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Talk:Backdoor spending authority (view source)
Revision as of 07:42, January 11, 2013
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I agree that 2 U.S.C. Sec 651 stopped authorization bills from creating new "backdoors" around the appropriation process. 651(c) sets forth large categories of "non-appropriated funds" that are still outside the budget process, including Social Security and Medicare. I still have problems with the phrase "backdoor" because there is nothing inherently wrong with establishing government projects that are supported by user fees, public-private partnerships, donations, etc. Let us just call these "spending authority" and use the pre-existing 2008 article to define them. [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 02:11, 11 January 2013 (EST)
I agree that 2 U.S.C. Sec 651 stopped authorization bills from creating new "backdoors" around the appropriation process. 651(c) sets forth large categories of "non-appropriated funds" that are still outside the budget process, including Social Security and Medicare. I still have problems with the phrase "backdoor" because there is nothing inherently wrong with establishing government projects that are supported by user fees, public-private partnerships, donations, etc. Let us just call these "spending authority" and use the pre-existing 2008 article to define them. [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 02:11, 11 January 2013 (EST)
:See the cite I just put in, "Borrowing authority, also known as ability to spend debt receipts". Borrowing authority is spending authority [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Backdoor_spending_authority&diff=prev&oldid=1028686]. Several GAO Inspector Generals over decades all use backdoor authority and spending authority interchangeably. The confusion stems from authors like Ruth Marcus who wrote only yesterday, "''The other points of leverage [for the GOP] — a government shutdown as spending authority expires, or allowing the [[spending sequester]] to take effect after the two-month delay — will also prove too painful and dangerous for Republicans to exploit''", when she just as easily could have wrote, ''"a government shutdown as [[backdoor authority]] expires...
:As for me, I'm out for tonite. Looking forward to working with you on this later. [[User:OscarO|OscarO]] 02:42, 11 January 2013 (EST)