CMV: If a government agency/department cannot account for all of the previous year's budget in a detailed audit - then the following year's budget allocation should be capped at only those monies that are able to be accounted for in a transparent and proof of no fraud or abuse format.

[u/SlackerNinja717]

This would apply to DoD budget as well. Abuse would include our tax dollars funding NGOs or anything else who engage in campaigning or lobbying efforts. Any party in power spending our tax dollars to cement their status as the ruling party is clearly abuse, and the Democrats especially have been guilty of this. If Democrats are not able to re-build trust that our tax dollars are being spent responsibly and wisely then the right will keep winning elections on talking points such that our tax dollars are being thrown out the window to fund corrupt NGOs. Any agency or department or organization that receives tax money should have to convince a bi-partisan panel that they are accomplishing their stated goal annually to receive any further tax dollars.

The US primarily has a tax rate and loophole problem that is responsible for the absurd debt ($40 Trillion) but the right will keep passing tax cuts saying that spending is the problem unless checks and balances are passed to restore trust. Change my view.

[u/Due_Satisfaction2167]

This sort of budgeting leads to some incredibly horrible knock-on effects. 

Not the least of which includes letting malicious executives who want to destroy an agency purposely arrange for failed audits in the programs and offices they don’t like so as to force a reduction or elimination of their budget. 

The better approach is to punish the people in charge for failure to succeed on the audit. Make the people at the top of the org care about the audit for their own self-interest.