Waging the War on Waste

by Thomas A. Schatz: Forty-six cents! That's how much of your individual income tax dollar the government squanders on wasteful spending programs.

Nearly half of your individual income tax dollar goes to government waste.

Another 31 cents goes to pay the $433 billion in annual interest on the national debt!

That leaves just 23 cents – or not quite one quarter of your tax dollar – to pay for the services that you expect from government!

Citizen Against Government Waste (CAGW) has identified, researched, and documented 601 specific examples of deficit-producing government waste that if eliminated would save $639 billion in the first year and $2.6 trillion over five years. That's why The Wall Street Journal, in a front-page article, cited CAGW as one of the top two sources of budget-cutting ideas in Washington.

What's more, we have consistently delivered results for taxpayers like you, winning hard-fought victories like cutting off Supplemental Security Income cash payments for drug addicts and alcoholics, ending food stamps for convicted felons, and enacting sweeping reforms that have eliminated $14.8 billion in fraudulent and improper payments by Medicare and other federal programs.

CAGW is right now working around-the-clock with leading fiscal conservatives in Congress to eliminate the worst wasteful spending programs; slash the federal deficit; and put America on course to a smaller, less wasteful, more efficient government.
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Thomas A. Schatz is President of Citizens Against Government Waste - the nation's largest taxpayer watchdog group with more than one million members and supporters nationwide.

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