[TBP]

Indeed, his proposals to cut $1 trillion from the national debt and eliminate five federal departments are bold ideas

What's so bold about eliminating 5 Federal departments? I have 9 I want to eliminate.

[NVDave]

So do I.

Neither one of us is running for POTUS. We don’t even have a national audience.

In the netherworld of DC, what Paul is proposing is truly radical, I assure you. Closing even *one* department would be a highly radical agenda.

The one department with the smallest constituency might be the Dep’t of Ag. Let’s say that we transferred all the food stamp/EBT crap over to HHS, the national forests over to Dep’t of Interior, and then shut down the Dep’t of Ag. Phase out all ag subsidies in, oh, five years, declining payments by 20% each year.

You’d still hear a hue and cry like nothing we’ve ever heard. Go back and look at what the state employees did in Wisconsin last year... and multiply it by, oh, 100. That’s what it will be like the first time we credibly talk about shutting down a whole federal department.

So talking about eliminating three or five... that’s beyond radical. To DC insiders, it’s “holy crap, get the butterfly nets, that guy is a *loon*!” crazy.

[Democrat_media]

The top 2 government departments I want to eliminate are the EPA and the IRS.