American Farming subsidies to end- Obama worst president ever?

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killerzX said:

Mr Khan said:
I do think it will be a better thing in the long run if we allow the subsidies to expire, because then we can have a more productive debate about which subsidies really need to stay and which ones are better left expired.

Like most political institutions, farm subsidies had their noble origin.

glad we can see eye to eye.

we should start with planned parenthood and pbs/nbr

Planned Parenthood provides an essential national healthcare function. Its services have to exist in some form or other on a purely lifesaving basis.

PBS/NPR are nonessential, agreed, but represent a tiny amount of government spending and indeed government funding is only a small source of their funding (they wouldn't go away if funding was cut). There are certainly better cutting targets than this.

What we can 'start' with is the defence budget. Cutting everything nonessential to the defence of the 50 states and their citizens should save at least 10% of ALL US expenditure.