Re: "Buddy: I agree that both of your ideas are the best possible ways to deal with our current fiscal crisis. I also believe that in our current system neither is attainable."
Thanks, Peter!
I, too, believe that --- although our problems with respect to mis-management of government and chronic over-spending are *LARGE* and *ENDURING*... they are, never-the-less solvable.
But that doesn't mean the solutions will be 'easy' to see accomplished --- they will not. They will be resisted and fought tooth-and-nail by hordes of vested interests, bureaucrats, and assorted scum-suckers who benefit from Big Government.
Since the continual over-growth of government (and it's associated over-spending) has proven so CHRONIC, so enduring, so bi-partisan in it's nature... I have come to believe that the problem can best be approached as a STRUCTURAL FLAW in our system of government --- so, only to be solved with a STRUCTURAL REFORM.
(Basically, there is no incentive for elected politicians to be responsible with our money in the long-term... because the political system only responds to SHORT-TERM considerations... the 'next election cycle', etc. It discounts the interests of the NEXT generation, and the one after that, etc. Long-term over spending problems are always 'someone else's problem'... the system actually *rewards* over-spending.)
Although it certainly won't be easy (we'll need to ignore the endless diversions and red herrings that will be thrown in our paths, and the yelps of outrage from the dedicated Big Government partisans in both Parties... which constitute a majority now) --- the sooner we get about the business of making structural changes the sooner the course of the ship of state can be righted... and our future of strength and prosperity assured.
Re: " I'm interested in restraining the growth of government as well, but what are your proposing to do that?"
My #1 suggestion would be the Balanced Budget Amendment to the US Constitution.
My #2 suggestion would be to scrap the current loophole-ridden mess of a gargantuan tax code and replace it with a fairer, much simpler, flat rate system (like so much of emerging Europe has found great success with).
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