A first step


Cut all taxes and fees by ten percent. Cut all spending by twenty percent.
We can argue over how to reign in the monster government. That is something that would require years.

But there are still things we SHOULD be able to agree on when it comes to government finance.

First, just because an agency didn't spend all the money it had budgeted, it's still a spending increase if the amount is more than was spent the previous year. It's not a spending reduction UNLESS the spending is less than the previous year.

Second, spending increases should not be "offset" with higher taxes. These are (at least) two completely different issues, and the only people who want to "combine" the issues are the same people who don't want you to know what is happening.

Third, the first items to be cut SHOULD NEVER BE the highly visible public items that people have been conditioned to expect as high priority from the government.

Any of these three would get jail time for someone who tried them in the private sector, it's only government that is excused.

With these three ideas firmly in place, and before we start talking about which government programs are "necessary," let's lay out a simple rule to stimulate the economy.

Cut ALL taxes and fees by ten percent. Cut ALL government spending by twenty percent.

Let the politicos argue over which bits to preserve and expand. These are the two simple numbers that should concern us.

Then we should worry about which programs threaten our liberty.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Sat - July 5, 2008 at 11:28 PM  Tag


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