It's a little wonkish, but it's a long utilized Leftist technique to complain that "cuts" in any proposed spending program are "draconian" when it reality most are simply reductions in anticipated rates of increase.
Say you end one fiscal year with a budget of 20 million dollars? Next FY the Law is set to increase spending 3% over that amount, but evil Republicans come along & propose to reduce that rate of increase to only 1.5%? The proposed "cut" is not really less spending from the previous year, but a reduction in the expected rate of increase...it's still more money though.
The Left has been using this little budgeting trick to both frighten Republicans from making any real cuts, and argue for more spending but Trump and Congressional Republicans are about to broom all of that Leftist hijinx in favor of "zero based budgeting" and an end end to "current services baseline budgeting".
It's about time. Here you go with details on each.
baseline budgeting http://www.cbpp.org/research/state-...eline-a-tool-for-understanding-budget-choices
zero based budgeting http://www.investopedia.com/terms/z/zbb.asp
Say you end one fiscal year with a budget of 20 million dollars? Next FY the Law is set to increase spending 3% over that amount, but evil Republicans come along & propose to reduce that rate of increase to only 1.5%? The proposed "cut" is not really less spending from the previous year, but a reduction in the expected rate of increase...it's still more money though.
The Left has been using this little budgeting trick to both frighten Republicans from making any real cuts, and argue for more spending but Trump and Congressional Republicans are about to broom all of that Leftist hijinx in favor of "zero based budgeting" and an end end to "current services baseline budgeting".
It's about time. Here you go with details on each.
baseline budgeting http://www.cbpp.org/research/state-...eline-a-tool-for-understanding-budget-choices
zero based budgeting http://www.investopedia.com/terms/z/zbb.asp
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