Budget Cuts
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Every mayoral candidate promises to cut that but then discovers there’s no ‘Waste, Fraud, and Abuse’ line item in the budget.
@jon-nyc said in Budget Cuts:
Every mayoral candidate promises to cut that but then discovers there’s no ‘Waste, Fraud, and Abuse’ line item in the budget.
There are two major problems. First, to accurately identify waste, fraud, and abuse, you actually have to invest into an audit. Voters generally have a negative view of somebody that says they are going to save money actually start by spending money.
2nd there a ton of legal obstacles to cutting fraud and waste. Remember those $500 hammers? They aren’t that absurd anymore, they are $50 on a GSA Schedule. The same hammer is $7 on Home Depot.com but they cannot order it there, they have to go through the GEA process…
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I would love to create an administrative agency whose sole job was to identify and eliminate waste. And the funding for the agency would be a percentage of the identified and eliminated waste.
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