From the Schools to the Sewers

The budget surgery would affect just about everybody

Even more impressive than the depth of Reagan's proposed budget cuts is the breadth. The President is asking Congress to reduce future spending for no fewer than 83 programs that benefit workers, businessmen, farmers, students, artists, the elderly, the sick, the poor, passengers on airplanes, trains, subways, buses—just about everybody. He would lower federal support for museums, delay some space-exploration projects, reduce postal subsidies possibly enough to force cancellation of Saturday mail deliveries. He would give states and cities far more authority to decide how to use money sent from Washington for education and...