The Empirical Case for a Much Smaller Public Sector

Townhall.com ^ | February 23, 2015 | Daniel J. Mitchell

[Kaslin]

As a fiscal policy economist who believes in individual liberty and personal responsibility, I have two goals.

1. Replace the corrupt and punitive internal revenue code with a simple and fair flat tax that raises necessary revenue in the least-destructive and least-intrusive manner possible.

2. Shrink the size of the federal government so that it only funds the core public goods, such as national defense and rule of law, envisioned by America’s Founding Fathers.

Needless to say, I haven’t been doing a great job. The tax code seems to get worse every year, and even though we’ve made some progress in recent years on spending, the long-run outlook is still very grim because there’s hasn’t been genuine entitlement reform.

[stephenjohnbanker]

State by state revolt is our only hope to cut the federal govt.

[MadIsh32]

No, people standing up and saying “no more” is how you do it

There are so many millionaires in this country who fund political campaigns whose entire income is based on a bigger federal gov’t

It will never get smaller

[stephenjohnbanker]

” No, people standing up and saying “no more” is how you do it”

How many, and complain to whom? The GOPe controls the House & Senate, and the crony “Corporatists” OWN them.