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Unlikely Allies Uncover $1 Trillion in Savings for Super Committee

WASHINGTON - As
the Congressional "Super Committee" searches for $1.5
trillion in
deficit reduction, a study by the U.S. Public Interest
Research Group (U.S. PIRG) and the National Taxpayers Union (NTU)
provides the
panel with a great place to start:

http://action.ntu.org/site/R?i=QH60ylpiGFeXJeHXVkwM1A

more than $1 trillion of spending cuts with
appeal from across the political spectrum.

While the two
groups have widely divergent views on many tax and fiscal issues, they
have
joined forces to identify federal programs that both Republican and
Democratic
lawmakers should recognize as wasteful and inefficient uses of
taxpayer dollars.

The U.S. PIRG
and NTU study identifies 54 specific cuts in federal spending,
including:    

*  $214.9 billion in savings from
eliminating wasteful subsidies to agribusiness and other
corporations
*  $428.8 billion in savings from
ending low-priority or unnecessary military programs
*  $232.3 billion in savings from
improvements to program execution and government operations
*  $132.1 billion in savings from reforms to
major entitlement programs

Co-author Andrew Moylan, Vice President
of Government Affairs for the National Taxpayers Union, added,
"Though it gets
drowned out by the din of Washington's partisan rancor, there is
actually a
large amount of agreement between watchdog groups both right and left
about
where the waste is in the budget. We hope this report can aid the
Super Committee
in the difficult task of repairing the federal balance sheet by giving
them
suggestions with widespread support."

"In
an effort to address the deficit, we too often forget to differentiate
between
the good and the bad; between public priorities and special interest
handouts,"
said co-author Dan Smith, U.S. PIRG Tax and Budget Associate.
"These
recommendations correct years of insider lobbying that has benefited
narrow
interests allowing room either for investment in valued programs or
deficit
reduction."

The report updates and builds on
recommendations developed last year for the President's fiscal
commission. The
fiscal commission adopted 20 of 30 recommendations in the bipartisan
majority
report.

http://action.ntu.org/site/R?i=Kklw-mfg1UJkgB-5dJRFng

The
organizations plan to send their findings to
the Super Committee which has until Thanksgiving to propose $1.2-$1.5
trillion
in deficit reduction for a vote in the full Congress.

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A copy of
the report is available here in PDF.

http://action.ntu.org/site/R?i=YbmepAEp28SAXMRdyGI6Ig

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