Lets cut the parasite government employees salaries and benefits to the bone. Lets go through the blue pages and reduce that listing to just one single page with one column. Make everyone go out and get a job. No more benefits for parasites. Except those who are truly handicapped and unable to provide for themselves. Protect the free market, fight fraud, settle disputes peacefully among the citizens and there really isn’t much else for them to do, other than to maintain the militia. Start by cashing out the state pension fund and converting it to a 401k. Then no more lifetime health benefits with gold plated coverage. Then cut taxes 50 percent, repeat process.
If you hear of a Republican governor taking my advice and doing the following, ping me.
DEFUND THE ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
States invoke their 10th amendment rights and tell their citizens to stop paying Federal Income Tax.
States make it illegal for companies to take Federal Income Tax out of employee wages.
States then tax their own citizens the appropriate amount to pay for the only things the Constitution allows the Feds to do - protect the borders and insure free trade across state lines - and then pass that along to the Feds. (Divide what border protection & trade regulation costs by the total number of US citizens then multiply that number by the states population.)
If the Federal government still refuses to protect our borders, then the states can keep that money and do it themselves.