Defense spending included? How about tax receipts? Government should get out of abortion and marriage? Eliminating Federal and State regulations on abortion and marriage would be conservative? Criminalization of drugs?
See how complex it is?
Eliminate overseas nation-building and foreign welfare aid.
How about tax receipts?
Stop diverting SS/Medicare funds to all sorts of Big Government boondoggles.
End the income and payroll taxes straight up.
Government should get out of abortion and marriage?
Government should not be allowed to define what constitutes marriage.
Eliminating Federal and State regulations on abortion and marriage would be conservative?
Federal, yes. State, depends on the State.
Criminalization of drugs?
Well, since gluttony is bad, overeating should be prohibited and consumption of food by individuals should be regulated, with certain "bad" foods prohibited outright.
When do we start regulating food?! /sarc
Not at all complicated. Does the Constitution grant FedGov the authority to:
1. Promote baby murder? No, it’s a STATE matter and should revert there. At least at the State level, it could at last be treated as the murder it is.
2. Promote marriage? NO. That should be a RELIGIOUS matter, between the couple and their church and their God. Could the STATES ban “marriage” between same sex couples, children, adults and children, humans and goats? Yes.
3. Ban grown folks (Americans) from ingesting/inhaling things of which the Government disapproves? Not only NO, but HELL NO.
Not complex at all, is it? The CONSERVATIVE position to all the above is, NO, government (especially FedGov) HAS NO SUCH AUTHORITY, period.
Defense spending... well, since defense of our borders is Constitutionally MANDATED, what do you think? Tax receipts? Get rid of the income tax, put FedGov on a diet and then talk to me. Right now 90 percent of what FedGov does, INCLUDING your precious war on some drugs, is flat out UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Shrink government to its Constitutional limits, then we can see what else we want to get rid of.