The Two Questions Mark Levin Would Ask At Tuesday's GOP Presidential Debate

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Shut down the job killing regulatory agencies and preempt the negative responses with positive campaigns.

Real welfare reform.

Foreign aid ONLY to true allies.

Close Dept. of Education, let states run schools.

Ban public employee unions.
They can’t strike because nobody would miss their “service”.

Shut down “green energy” subsidies.

Here's the two questions:

1. "The Constitution and our economic system are inextricably linked. What would you do to strengthen our Constitution and individual liberty?"

2. "We have over $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities. I want to know exactly what you're going to do to start to address that, particularly given all the pressure by the media, the left, and even in the Republican Party to ignore it. That is what is going to destroy the future of this country and future generations."

Shut down about 9 Federal departments.

End all corporate welfare.

Reduce individual and corporate taxes, reduce the payroll tax (while lifting the cap), reduce the capital gains tax.

Ban public employee unions.

Allow any American employee to have his or her retirement taxes in a private account.

Repeal Obamacare. Make sure everyone can have an MSA, allow sale of insurance to any customer, regardless of state lines. Grant individuals (and other organizations) the same tax break for buying insurance that your employer gets.

Until we get that done, give a universal waiver.

School choice: vouchers, tax credits, and whatever else we can use to create the widest possible choice.

Secure the borders. Fencing, electronic monitoring, a vastly increased Border Patrol and ICE, backed by National Guard troops.

Cut off all benefits to illegals. Make employing illegals a felony offense with jail time. Prosecute officials of sanctuary cities and cut off their funds. Halt all H-1B visas until all qualified American in STEM fields who want jobs are employed.

Revoke EVERY Obama executive order.

Then have lunch.

A question probing the candidates' understanding of and loyalty to the Constitution is excellent.

Consider this:

Excerpt from the 1801 Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. . . . About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."

Contrast current Democrat Party "progressive" policies which, in effect, undo all the monumental work accomplished by the Founders on behalf of liberty and leave the law afloat and without anchor, relying, as of old, on mere men and women.
From Page xv of "Our Ageless Constitution," here are excerpted words from President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation of December 10, 1832:
"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution . . .? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault. . . . No, we did not err! . . . The sages . . . have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent* Constitutional compact. . . . The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity. . . ."
*Underlining added for emphasis
And, it was Thomas Jefferson who used another metaphor with reference to the Constitution when he indicated that "the People" must "bind them (government) by the chains of the Constitution." In another instance, he declared: "It was intended to lace them up straitly within the enumerated powers. . . ."

To ask Republican candidates of the Year 2016 to explain their understanding of the Constitution's importance and of their own fidelity to its limitations on power might be revealing.

Cruz has spoken to these issues endlessly, and being a Constitutional scholar, is probably the best candidate to deal with them.

I’d love to see several agencies defunded and scaled way back, if not eliminated altogether. I know there would never be a bill passed by a bi-partisan Congress to take out the EPA, DHS, and others, but even to stop all hirings when people leave, retire, or whatever, would decrease the size. And, as Cruz has repeatedly stated, to totally shut down the IRS. That would be an enormously huge savings to the American people. Paying these people 6 figure salaries to destroy our lives is cannibalism.

I look at with interest at two possible choices, both Trump and Cruz right now.