Reducing the Cost of Government
Sample annual cost of our government:
1792: Government annual
cost $.89 per person,
1900: Government annual
cost $8.80 per person,
a reasonable increase.
2012: Government annual
cost $7,793.33 per person,
unreasonable increase.
The curse of progressivism and excessive
interventionism (too many non defensive wars) brought about the excessive cost
of our federal government.
Government Costs that we Can and Must Reduce
Our federal government must limit itself to
the constitution, as written. This would probably solve many if not most of our
problems.
To reduce the cost of living we must reduce
the cost of government:
· We can and must stop
policing the world, (instead of policing the world we could have missionaries
reaching out to the world teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.)
· We can and we must
end our propensity to go to war at will, schools used to teach that we only
went to war in self defense,
· We can and we must
end our
occupation of about 800 bases in foreign countries, and another
article pertaining to bases,
· Terror Attacks are
likely blowback from our excessive occupation of bases around the world, both
of the above articles hint that foreign bases could be the cause of terror
attacks,
· We can and we must
end all foreign aid,
· We can and we must
end all subsidies, domestic and foreign,
· We can and we must
terminate many federal government jobs and reduce pay significantly for the few
workers that remain employed by the federal government.
Our federal
work force is compensated at a rate that is almost double the private sector.
We cannot afford this excessive overhead.
Constitution, as Written
The constitution enumerates the powers that
Congress shall have; Social
Security is not included. A Supreme Court, however - coerced by FDR
approved of Social Security in Helvering v. Davis, U.S. Supreme Court, 1937, 301 U.S.
619.
A friend at the Boulder City, Nevada,
The virtually fatal blow to the “free
market” came in 1913 with the enactment of the “Income Tax” and “The Federal
Reserve System.” Our free market was derailed.
To get our country back on track we must
phase out Social Security, and other progressive programs, repeal the “Federal
Reserve System” and replace the Income Tax with a Federal Sales Tax that
applies to all documented sales, no exceptions.
When interest rates are restored to natural
law rates almost any person can save for retirement AND beat Social Security
returns.
The constitution does not enumerate power to
Congress to finance or manage health care or education or welfare.
Medical Care
We must phase out all federal medical
programs. In the 50’s a doctor visit was $5 with no health insurance. In 1960
the cost for childbirth, without health insurance was $150 for doctor and $150
for hospital.
Education
Harvard was established over 150 years
before the constitution was adopted; the constitution (as written) gives NO
power to the Congress to finance or manage education.
The entire
“Department of Education” should be repealed; and the federal government must
end all education subsidies. Its usefulness
is questionable.
We must restore the “free market” which led
us to the healthiest, most robust economy of all time. The free market brought
us from our infancy to the greatest country of all time. But now we are dying.
We are in our 61st year without a
balanced budget; the last three presidents and their deficits:
In 2007 and 2010
our deficits were so high that if the IRS taxed us at 100% we would still have
had a deficit.
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