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Giuliani touts cuts in taxes, spending

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/011008/met_234567242.shtml

Giuliani would pair his plan with cuts in government spending - 10 percent to all government agencies except the military and to homeland security. In Giuliani’s estimation, the last effort to restrain government spending happened in Ronald Reagan’s administration.

He also suggested hiring only one government employee for every two who retire.

“It starts to create fiscal discipline,” he said. “It starts to say, from the top, this is not our money. It’s the public’s money and it’s got to be spent very carefully.”

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He also suggested hiring only one government employee for every two who retire.

That is a really good sound-bite, but it makes no sense at all in the real world.

How do you actually enforce such a policy or, more to the point, what does the legislation look like that actually enforces this policy?

This is like the promises that student body president would make to make water fountains dispense coke. Sounds good to everyone, however, it can never be accomplished.

A better approach would be for Rudy to outline which government programs and/or departments he feels are a waste of tax-payer money and make promises to do everything possible to get congress to send him a bill that accomplishes his goals.

What Rudy proposes is a bunch of nothing!