[i_robot73]

No. Deep spending cuts NOW.

No future Congress can be obligated by one from the past, so you’d reduce it 1% for one year, if at that.

We need the Fair Tax, except for the prebate; the poor should, again, beg/barter/grovel for anything from their fellow Man; not be given ‘free’ $$ from the Gov’t from the taxpayers unwilling pocket.

When everyone sees what they are paying THEN something will get done.

[Nuc 1.1]

The Penney Plan is a one percent reduction in spending per year until the budget balances. It can be enacted that way and is projected to balance the budget in six years. This is assuming the same anemic growth we have now. When we show the spine to do something about government spending I believe growth will accelerate. So the budget will balance so er. More importantly, the public will start to believe they have an ally in government again. This will result in increasing pubbie majorities in the house and senate. So the legislation will stand and the pubbies fortune will rise as long as they follow it.

I am with you on taxes. The ONLY tax this nation should have is a national retail sales tax. I don't agree with any predates etc. Everybody pays, nobody skates. BUT...the constitution will need to be amended. I have developed a number of ideas for amending the constitution. Not because the constitution is and of itself flawed, rather our present constitution is wholly inadequate to control an immoral and unjust people. Especially the political class. And I must say the only way to get these needed changes to the states for ratification will be an article five convention. Congress would never approve the amendments I have in mind because in total they will destroy the power of congress to enslave us. And also the courts and the executive branch. This must be done if we are to remain free. The national sales tax and its rate would be codified in the constitution. The ability of congress to lay and collect taxes would be revoked. Their ability to borrow money limited by requiring three quarters of the state's legislatures approval for any one borrowing authorization. There are others such as; elimination of income taxes, property taxes, and judicial review. Repeal of the seventeenth amendment. The elimination of all federal transfer payments. Amount others. All designed to put the federal government into its proper role. I know it is ambitious.