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To: billorites
In the United States, fiscal conservatives since the Reagan era have called for closing down government bureaucracies without ever managing to do so. Yet in just five months, Argentina's new leader has shuttered government agencies wholesale, doing away with — among others — the ministries of culture, infrastructure, and diversity. All told, 18 government departments have been reduced to nine, and the government announced this month that it plans to pull the plug on Télam, the state-run news agency.

Yep, cut government in half, that's a good solution.

3 posted on 05/23/2024 11:08:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Does anyone here have any friends or family on the ground in Argentina who can verify if theres been a real change or if the media has been blowing smoke as they usually do?


7 posted on 05/23/2024 11:43:33 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can't be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: 1Old Pro
Cut in 1/2 Bump!

I wrote this in Sep 2021 (and far before)


It's TIME to #DownSize_DC!

Restore the Constitution!Size DC!

Close entire Rogue/Un-Constitutional Departments, including their SWAT Teams.

We could eliminate 1/2 of all the jobs in Washington DC, and Nobody outside of DC would ever miss them.

13 posted on 05/23/2024 1:45:05 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: 1Old Pro
> Yep, cut government in half, that's a good solution start.

Next cut half of what’s left, at the federal level, but with legislation designed to make it easy for states wanting to take over - and themselves pay for - those programs. Then reduce federal taxation by about 2/3 of the value of Fed spending being reduced. So states can choose to increase their taxes somewhat to pay for picking up some dropped Fed programs, without increasing their citizens total Fed + state taxes. If they want to pick up more than that they’ll either have to be more efficient than Feds were in delivering the programs, or will have to increase total taxes in their state. States that don’t pick anything get a nice total tax cut. States wanting to pick up formerly Fed programs can pick and choose from the ‘skilled’ pool of laid off Fed workers. The legislation should establish one new Fed program, if such doesn’t already exist: an agency existing just to honestly maintain (not hype) former Fed employee records and simplify potential, non-Fed, employers accessing and searching them. Not for providing any monitory benefits to ex-Fed workers. May the state competition start! And the 1/3 of program matching Fed revenues not cut gets redirected towards either balancing the Fed budget or, ideally, starting to pay down Fed debt principal.

And, in thanks, zero tariffs on chainsaws from Argentina! One those currently very busy mechanical beavers find time, encourage them to franchise Argentinian chainsaw factories here.

21 posted on 05/23/2024 7:00:45 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
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