I posted this originally on my blog. Since nobody really sees my blog I am re-posting it here.
Its a proposal on how to save the US by downsizing the federal government back to its constitutional authorized size. I haven't put much of it on paper yet, it mostly in my head, and much work is still needed to flesh it out. Of course feedback is good, and here I know I will get good ideas, free from the stupid trolls
I will add on to it as time goes on. I will be looking for ideas on how to make it politically possible, as that will be the hardest part of it.
Here is the original post.
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I would like to introduce to the world the1/8 Project. Well at least the United States part of the world anyway.
What is the 1/8 Project?
Its a plan to downsize the US federal government to its authorized constitutional size. The founders never envisaged the gigantic size of today's federal government. For good reason. Its one of the reasons why it functions so poorly (though no large sized government will truly work well). They would be horrified by the size, scope and over reach of the federal government. I wouldn't be surprised if they would take up arms against it if they somehow came back today. They would love what citizens have done around the country but would be very disappointed by the government we are stuck with today.
So why the name the 1/8 Project?
I propose that the federal government be downsized to about 1/8 of the size of today's federal government.
So you think I want to downsize 7/8 of the federal government?
Yup.
That's insane, think of the children?
It's totally sane, and I am thinking of the children. What IS INSANE is the size of the federal government and that only the federal government can do all of the things it does.
So how does this happen?
Well, no matter how its done, it will take decades to do. The federal government is so enormous, and so many people are dependent for their income from it, it will take at least a generation to wind it down to size.
Why should we do this?
For the children, duh! But yes, for the future of the US we need to make the federal government affordable to the citizens and taxpayers. Today's government is unsustainable in the long term. Someday the credit will be gone and those huge programs will have to end immediately, probably overnight. The 1/8 Project winds down most of these programs so people can make other plans for the future. You can't do that when it ends suddenly which will happen at some point.
So where do we start?
There are plenty of ways to start. I propose to start with the low hanging fruit. There are lots of things that could end immediately. A big one would be to repeal Obamacare since it really hasn't begun. It would help to end the recession that is caused by the uncertainly of the huge amounts of regulation that comes with this really bad law. But programs like PBS, NPR, AMTRAK and things like that could be defunded at once with little impact to the majority of taxpayers. PBS and NPR wouldn't go away even, they would just have to cut their budgets or raise more private money.
Look for this blog for more parts as time goes on.
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