More $ for defense, research, Ag, Education, police
Hatch supports the following spending levels:
Greatly Increase Funding
Defense
Medical research
Slightly Increase Funding
Agricultural programs
Education
Law
enforcement
Scientific research
Maintain Funding Status
Arts funding
Environmental programs
International aid
NASA
National Parks
Transportation and Highway Infrastructure
Welfare
Source: Vote-Smart.org 2000 NPAT
Jan 13, 2000
Balance the budget; but high priority to all spending
Hatch sets the following priorities for spending the budget surplus:
Highest Priority
Medicare
Social Security
High Priority
Defense
Education
Federal debt reduction
Tax cuts
Hatch would support enforcing
the spending limits agreed to in 1997 by the President and Congress to balance the budget
Source: Vote-Smart.org 2000 NPAT
Jan 13, 2000
Prosperity based on Reagan’s tax cuts plus balanced budget
Q: What is the best domestic policy you have seen in your career? A: The best policy that I’ve seen is when Reagan brought about a revolution because he reduced marginal tax rates from 70% down to 28% by 1986. That’s what’s been driving this economy
ever since. Plus the fight for the balanced budget amendment, which I led since then. Plus the appointment of Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin. Plus Congress has enforced a balanced budget on the American people.
Source: Republican Debate at Dartmouth College
Oct 29, 1999
Bankruptcy has too many loopholes & costs society
Under the Bankruptcy Reform Act, if people are able to repay their debts, they will be required to do so. We must restore personal responsibility to the bankruptcy system. If we fail to do so, every family in America - many of whom struggle to make ends
meet - will continue to shoulder the financial burden of those who abuse the system. The current bankruptcy system contains too many loopholes, making it easy for bad actors to “game” the system and avoid paying their debts.
No Chapter 7 bankruptcy for people with assets & income
Current laws allow some people who have the ability to repay some or much of what they owe to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, where they can liquidate their assets and discharge all debt, while protecting certain assets from liquidation, irrespective of
their income. Hence some debtors use bankruptcy as a financial planning tool, rather than as a last resort. I firmly believe that the complete extinguishing of debt should, absent extraordinary circumstances, be reserved for debtors who cannot repay it.
Voted YES on paying down federal debt by rating programs' effectiveness.
Amendment intends to pay down the Federal debt and eliminate government waste by reducing spending on programs rated ineffective by the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART).
Proponents recommend voting YES because:
My amendment says we are going to take about $18 billion as a strong signal from the Congress that we want to support effective programs and we want the taxpayer dollars spent in a responsible way. My amendment doesn't take all of the $88 billion for the programs found by PART, realizing there may be points in time when another program is not meeting its goals and needs more money. So that flexibility is allowed in this particular amendment. It doesn't target any specific program.
Almost worse than being rated ineffective, we have programs out there that have made absolutely no effort at all to measure their results. I believe these are the worst offenders. In the following years, I hope Congress will look at those programs to create accountability.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
The effect of this amendment will simply be to cut domestic discretionary spending $18 billion. Understand the programs that have been identified in the PART program are results not proven. Here are programs affected: Border Patrol, Coast Guard search and rescue, high-intensity drug trafficking areas, LIHEAP, rural education, child abuse prevention, and treatment. If there is a problem in those programs, they ought to be fixed. We ought not to be cutting Border Patrol, Coast Guard search and rescue, high-intensity drug trafficking areas, LIHEAP, rural education, and the rest. I urge a "no" vote.
Voted YES on $40B in reduced federal overall spending.
Vote to pass a bill that reduces federal spending by $40 billion over five years by decreasing the amount of funds spent on Medicaid, Medicare, agriculture, employee pensions, conservation, and student loans. The bill also provides a down-payment toward hurricane recovery and reconstruction costs.
Reference: Work, Marriage, and Family Promotion Reconciliation Act;
Bill S. 1932
; vote number 2005-363
on Dec 21, 2005
Voted YES on prioritizing national debt reduction below tax cuts.
Vote to table [kill] an amendment that would increase the amount of the budget that would be used to reduce the national debt by $75 billion over 5 year. The debt reduction would be offset by reducing the tax cut in the budget framework from $150 billion
