Some of the proposed spending cuts range from outdated farm subsidy programs to pricey Pentagon weapons programs and the so-called "carried-interest" loophole on Wall Street.
We have put forward substantial and specific savings in entitlement programs, both health care entitlements and non-health care mandatories, to use budgetspeak, including farm subsidy programs and others.
Gingrich also led his Republicans to adopt a phaseout of Depression era farm subsidy programs through Freedom to Farm, which was later unfortunately reversed under Speaker Hastert and President George W. Bush after Gingrich left.
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An end-point of 2010 would have put more beef into the review planned for 2008, as well as holding out greater hope of farm-subsidy reforms in the Doha round.
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The minister set up the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) improvement project to systematically review and, if necessary, correct each of the 742, 000 fields currently used to claim the Single Farm Payment subsidy.
On this issue, too, Mr Juncker has tried to find a compromise, suggesting that the rebate debate be linked to farm-subsidy reforms, and that Britain's rebate be frozen in nominal terms for several years.
"Unfortunately, it seems that Congress' idea of farm bill reform is to eliminate one subsidy program only to invent a new one to take its place, " Sen.
Years later, we oversaw a similar project but in reverse: In 2008, without a government subsidy, we built a wind farm in Lubbock, Texas, to supplement at lower costs the delivery of electricity to a cottonseed-oil company.
The European Commission has said EU farm spending should no longer be based on previous subsidy levels for farmers.
The political clout of farm states in an election year led to this gross subsidy-fest, with lawmakers falling over themselves to dole out cash to farmers.
Congress this month extended the credit for another year, allowing developers to qualify for the subsidy as long as they begin construction of a wind farm in 2013.
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All the old complex payments for what farmers were able to produce have been replaced by just one subsidy based upon the amount of land the farmer has - known as the Single Farm Payment.
Subsidy-hooked farmers want higher prices, not lower ones, to keep pace with rising farm costs and falling incomes.
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