Posted on 11/09/2008 1:21:30 PM PST by narses
A Contract to Limit Government
1 - Limit Members of Congress to Social Security and Medicare for their retirement benefits
2 - Limit Members of Congress to Medicare for health care benefits while serving
3 - Limit Members of Congress to three terms in each House, cumulative
4 - Limit total Federal taxes per individual to no more than 15% of gross income
5 - Limit Federal rules on education to funding only.
6 - Make the Federal education funding portable at the choice of the parent/guardian.
7 - Limit access to our border to legal immigrants and citizens only.
8 - Limit contributions to Federal Political campaigns to Natural Citizens only.
9 - Limit Federal Spending to a balanced budget outside of wartime.
10 - Limit Lawyers negative impact on society with meaningful tort and legal reform.
Sadly the UN issue is not on the radar for most people. We need a way big broad tent that still gets conservatives elected. In my opinion.
Well yes. :)
I agree with you on 7 of the 10.
Term limits are unconstitutional.
I’m not clear on what you mean in #5 and #6. The federal education department should be abolished. Period.
I would call it ‘A Contract With the American Citizen.’
You have to save it to a always connected server or it will appear and disappear when you are online/offline
any ideas?
Absolutely send to the RNC. And for those who participated in the campaign and saw wasted opportunities, please write a snail mail letter to them with specific details of exactly what went on at the state/county levels. Paid employees are not going to tell them the real truth.
Narses, thanks so much for posting something proactive. The doom and gloom stuff only serves to dispirit us which is obviously not helpful at this critical time.
Eliminate environmental and other regulations that substantially take the exclusive use of private property and direct it toward use for a public purpose or benefit without just compensation.
Term limits to 3 in one House and cumulative of 4 terms, is not reasonable, IMO. I think this factor doomed the movement for term limits the last time it was proposed in 1994.
We cannot have a functioning federal government which has a complete turnover every 6-12 years.
A more reasonable list would be limiting the congressmen/women to 5 terms, and limiting the senators to 3 terms. This would still yield a quick turnover, and no person could stay in Washington DC for longer than a maximum of 28 years. Most would stay only about 10-18 years. That is enough to have a mix of experience and newcomers - which will yield less cronyism, less corruption, more representative government, etc..
What do you folks think about this???
I appreciate the points made in the OP. However, I will point out that the existing contract to limit government, the wrongly ignored federal Constitution, which the Founders made to intentionally limit the powers of the federal government, would practically shut down the federal government if the people would demand that DC politicians respect it.
The image you want to post must be on the web somewhere.
It can not reside on your home computer.
You have to get an account with “photobucket”
or some similar service.
Can we stick in, near the top, that federal employees are forbidden to get any salaries or benefits that exceed that given to an equivalent ranked soldier?
TERM LIMITS
It’s not about them anymore. It’s about America and it’s people.
Go to Photobucket. Make an account, upload your pic there then there will several including html there for you to choose.
Eliminate the federal and state funding of abortion.
Regarding #5 and #6: WHAT federal funding of “education”? Show me where in the Constitution the people delegated to the federal government any authority to do ANYTHING regarding “education.”
Change #5 to “Eliminate all federal activities, policies, and spending with respect to education.”
Then eliminate #6.
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