Previous NSW premiers were entitled to life-long entitlements such as office space, air travel and use of state cars but O'Farrell reformed the rule two years ago reducing entitlements to 12 months after a premier leaves office and only when they have served for five years.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky). instead blamed entitlements such as Medicare.
But defence, national security and entitlements, such as Social Security and Medicare, were exempted.
A record number of the population now gets federal entitlements such as Medicaid and food stamps.
Entitlements such as the national minimum wage, employer pension contributions and parental leave also contribute to wider public policy goals.
This feeling persisted, even though the Rafsanjani administration protected key entitlements, such as subsidized food and medicine.
He supported protecting entitlements such as Medicare and Medicaid, defended Obamacare and said he broadly supported abortion.
Yet, apart from some particular entitlements such as paternity pay, the self-employed access exactly the same share of public spending per head as employees.
NHS free entitlements, such as continuing care, could be reduced or means-tested and hotel costs in hospital charged, as in France and Germany.
Most federal spending is nondiscretionary, meaning that it goes to entitlements (such as Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance) and to pay the interest on the national debt.
Such reductions would be necessary to help pay for Trump's promises to lower taxes and raise defense spending, without cutting entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare.
