Don't spend every cent
First, my background, I spend 22.5 years in the active duty Air Force, serving my country. Why is it that the federal govt has to spend every ...more »
First, my background, I spend 22.5 years in the active duty Air Force, serving my country.
Why is it that the federal govt has to spend every penny that it's given? In the AF I saw the same thing every year. At the beginning of the fiscal year we were given our budget. At the 10th or 11th month of that same fiscal year, we were told to spend all the money we had left over, we HAD to spend it. New chairs, desk, computers, staplers and so on until every cent was spent.
I say that we need to rethink how the Federal Govt. spends it's money. We would not run our households and businesses that way, why is it ok to run the government that way?
I recommend that at the end of the year, any money that's left over in the budget gets turned back in. This return of capital could be used to pay off the deficit, put back into investments or even put back for the next year's budget. What's so hard to figure out?
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