Past experience with zero-based budgeting, both in Britain and in America, has been disappointing.
ECONOMIST: Public spending
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In the early 1970s, then-Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter used zero-based budgeting as a way to focus on justifying every dollar that was being spent in the state government.
FORBES: We can do better than 0-58
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The top Tea Party priority right now should be to replace baseline budgeting with this zero-based or family budgeting.
FORBES: A Budget Cutting Deal That Boosts Federal Spending