Posted on 06/24/2013 12:58:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Never was a big Santorum fan—but right in this one.
Can we ditch the NSA while we’re at it. After all, isn’t it just doing the job the CIA is supposed to be doing?
IRS...NSA...EPA...DHS...ATF...
There’s more to add...
Defund 100% and release of biometrics of all full timers and contractors.
Santorum should have been our Presidential nominee. Light years better than Romney.
At what point do politicians stop talking about it, and start doing something about it, lots of talk from lots of people but no action.
Talk...Talk...Talk that’s all we get on issues of importance to Americans, on issues important to LGBT, illegals, and money to al-queada we get plenty of action, go figure!
RE: At what point do politicians stop talking about it, and start doing something about it, lots of talk from lots of people but no action.
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Santorum can only talk about it, he’s not elected into office now. Same is true with Sarah Palin, who made a similar remark.
He can LOBBY for it, but that’s about it.
Our government spends a half trillion dollars on contractors every year.
Granted some are necessary but I’m guessing we could get rid of 2/3 of them and the agencies they work for and we would be just fine.
However a lot of those contractors are politically connected and making lots of very wealthy government officials.
Add NEA and DOE. Maybe Agriculture.
Right? This is cutting off our nose to spite our face. After the IRS is dissolved, then the next 5 years and $400 billion is spent creating a new policing agency to enforce what, the "fair tax"? Do you actually believe the government will have no tax administration? Do you really want to start over? Clean house? yes; start over? we can't afford it.
Talk, talk, talk is just delaying tactics. Makes ‘em look like they are doing something, and then they don’t do nuthin’, or exactly the wrong thing for the country, but the right thing for the political machine they answer to. Whatever they do it’s to benefit a hand that feeds them, not ours.
I voted for him. I liked the way he talked street level economics without pretending to be one of us. The guy on the factory floor doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about capital gains taxes but he does spend a lot of time thinking about our insane method of taxing manufactured goods because he’s the one shutting down production every 3 months and counting everything in the building for tax purposes.
He wanted to eliminate those taxes and tax the finished product rather than the product at every manufacturing step. He said he wanted to cut capital gains taxes by I think it was 12% so the Romneyites went nuts and screamed its not enough because Romney promised to cut them by 17%. I think Santorum’s combined cuts would have produced more revenue through job creation and production.
He was my 3rd choice after Bachmann and Cain but I came to feel that he should have been my first choice.
It’s easy to say but query whether Santorum really means it or is it just a cheap political line. I remember back when Regan was running, and he’d go on about eliminating Departments of Labor and Education, and it plays well to the crowd but I don’t think he seriously considered it for a second. I appreciate the sentiment but at this point I’d just be content with some substantial reductions (and not just less projected growth) in the size of government, and I’m tired of the soundbites about “if I’m President I’ll get rid of XYZ Department.” Right . . . sure you will (won’t).
RE: “if I’m President I’ll get rid of XYZ Department.” Right . . . sure you will (won’t).
I don’t think a President on his own can eliminate ANY department that was created by an act of Congress and signed into law by a previous President.
In other words, the President can only use his bully pulpit. The LAW TO ELIMINATE A DEPARTMENT still has to come from Congress.
“In other words, the President can only use his bully pulpit. The LAW TO ELIMINATE A DEPARTMENT still has to come from Congress.”
You’re right. But a few lines in a stump speech during campaign season hardly constitutes aggressive lobbying by a President against Congress, and if the President REALLY doesn’t like the department XYZ he doesn’t have to request funding for it or make appointments to it. The President is not a potted plant.
Not sure how it will go down politically if a President suddenly REFUSES to request for funding for all the following departments: Education, Energy, Commerce and EPA.
As for the IRS, it would be totally impractical for him to not request funding for it to enforce the laws. Like it or not, the monstrosity called the IRS is a creation of the legislative Frankenstein called Congress.
In other words, elimination of the IRS *and* the total overhaul of our tax laws will have to come side by side — SIMULTANEOUSLY.
I can’t see it done any other way.
The amount of money the IRS sent to alien workers in 2011 totals more than $46 million in tax refunds.
These 23,994 unauthorized alien workers all listed this one address in Atlanta, Georgia. You can view the audit report here by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
CNN reports there were 10 address from around the country and 4 of them were in Atlanta.
The IRS sent 11,284 refunds worth a combined $2,164,976 to unauthorized alien workers at a second Atlanta address; 3,608 worth $2,691,448 to a third; and 2,386 worth $1,232,943 to a fourth.
The IRS has has been knowingly facilitating the ability for Unauthorized Aliens to work illegally in the United States for almost fourteen years according to the Treasury Inspector General’s Semiannual Report to Congress.
Other locations for singular addresses used simultaneously by thousands of unauthorized alien workers are as follows:
•Oxnard, Calif, where the IRS sent 2,507 refunds worth $10,395,874
•Raleigh, North Carolina, where the IRS sent 2,408 refunds worth $7,284,212
•Phoenix, Ariz., where the IRS sent 2,047 refunds worth $5,558,608
•Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where the IRS sent 1,972 refunds worth $2,256,302
•San Jose, Calif., where the IRS sent 1,942 refunds worth $5,091,027
•Arvin, Calif., where the IRS sent 1,846 refunds worth $3,298,877
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http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2012reports/201242081fr.pdf
Nice idea, but there are a lot of other things that could be done that have a chance of passage in Congress. Number 1 should be huge budget cuts for the IRS starting with the millions in bonuses. Let Democrats try to defend paying IRS staff bonuses. I would be running those idiotic videos of IRS employee line dancing and playing Star Trek on TV and asking if this is why they deserve bonuses.
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