Rand’s “Bonuses for Cost-Cutters Act for 2015”
by digby
Oh, this is a sweet scam. Rand Paul may actually get a vote on his proposal to allow employees of agencies to get bonuses for identifying “surplus funds” which will be sent to general funds and used for specifically for deficit reduction. Golly, what could possibly go wrong with that?
This is a very, very sneaky way of impounding congressionally mandated funds to use for purposes for which they were not intended. The bonus part is especially savvy — it takes away the incentive some agency employees might have to properly do their jobs and instead put taxpayer money in their own pockets. This will make the agency less effective at the same time! It’s a two-fer.
They never quit.
*And by the way, he has a Democratic co-sponsor: Mark Warner.
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