zero based budgeting scheme.

Another is to continue to look at the entire health care model and system as it is...but that's another thread.

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