Blueprint for Fiscal Reform
A plan to balance the budget, cut spending and secure America's future.
If we do not pay for our priorities, we are merely passing the bill - with interest - to our children and grandchildren. The Blue Dog Blueprint for Fiscal Reform is designed to force Congress to address these issues today.
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IPERA: Eliminating $98 billion in wasteful government spending
Continuing down a path of excessive government spending not only means that future generations will be left with the burden of paying for today’s borrowing, but higher interest rates will make it even more expensive for families to purchase a home, finance an education or start a business.
Blue Dog Blueprint for Fiscal Reform
Budget Enforcement Legislative Tool "BELT" Act of 2010
The underlying structural deficits that plague our nation’s financial system are the single biggest threat to our economic security today, and the number one reason why we are headed down an unsustainable fiscal path.
Over the past ten years, discretionary spending has skyrocketed from $610 billion in 2000 to over $1.2 trillion in 2009, an alarming trend that threatens to cripple our nation’s economy and saddle future generations of Americans with mountains of debt.
Taking a results-oriented approach to government
Tax INFO Act: A Blue Dog plan to increase government transparency and accountability
The Blue Dog Plan would put in place a solid framework for making the hard choices that will be needed to achieve fiscal sustainability.
We have taken the first step to ensuring that government does not spend beyond its means by restoring the proven, bipartisan pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) rules that effectively brought about budget surpluses in the 1990’s.
The idea is simple. American families have to live on a budget. The federal government should be held to the same commonsense standard.