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Ian62

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23. There are a lot more than $2.6 tn of Corporate Welfare cuts available over the next 10 years

Reply to KoKo (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 09:17 PM

Dec 2012

Last edited Sat Dec 29, 2012, 09:57 PM - Edit history (1)

It's a good article detailing specific examples of savings that can be made.

But there are lots of others as well.

I reckon there are at least $10 trillion of such items over the next 10 years.
Perhaps as much as $15 trillion when you add in some of the other items of government waste and Corporate largesse.

http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/it-is-very-easy-to-cut-1tn-from-federal.html

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