Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
32.6% of the Gibbons budget was eaten up by HHS. The goal of small, constitutional government would have been served by cutting this cesspool down to its constitutional minimum: management of state institutions for the mentally ill and disabled. The HHS budget is completely opaque. A little transparency, please! Gibbons counts ~4,000 in-patients, and budgets ~$130M per year (less than 20% of HHS's overall budget).
The Public Safety budget (9.5%), at $285M per year, is perhaps most opaque of all. How many inmates are victimless criminals? Release them and CLOSE most of the prisons. Fire the political hires (ie females are guarding males). Stop enforcement of non-crimes.
I would not want to throw the helpless out into the desert, or parole violent felons, but I think that by attacking the waste within these legitimate functions, we could save a bundle. I conservatively estimate more than 50%.
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