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To: SeekAndFind

Close half a dozen Federal agencies and cut another 6 in half.

Overturn Obamacare.

Overhaul ALL gov’t aid programs to focus on the truly needy.

Cancel Corporate Tax and current income tax and institute a national sales tax, with a floor for the truly needy.

Quit farm subsidies and most foreign aid.

Make Congress subject to the same laws as the rest of us and quit lifetime benefits.


33 posted on 12/02/2014 10:10:36 AM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: G Larry
Close half a dozen Federal agencies and cut another 6 in half.

That's way, way too little; you close all federal agencies except those explicitly commissioned by the constitution and those that carry out a Constitutional function (cutting them to just that Constitutional function), which would leave us with:

  1. Army
  2. Navy (Marines are a subdepartment thereof)
  3. Post Office
  4. IRS (Income taxation; unless you can argue the 16th Amendment is invalid… and win.)
  5. Dept. of Transportation (interstate commerce)
  6. Secret Service (all guard duties dropped; only concerned with counterfeiting)
  7. Coast Guard (tariffs & duties collection; regulating commerce w/ foreign nations)
Note the lack of Border Patrol — their duties should be assumed by the Army [and Navy, on coasts] and such should use military force to perform those duties.
Note the lack of FBI, Ag. Dept, DEA, FDA, BATFE, DOE, [other] DOE, DOD… etc.

Overturn Obamacare.

That could have already been done.

Overhaul ALL gov’t aid programs to focus on the truly needy.

Nope, that's not Constitutionally authorized at the federal level; check your State's Constitution.

Cancel Corporate Tax and current income tax and institute a national sales tax, with a floor for the truly needy.

I don't want a national sales tax; such a monstrosity would further cement the idea that the interstate commerce clause covers intrastate commerce that has been built upon Wickard v. Filburn, to the point where even non-commerce is assumed to be governed by it. (See: GONZALES V. RAICH)

Quit farm subsidies and most foreign aid.

Well, the above would get rid of a lot of the agencies involved w/ farm subsidies, which should make getting rid of the subsidies easier.

Make Congress subject to the same laws as the rest of us and quit lifetime benefits.

Definitely; we don't need multiple classes — while we're at it we should abolish LEO assumed immunity.

63 posted on 12/02/2014 11:14:04 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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