One of the things that I have noticed, 3 years ago I outlined an Air Force program, an IT program, said we ought to cancel it. We did not cancel it. We canceled it this year and paid an $80 million cancellation fee.
Coburn highlights the failure to cancel a costly Air Force IT program.
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What we need is a simpler, fairer, and flatter tax code, so that everybody pays something.
I just do not think it works. And I want to be humane. We have a moral obligation to the least of these, folks who do not have a place to live, but there has got to be a better way to do this.
It's unclear to what extent the air marshal program is reducing risk to aviation security, despite the more than $820 million annually that is spent on the program.
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