As politicians wrestle in the mud over the budget surplus, Citizens Against Government Waste tells Congress it can slash pork and fully pay for tax cuts with the proceeds. The struggle between congressional Democrats and the White House over President George W. Bush s economic agenda continues. The central issues are how and how much to fund tax relief this year. Let your watchword be dispatch, and practice what you preach. CAGW routinely exposes what it describes as wasteful federal programs and congressional pork-barrel politics.
Spending continues to be so wild that it makes the proverbial drunken sailor seem parsimonious.
On March 27, CAGW released a report accusing Sens. Their pork barreling is so excessive it borders on the obscene, CAGW President Thomas A. Schatz complained in a written statement. Stevens and Inouye may be the big boars at the trough, but pork is only one hole in the federal sieve through which taxpayer dollars are wasted. They contend more U.S. workers are employed in government and government-related jobs than in manufacturing. In a 1998 report, Phony Philanthropy, Paige detailed how federal revenues can end up funding lobbying or other purposes that seem to bear little resemblance to the program s stated purpose.