Citizens Against Government Waste
Prime Cuts Citizen's Demand 

Whereas, American taxpayers send $1.1 trillion a year to Washington;

Whereas, excluding revenue from corporate and business taxes, 25 cents of every individual income tax dollar is squandered on wasteful, inefficient, outdated, and duplicative government programs;

Whereas, another 38 cents goes to pay the $431 billion in annual interest on the national debt;

Whereas, this means that 63 percent - or the lion's share - of the tax payments I send to Washington are either being wasted or used to finance nonproductive government borrowing;

Whereas, Citizens Against Government Waste's 2007 Prime Cuts Report itemizes hundreds of billions of dollars in deficit-producing waste in the federal government;

Whereas, enacting the 750 specific recommendations in Prime Cuts would save taxpayers $2 trillion over the next five years;

Whereas, the 109th Congress saved taxpayers $119.7 billion through the enactment of CAGW's Prime Cuts recommendations;

Whereas, Prime Cuts not only lays out a roadmap that would dramatically slash the federal deficit over the next several years, but making these cuts would free up resources to fight the war on terrorism, secure our borders and protect the tax cuts that have helped fuel America's economic growth;

I, therefore, call on Congress to enact these needed cuts in deficit-producing government waste to protect our nation's economy and the future of our children and grandchildren.

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