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'''Baseline Budgeting''' is a concept for accounting within the Federal Government for which spending can never be allowed to go below the "baseline". The [[Tea Party Patriots]] consider it to be a scam<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.teapartypatriots.org/content/the-truth-about-budgets-washington-vs-reality/ |title=The truth about budgets: Washington vs. Reality |work=[[Tea Party Patriots]] |date=December 16, 2012 }}</ref>, as do many other conservatives.
William Beach for the [[Heritage Foundation]] described baseline budgeting this way:
{{cquote|Baseline budgeting, just to kind of define it first before we get into the falsehoods that are based in there, is the building of a projection of spending based on what you are currently doing. So I'm currently building a house. I could -- under baseline budgeting, I could budget the same amount for building that house for each year of the next 10 years. That would be baseline budgeting. People say that's crazy. You build your house one year. That's it, not every year thereafter. What this does is it permanently builds in higher spending.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2012/12/12/all-star-panel-will-republicans-bend-fiscal-cliff-negotiations/ |title=All-Star Panel: Will Republicans bend in 'fiscal cliff' negotiations? |work=[[Fox News]] |date=December 12, 2012 }}</ref>}}
==History==
Baseline Budgeting first appeared in the [[Congressional Budget Act of 1974]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/10/congress_baseline_budgeting_and_fraud.html |title=Congress, Baseline Budgeting, and Fraud |work=[[American Thinker]] |date=October 19, 2012 }}</ref>.
==Effect on government spending==
The current effect is that if congress does nothing, spending goes up<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/17/baseline-budgeting-the-statists-thumb-on-the-scale/2/#ixzz3eJY1XEvN |title=Baseline budgeting: The statists’ thumb on the scale |work=[[The Daily Caller]] |date=September 17, 2013 }}</ref>, and it also allows dishonest politicians like [[Barack Hussein Obama]] to make claims that are reflected against the 'wilderness of mirrors'<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323401904578157233680080150 |title=The Budget Baseline Con |work=[[Wall Street Journal]] |date=December 6, 2012 }}</ref> that is the budget, thus allowing them to deceive the American people.
==References==
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William Beach for the [[Heritage Foundation]] described baseline budgeting this way:
{{cquote|Baseline budgeting, just to kind of define it first before we get into the falsehoods that are based in there, is the building of a projection of spending based on what you are currently doing. So I'm currently building a house. I could -- under baseline budgeting, I could budget the same amount for building that house for each year of the next 10 years. That would be baseline budgeting. People say that's crazy. You build your house one year. That's it, not every year thereafter. What this does is it permanently builds in higher spending.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2012/12/12/all-star-panel-will-republicans-bend-fiscal-cliff-negotiations/ |title=All-Star Panel: Will Republicans bend in 'fiscal cliff' negotiations? |work=[[Fox News]] |date=December 12, 2012 }}</ref>}}
==History==
Baseline Budgeting first appeared in the [[Congressional Budget Act of 1974]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/10/congress_baseline_budgeting_and_fraud.html |title=Congress, Baseline Budgeting, and Fraud |work=[[American Thinker]] |date=October 19, 2012 }}</ref>.
==Effect on government spending==
The current effect is that if congress does nothing, spending goes up<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/17/baseline-budgeting-the-statists-thumb-on-the-scale/2/#ixzz3eJY1XEvN |title=Baseline budgeting: The statists’ thumb on the scale |work=[[The Daily Caller]] |date=September 17, 2013 }}</ref>, and it also allows dishonest politicians like [[Barack Hussein Obama]] to make claims that are reflected against the 'wilderness of mirrors'<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323401904578157233680080150 |title=The Budget Baseline Con |work=[[Wall Street Journal]] |date=December 6, 2012 }}</ref> that is the budget, thus allowing them to deceive the American people.
==References==
<references />