[Gipper08]

RSC TOP TEN



1. Make the Tax Cuts Permanent, including the repeal of the marriage-tax penalty and the death tax and pass fundamental tax reform.

2. Pass Budget Process Reform, which includes budgeting for emergencies with a rainy day fund, instituting a sunset commission for federal programs, instituting a constitutional line-item veto, and making the budget resolution carry the force of law.

3. Pass another Deficit Reduction Bill in the form of budget reconciliation, to reign in autopilot spending, which has risen from 25% of all federal spending in 1963 to 54% today, and is expected to reach nearly 60% in 2014.

4. Pass Ethics Reform that requires transparency and earmark reform that permits Members of Congress to strike earmarks on the House floor.

5. Pass the Marriage Protection Amendment, to ensure that marriage, the union of a woman and a man as husband and wife, is not redefined by activist judges.

6. Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to put our fiscal house in order.

7. Offset all emergency supplemental spending with spending reductions and offset all new programs with simultaneous, equivalent reductions in, or eliminations of, existing programs.

8. Defend the Sanctity of Human Life, which includes banning all human cloning, passing the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, promoting ethical adult stem cell research, and preventing federal funding for destructive embryonic stem cell research.

9. Pass Protections for Religious Freedom, such as the Pledge of Allegiance, the Ten Commandments, and religious expression in the public square.

10. Pass legislation that stops the raid on the Social Security Trust Fund and allows Americans to own a Personal Social Security Account.

[cpprfld]

Those top ten would be nice, but I think we would need to see a completely new set of politicians in order for it to happen.

[jackbenimble]

RSC TOP TEN

Securing our borders is curiously missing.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I feel energized again. I have something to support other than just killing Islamic fascists.

The Budget cuts that will have to be made will affect a lot of people, but will do wonders for the fiscal health of our country.

I hate it when I read articles like I read in the paper this morning about how the small deficit reduction law just passed is affecting the college loan program. Some college students will have to pay a little longer on their student loans. GIVE ME A BREAK

Budget cuts will reduce subsidies for many programs that amount to middle class welfare. I would rather reduce the size of these programs and balance the budget. However, many people will complain. Remember how Gingrich was taking the food out of the mouths of those poor kids (school lunch program).

[Willie Green]

The Contract with America Lives

Hmmmmmm.... this oughta be called "Contract with America LITE"

Where's the tort reform and term limits???

[CowboyJay]

Nice thread.

Glad there's a good man like Pence that hasn't been run-off yet.

[Conservative Goddess]

I'd love to see all that come to pass Gipper....but I don't think the Pubbies have it in them. They're a bunch of spineless wimps.

But these efforts...even if they are just window dressing, come NONE too soon. Please see: "Retirement Fund Tapped to Avoid National Debt Limit" found here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030701736_pf.html