A reader writes:

Re: NRO Comment: Programs We Could Do Without
Why start with “programs” and at Senator Coburn’s website?
How about we start here.
I think we could safely eliminate 34 of 39 agencies, along with their associated budgets/funding, and that was just reading through the “A” list.

And other makes this point:

It seems that for any good or service that exists there are bureaucracies involved in giving it away to perceived deserving people:
welfare
public housing
rental assistance
mortgage assistance
Medicaid
WIC
school lunches
telephone (wired and wireless)
cable TV
terrestrial TV (the converter box giveaway)
every utility;
public transportation
private transportation (some states give away cars)
education
EITC
other negative taxes, refundable credits, etc.
The inefficiency/redundancy is absurd.