Congressional Issues 2010 GOVERNMENT
"Earmark" Reform
Congress should
make the appropriations process more transparent
stop bickering over the way less than two percent of the budget is
allocated and start focusing on scrapping whole departments, gutting
the military industrial complex, and privatizing entitlements.
Kevin Craig is relentlessly and passionately committed to reducing
the size, scope and power of government at all levels and on all issues,
and opposes increasing the size, scope or power of government at any
level or for any purpose. He will vote no on any spending bill that does
not decrease absolute spending (not just a decrease in the rate of
increase).
cutting the number of earmarks does not cut spending. An
earmark is a congressional provision that directs federal agencies
to spend funds already authorized on specific projects
cutting earmarks does not cut spending
there is no
ethical reason why a Congressman should not forward the requests of
his constituents that millions of dollars of funds that the federal
government has already taken from them and designated for spending
be returned to their district.
most
opposition to earmarks is a futile effort to make government more
efficient. Socialism is never and can never be as efficient as the
Free Market. The spending programs should be abolished entirely.
Federal spending
on a drug-addiction rehab center is unconstitutional. Federal spending
on an oven to gas Jews is also unconstitutional. Kevin Craig would vote
NO on the appropriations bill, but would earmark the funds for the
drug-rehab center rather than the Nazi ovens, if his NO vote is on the
losing side.