[newzjunkey]

One of the reforms that's supposed to come up is a move from baseline budgeting to zero-based budgeting.

During the debt ceiling negotiations, Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-1) got a promise from Paul Ryan it'll be in the budget committee and a promise from Boehner to take a House vote.

Much of the growth and issues with "cuts" is they're only cuts to the automatic increases under baseline budgeting, set somewhere between 7 & 8% now. There's never an actual drop in spending.

Zero-based budgeting means every dollar demanded in an annual budget request must be justified instead of just arguing over how big the increase will be over the prior year.

We've had baseline budgeting since the Budget Act of 1974.

[MNJohnnie]

One of the reforms that's supposed to come up is a move from baseline budgeting to zero-based budgeting

About time they did this.