The Federal Government should be able to EASILY function with half the current budget... but it would mean surrendering a lot of the tools it uses to keep power.
Return to the
constitutional bounds of the Federal Government and there is suddenly over $1 trillion less tax extraction necessary... that is over $1 Trillion back in the economy, to pay towards mortgages, to give to charities, to do what the private sector does better anyway.
We could have a military that would be unchallengeable, a currency that is more stable, a medical system that is second to none (and not socialized), and an economy that is not subject to the whims of foreign dictators.
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.