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Everyone wants to starve the beast. But I want a nation that I can be proud of with an infrastructure that is safe and up to date and an efficient government that works for the people and not global business.

The government workers (and especially the political elite) should have benefits and compensation and pensions comparable to the private sector. If we are going to force private sector laborers to work until they are 70, then civil service, cops and military should not be retiring in their 40s.

I’m willing to pay taxes to accomplish that as long as they are not funding corruption at the bottom (welfare) and at the top (corporate crony welfare) and waste in government. Lets reward whistle-blowers as a start. The military too needs cut significantly to force a culture of efficiency in the system. Anyone who has served is aware their is no single entity in the world that wastes more billions than the DOD. Our defense of the world on our dime needs to end now. Other nations who benefit from our defense should be paying their way.

This - Everyone wants to starve the beast. is not mutually exclusive with this - But I want a nation that I can be proud of with an infrastructure that is safe and up to date and an efficient government that works for the people and not global business.

Then you should support a return to our Constitution's ORIGINAL TAX PLAN,as our founders intended it to operate. Keep in mind that our founder’s original tax plan was so successful that by the year1835 America was manufacturing everything from steam powered ships, to clothing spun and woven by powered machinery and the national debt [which included part of the revolutionary war debt] was completely extinguished and Congress enjoyed a surplus in the federal treasury from tariffs, duties, and customs. And so, by an Act of Congress in June of 1836 all surplus revenue in excess of $ 5,000,000 was decided to be distributed among the states, and eventually a total of $28,000,000 was distributed among the states by the rule of apportionment in the nature of interest free loans to the states to be recalled if and when Congress decided to make such a recall.

JWK

“…a national revenue must be obtained; but the system must be such a one, that, while it secures the object of revenue it shall not be oppressive to our constituents.”___ Madison, during the creation of our Nation’s first revenue raising Act