Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney recently gave the following response to a reporter’s question on what programs he would cut:
Of course you get rid of Obamacare, that’s the easy one, but there are others: Planned Parenthood, we’re gonna get rid of that. The subsidy for Amtrak, I would eliminate that. The National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, both excellent programs, but we can’t afford to borrow money to pay for these things.
It’s good that Romney can actually name federal programs that he would terminate (even if they’re relatively small programs). But how...











How Not to Make the Case for Terminating Federal Programs