Sounds like good news to me.
Evidently the deal breaker was Coburns insistence that Social Security reform should be part of the package. But I also haven’t liked what I’ve heard about insistence on raising taxes.
And I don’t think any of them are really looking at some of the stuff that needs to be done—like eliminating the Department of Education, lock stock and barrel. And the EPA. And that’s just for starters.
What candidate is even talking about eliminating agencies? Oh it is the Kooks. Paul and Johnson.
Yep, there are whole departments of the federal government that could go away tomorrow and citizens would notice no differences in their lives but more freedom and prosperity.
Yep. The economy is like a 1000-pound human. We need Dick Gregory’s, not frugal gourmets.
These fools are arguing over which condiments to stop using while allowing the patient to gorge on cheese steaks and ice cream.
I am all for leaving Obama out there all by himself to defend running a $1.5 Trillion deficit for years to come. The GOP should not be negotiating on a budget that cannot be balanced, it only gives the President and jis party cover for the indefensible.
But the only way we will get real reform is if the people rise up and demand it.
We do not need the NEA. We do not even need the IRS. We can let the states collect taxes and forward the money to the Treasury (though I support repeal of the income tax in favor of a consumption tax that supports a federal government about 25% to 30% the size of the one we have now). The people will have to demand accountability, and we will have to demand that these agencies prove their value or be disbanded. Most of them need to be disbanded because they have no calculable value.