A number of other interesting proposals are buried in the details of Ryan’s budget proposal.
For one, he would turn food stamps into a block grant program similar to Medicaid, for instance, with benefits depending on recipients meeting work or job-training requirements.
He also proposes the eventual elimination of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government mortgage-support behemoths. And he would reduce the federal auto fleet by 20 percent, with the Department of Defense and the US Postal Service exempted.
He would also cut federal farm supports by $30 billion over 10 years by reducing the fixed payments that go to farmers irrespective of price levels and reforming the “open-ended nature of government support for crop insurance," according to budget documents.
