Word: programing
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...very effort to spread the budget cuts across a broad spectrum of society all but ensures that the Reagan program will be attacked by the widest possible range of interest groups, including many now voicing pious support for the general idea of less spending. Already last week, Democratic House leaders, while advising their followers to go along with Reagan's proposal as far as they can, signed a letter warning Reagan to keep his bands off subsidies for development of synthetic fuels, which Stockman suggested chopping by $6 billion in the next fiscal year. Nor were Democrats alone...
Administration strategists are keenly aware that if every committee in Congress is asked to approve reductions in its pet programs, the budget-cutting drive may bog down in a hopeless tangle. Said Democratic Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin: "The way this town works, a lot of the turkeys will be salvaged and useful programs will be gutted." Accordingly, Reagan's legislative aides tentatively decided last week to wrap almost all of the program into four superbills. They are: the tax bill; a "recision" bill ordering reductions of $13 billion in spending for the remainder of fiscal 1981, which ends...
...Govern ment economists, headed by former Trea sury Secretary George Shultz, that will meet with him every three or four months to take stock of how the struggle against inflation and unemployment is going. In talks to Governors, state legislators and county executives, Reagan began urging a futuristic program to transfer all administration and funding of entire categories of Government programs, such as education and welfare, from Washington to states and localities - an idea that would involve a revolutionary shift in domestic political power...
When Lee Dreyfus ran for Governor of Wisconsin in 1978, he pledged that if elected he would return the state's growing budget surplus to the taxpayers. The maverick Republican won handily, and promptly signed into law a $976 million tax relief program. "When you recover stolen property," boasted Dreyfus, "it ought to be handed back." Today the surplus is gone. To keep Wisconsin from going into the red in the next fiscal year, the tax-cutting Governor says he must raise the state's gasoline tax by 53% and scrap programs ranging from new highway construction...
Today's fiscal pinch seems tightest in the Midwest, where the tax-cut movement has been fierce. After office in 1978, Minnesota Governor Al Quie approved a $792 million tax relief program. In his budget message last month, however, Quie projected that expenditures for 1981 to 1983 will exceed revenues by $1.37 billion...