Quote Originally Posted by Devils Horse View Post
A good start would be a budget of some kind...any kind that is not a trillion dollars underwater. Just the interest on our national debt is probably a few million a minute right now, we can't afford to borrow more money.

Okay, here's where I'd start. Eliminate the Dept of Homeland Security, the Dept of Education, HUD, several other government alphabets, 20% cut for every civil servant making over $100,000 a year, put government sponsored unemployment back to 6 months or so instead of the 2 or 3 years it is now. I could go on for a long time here, but I'm too lazy.

If the Democrats were serious about everyone paying their fair share they'd be trying to implement a flat tax rate across the board. Eliminate the IRS (another gigantic bureaucracy) and all of us pay the same percentage.

That will NEVER fly, the Dems need government dependents' votes to stay in power. Obama phones, free money, etc. buys plenty of votes...maybe even that magical 2% Obama won by. You think?
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Oddly I agree with you mostly with the exception of the flat tax, nobody will ever convince me that moving the tax burden from the folks who can most afford it to the folks who can least afford it is the right thing to do.... How does it help to take taxes out of one hand of somebody and put food stamps or some other government assistance in the other... It does seem there are way too many folks drawing their paychecks from tax dollars though... I would add legalizing drugs and putting a stop to the so called 'war on drugs', I personally believe the war on drugs is doing us more damage than the drugs themselves... Even the southern border might be a little cheaper to police if the drug smugglers were taken out of the picture and we allowed our farmers to cultivate it as a cash crop.