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Maintaining trust and confidence in the government requires strong democratic processes and government institutions.
Information about public-benefit programs should be shortened and simplified. This includes application forms, procedures, and program notices.
Government budgets reflect the priorities of policymakers. They specify what programs and activities the government will support and how to raise the money needed to fund them.
Efforts to reform entitlement spending should recognize the following factors:
Higher levels of government should provide adequate resources when mandating functions to lower levels of government.
Services should be implemented and operated by the level of government that can most appropriately and efficiently deliver them.
Tax and spending decisions should be the purview of the legislative branch.
A balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution should not be adopted.
Policymakers should enact effective and balanced rules for fiscal discipline.
Governments should not limit their ability to address future economic and political changes and the need for investments.