Thanks for the opportunity, I do not feel the need to convince you that the attempt is worth the effort.
From what I have read it would be a multi-pronged approach including but not limited to eliminating Government waste, selling Government assets like unused buildings, oil rights etc, returning Education to the states and eliminating unnecessary Government Departments.
The plan would include a reexamination of the services we perform for other Nation’s defense and the support we disproportionately give to Nato & the UN.
As the EPA, corporate tax structure and regulatory strangulation are lifted there will be a better business climate and more startups, people off welfare and paying tax is a double plus.
The border wall and the decrease in spending on illegal aliens will factor in has been shown in communities that have reversed their deficits by enforcing the existing laws and cutting 1/3 or more of their illegal population.
Its a process of putting a house in order. Trump believes that you set a difficult goal and if you don’t quite reach it you get further than you would if you set a less ambitious goal. In my life that has been true.
“Its a process of putting a house in order. Trump believes that you set a difficult goal and if you don’t quite reach it you get further than you would if you set a less ambitious goal. In my life that has been true.”
Yes! Even so-called conservatives here seem to think it can’t be done. They are like the Democrats who, when the price of oil goes out of sight, start their “chant” about “it’s foolish to start drilling now because the resultant increase in supply is at least ten years down the road.” And based on what we have seen the past couple of years, that is a bald-faced lie. So too is it a lie that we can’t fix our fiscal disorder. “The Ostrich Collection” in Washington, on both sides, don’t have the fortitude, nor the desire (because it would piss off their donors) to tackle the problem. At least Trump is willing to try and he has the right places to cut identified. I’d take an increase in the unemployment rate if those who are making it go up used to work for the government in some unneeded capacity.
Thanks for your civil, serious response. It is a little light on details but then Trump seems always unspecific about the plans. Still, thanks for a civil response.
Two numbers for the year 2015, the last full year of federal budgeting I could quickly find. The federal deficit was $18 trillion. Gross federal revenue was $3.2 trillion.
Trump says in 8 years he will eliminate the deficit.
That would be like a person making $40,000 per year paying off a $225,000 mortgage in 8 years. That is not plausible - unless the person has large assets he can unload.
Of course, the federal government, as Trump says, does have huge assets. One aircraft carrier might fetch six billion dollars on the open market but I assume Trump would not sell one to the likely high bidder, Red China.
What about the federal governments huge land and energy resources? There's potential there but the sales would need Congressional approval.
I'm doubtful Congress, or the American public, would stand for Alaska and its energy resources being purchased on the open market by Russia, China, or Saudi Arabia.
Trump could limit bids to federal land and energy to just American companies he trusts and likes but if taken off the international market the assets would generate lower bids and less revenue. In other words, a fire sale to the Goldman Sachs and others like them.
I'm sympathetic to cutting the federal government down to size. In fact, that is the only thing I can imagine reversing our death spiral. But Trump talking about it will not do it; especially when he talks just as often about expanding the federal government's responsibilities to include paying for all health care and "great communities."
I conclude Trump has no workable plan to reduce the role or expense of the federal government.