He is right that a whole raft of government agencies need to be abolished for the sole reason they are unconstitutional. A great number of our headaches come from them.
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The FDA? This outfit has crooned about saving ten thousand lives by releasing a drug from testing. This actually means that in the year preceding that, when the drug was available, ten thousand people died from the problem it could cure. At the very least it needs serious reform.
The Constitution provides for the regulation of interstate trade, and I imagine we would maintain some minimal federal standards, e.g., for truth in labeling. We cannot underestimate the potential for effectiveness of industry groups. The AMA, for example, could take up responsibility for reviewing drugs. I think most people in and out of the medical profession would welcome this.
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The IRS? We need to abolish the sixteenth and seventeenth amendment and go back to a federalist proportional representation, proportional pay system. The federal government should create a budget then each of the states should pay the portion of the budget proportional to it’s representation in congress. Returning senators to state legislature control would result in more control on government spending.
I have been a supporter of a federal Fair Tax, but I like this idea better. Let the states come up with their own Fair Taxes, if that's what they want.
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We do not need a government as large as we have today, further it has grown beyond the ability for one person or group of people to effectively control it. We have people that we call bureaucrats that are essentially Lords of private fiefs who have no accountability and yet tremendous authority.
A vast quantity of federal laws, rules and regulations are promulgated by bureaucrats, and routinely rubber-stamped by Congress where needed. Offhand, I recall something like 900 pages per day. I am actually frightened by the vast quantity of laws on our books which, I am sure, make every citizen a criminal to some extent and expose us to tyranny. And those who don't think that our agencies have a decided socialist tilt are blind.
Ron Paul is not wrong about all things.
I don't think people recognize what a marvelous country the US could be with more power vested in the states.
And the facts that the only group of people that doctors hate more than the AMA are pharma marketers shouldn't thrown any sort of monkey wrench in your plan. Nor that the fact that the AMA receives a sizable chunk of money from pharma companies every year for providing physician data to the companies.
The simplicity with which the Paulites are approaching these problems gives me more pause than Paul's ideas.