I'll applaud that sentiment. How and where?
Rand Paul wants to eliminate the Federal Departments of Education, Energy and Commerce.
That's something like: $64 Billion at Education, $26 Billion at Energy, and $22 Billion at Commerce. $112 Billion or thereabouts; and that's just regular budgeting, not counting tens of billions more in supplemental funding being sluiced through these Departments from the Stimulus Act funds.
Proposing $112 Billion in cuts from the regular budget, as his opening salvo, is not really a bad start.