The runaway spending in Washington is a recipe for fiscal disaster and will place unbearable burdens on our children and grandchildren.  Too often, Congress only pays lip service to reducing spending without taking any meaningful action.  This new initiative will put some teeth into efforts to reduce spending, while allowing constituents to play a direct role in identifying wasteful spending they would like to see eliminated.  Families are making tough choices to live within their means every day and the federal government should be no different.

The YouCut project is designed to challenge Congress’s culture of spending. It is a first of its kind effort designed to engage the public in refocusing Congress’s priorities. With a deficit near $1.5 trillion, we don’t think it is too much to ask of Congress to spend some time debating bills to actually reduce spending.

VOTE HERE ON  WHAT YOU WOULD CUT

My Proposal to Cut

I want to halt payments from American ratepayers into the Nuclear Waste Fund if the president does not designate Yucca Mountain as the permanent nuclear waste repository.  Over $375 million in fees from Minnesotans and over $30 billion nationwide have been collected, only to be continually stalled by Washington politicians preventing the construction of a repository at Yucca Mountain.  To date, the Yucca Mountain repository has not been built and the Administration has signaled it will not move forward with it.  Elimination of this program will ensure Minnesota, along with 38 other states, are no longer forced to foot the bill for a service that is not being provided.

Cross-posted at Erik Paulsen’s Blog.