Rand Paul has been trying for 10 years with his penny plan, and more recently, this one.
Transfer payments say the budget can never be balanced.
How ‘bout electing a President who, a few hours after victory, announces a press conference announcing the following EO:
“Effective tomorrow, every agency in the federal government, with the exception of the military, has 10% less funds at their disposal. If you cannot provide equal or better service within this new budget constraint, I will replace you with someone who can. Have a nice day!”
I have heard enough horror stories about waste to know this is doable.
Let’s see how Paul’s suggestion is received when the Republicans takes control.
I expect, well, nothing at all.
Going through the motions.
It’s time to delete whole Fed agencies from the budget.
The bottom line is that Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters need to support their new, Trump-endorsed STATE lawmakers in 2023 in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional, Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824
Once unconstitutional federal taxes are stopped then the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues (imo) that the states can use to start their own social spending programs, instead of having citizens continue to rely on the unconstitutional spending programs of the very corrupt federal government according to the Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States [emphasis added] wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc." —Thomas Jefferson to James Sullivan, 1807.
"They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation, which embrace every thing in the territory of a state not surrendered to the general government [emphasis added]. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, and health laws, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and others, which respect roads, fences, &c. are component parts of state legislation, resulting from the residuary powers of state sovereignty. No direct power over these is given to congress, and consequently they remain subject to state legislation, though they may be controlled by congress, when they interfere with their acknowledged powers." —Justice Joseph Story, Article I, Section 10, Clause 2, 1833.
From the congressional record, a statement by Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment concerning the vast powers of the states to serve the people:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
And to make such changes permanent, all the states need to effectively secede from the very corrupt, unconstitutionally big federal government by repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments (16&17A).
In fact, I challenge the states to process 16&17A repeal amendment faster than Pelosi scandalously rammed unconstitutional (imo) Obamacare through the House, the repeal amendment strictly limited to repealing those amendments, arguably little or no discussion required.
Insights welcome.
This proposal makes it too hard to launder money. Down in flames - oh the humanity!
Stopping the crazy deficit spending is the only way to put the brakes on inflation.
Inflation isn’t because of Putin, but it also isn’t because of the sanctions against Russia.
Something like sanctions can increase the price of, say, oil, but if there were the same number of dollars out there, other things would have to compensate by going down in price (because people couldn’t afford to buy the same amounts of both gasoline and other goods that they had been buying before).
What caused this inflation was simply all the money that was created (or “printed”, as people say, but calling it that is sort of an anachronism in this electronic age) during the Covid lockdowns and simply handed out to people for doing nothing.