>>>>I’m curious. Why keep Agriculture, the Interior, Commerce, and HHS? They’re no better than the ones you’re abolishing.<<<<<<<
I would keep them in a severely scaled back form. Ag includes the USDA,which insures food safety.... Interior includes the Natl Parks......Commerce the census..........HHS includes Social Security/Medicare which are untouchable.
Post Roads are permitted but not required as an enumerated power. Why keep the DOT. It’s primary role is to turn congressmen into prostitutes.
The swing/moderate congressmen know that the big entitlements are a bad idea and would vote against them ... except they get their own Luisianna Purchase.
Instruct all collectors of transportation taxes (oil companies, airports, etc) to pay those taxes directly to the state in which collected. Sunset all Federal transportation taxes in 5 years. Theat gives states the ability to pass replacement taxes (or not) and keep the money.
Winners:
Big Airports (Chicago, Atlanta, NY, NJ, etc).
State governors, legislators, lobbyists.
Taxpayers
Airplane passengers
Highway users
Small construction companies into maintenance.
Mass transit advocates in states where it is popular.
Blue states who are always shortchanged and pay more in than they get back.
Red states that chafe at the strings attached.
Losers:
Beltway lobbyists, moderate congressmen.
North American Highway and other expensive, grandiose plans.
The Mexican owned cement company that has the biggest share of cement in the USA and worldwide.
Other big global construction companies.
Mass transit fans in states where they are not popular.