SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Each year for the first week of travel in October, Federal employees who utilize GovTrip are forced to go outside of GovTrip and complete a hard copy authorization which is much more time consuming than just going through GovTrip. Then, once the trip is complete, in order to do process the voucher, all the information must be entered into GovTrip. This is a duplication and waste of time, paper, and ink plus wear and... more »

Few people are aware of this FAA program which wastes hundreds of millions of dollars a year. FAA just spend an average of $48,000 PER HOUSE for 30 houses in Great Falls to "sound insulate" these houses. Here's the rip-off: all these people built or bought their houses at market value years ago knowing they were by the airport...and thei mpact of jet noise (oh, by the way, we probabluy have 20 flights a day going in/out... more »

Not all pilots require an FAA medical certifcate to fly. Light Sport pilots only need a drivers license. Balloon and glider pilots don't even need that. All of the studes I've seen show no statistical difference in accidents caused by medical deficiencies between those pilots who currently need an FAA 3rd class medical certifcate and those who do not. Therefore, the 3rd class medical certificate is supefluous and wasteful... more »

Determine the length of time of retirees and when I retire give me a LUMP sum of my retirement benefits to use as I see fit and upon my death have the remaining retirement benefits returrned to the government. Example if I retire on 75K a year I would receive a lump sum of 2.2 million dollars based on living another 30 years, I would then utilize my retirement as I saw fit. And if I died 10 years early my estate would... more »

We should allow advertising on the sides of our FAA Airport Traffic Control Towers (ATCTs) in order to provide additional funding for our operations. Estimated revenue stream (based on highway billboards) of $35 Million from our top 35 ATCTs.

Create a flat tax for everyone with no loop holes, exemptions, or tax breaks.

Reduce the size of the IRS by at least one half of current staffing, associated offices, and vehicles.

This would create a vast resource of monies for government and remove the associated bureaucracies that weigh this great nation down. It would be a very positive step in getting our nation out of the massive debt crisis.

Taxpayers pay hundreds of millions of dollars each year subsidizing commercial air service to about 140 small towns (for example, Lewistown MT or Grand Island NE).
Some of these flights only carry a handful of passengers. This has been labeled "Essential" even though there is nothing essential about this. If the flights were "essential" then the Free Market would support it without needing the subsidies.
Honestly,... more »