[djsherin]

I couldn’t agree with you more.

And we could enforce our border with the men currently over seas in countries like Germany and Japan. I’d go further and say to hell with all “entitlement spending” which makes a little over half of the budget. Then start cutting out all the unconstitutional crap like education and transportation and leave it to the states (as the 10th Amendment says) and private sector (as it should be). Drilling here would mean less foreign oil and the fuel and money saved not having to ship here.

With all that gone, we wouldn’t need socialist payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, corporate taxes and all the other BS, and income taxes would be significantly reduced (although perhaps not immediately to pay off the national debt).

Bush really messed up, it pains me to say.

[TheBattman]

A Constitutional Federal Budget would be well under half the current budget.

So cut taxes by 30% the first few years, and then back to the actual constitutional spending (no “extending debt”). Pay off most of the federal debt in those first few years, and then require (another Amendment) a balanced budget. One that does not allow end-run creative financing to make it look balanced.

Any tax increase (including fees that they don’t call taxes) must be approved by 2/3 majority of both houses, and then receive a majority vote of citizen voters.