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By Becket Adams
When freshman Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was elected in 2010,
he promised to cut federal spending.
It looks like he’s making good on his promise.
“The Kentucky Republican and tea-party favorite said
Thursday he’s returning $500,000 to the U.S. Treasury – money from his
operating budget that his office never spent,” writes Scott Wong of Politico,
and “he contends no senator has returned as much to taxpayers.”
How does he do it? Some would say frugality.
“We look at all of our office expenses. We look at the
coffee pot to the computers bought and we try to buy things as if it were our
money we were spending, or your money that we were spending, and our goal is
not to spend all of it, our goal is to save some of it,” Paul said.
If Congress offered incentives for lawmakers and staff to
cut budgets, the U.S.
could save $130 million annually, Paul added.
“I ran to stop the reckless spending. And I ran to end the
damaging process of elected officials acting as errand boys, competing to see
who could bring back the biggest check and the most amount of pork,” Paul said
at a news conference in Louisville, where he presented taxpayers with a massive
mock check for $500,000…
Source: The Blaze
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