Critics say Bob Dole's tax cuts will reduce federal revenues and increase the federal deficit unless federal spending is cut. By some estimates, Dole's plan would reduce federal revenues by $550 billion over six years.

Budget analysts find plenty of places for savings, without even touching entitlements and military spending:

• Save $20 billion by eliminating the Commerce Department and shifting the Census Bureau, the Patent and Trademark Office and a few other functions elsewhere.

• Save $30 billion by terminating the Department of Energy, moving some atomic energy defense work to the Pentagon.

• Realize $90 billion by slicing the Education Department's budget by at least one-half (even the liberal Washington Post noted in a 1994 editorial that America's schools aren't noticeably better because the department was created).

• Although the Department of Housing and Urban Development could be completely eliminated, merely halving it would save $95 billion.

Killing HUD and Education outright would save $185 billion more.

These are certainly not the only areas ripe for reduction. We could save another $50 billion by bringing home and demobilizing just half of our 100,000 troops in Europe. Ending foreign aid would save $70 billion. In addition, we could:

• Help restore a free market in agriculture and save $120 billion by eliminating at least the one-third of the Department of Agriculture's budget that goes for farm subsidies.

• End corporate subsidy programs in the Department of Transportation and realize $70 billion in savings.

• Sell $20 billion a year in federal assets -- including some of the one-third of all U.S. lands the government owns -- for $120 billion in six years.

• Save $3 billion by eliminating the Small Business Administration, which benefits fewer than one-half of 1 percent of U.S. small businesses.

These savings do not include interest savings from lower deficits, nor any increased revenue from the supply-side effect of cuts in marginal tax rates.