The Deficit Commission’s Trial Balloon: A Few Good Ideas, and Two Horrible Ones that Deserve to Die
There needs to be a cap on taxes, period and everybody needs to have some skin in the game. How about 15% flat tax, no deductions, no exclusions – I don’t care if you’re on SSI or welfare or disabled or own a big house or no house at all. You live here, you pay. The government cannot under any conditions spend more than that 15%.
I suspect a whole lot of people will have second thoughts about things that cost a lot and are of marginal utility (Department of Education.) Want more NASA? Let’s cut some Agricultural subsidies. Want higher pay for Federal workers? What will you give up to get it?
There isn’t much they do that I would pay for, voluntarily. Military? Yes, but let’s have a long, hard look at expensive weapons and high ranking officers. I don’t know why we should have ANY luxury business jets for VIP transport, AF 1 excepted. CDC, OK. Agricultural subsidies are a hard sell and certainly none should go to agribusiness.
Let’s spend it like it was all our own money, because it is. Let the UN solicit for funds and ditto for Foreign Aid. I’m disgusted at the announcement that the PA got $150 Million from us. I’d rather flush it down the toilet than have those murdering thugs get a dime.
