Comments on: Spending Cuts: Better Ideas Needed from the GOP http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/06/05/spending-cuts-better-ideas-needed-from-the-gop/ Questions through the veil of ignorance Thu, 17 May 2012 04:17:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Carlos http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/06/05/spending-cuts-better-ideas-needed-from-the-gop/comment-page-1/#comment-226621 Carlos Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:19:05 +0000 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/06/05/spending-cuts-better-ideas-needed-from-the-gop/#comment-226621 Here's a novel idea:  Why not fund what is authorized by the Constitution, and eliminate all the rest of the funding?  And make Congress a citizens' congress again instead of an elites' country club?   Yes, I know, unemployment would temporarily more than double, but when the welfare employees of the government got used to the idea of having to produce an actual product, and businesses could actually start spending money saved by extremely lower taxes, maybe a capitalist system really would break out! But, of course, that's anathema to the socialist glorious leader's plans so it won't happen, but what if? Here’s a novel idea:  Why not fund what is authorized by the Constitution, and eliminate all the rest of the funding?  And make Congress a citizens’ congress again instead of an elites’ country club?   Yes, I know, unemployment would temporarily more than double, but when the welfare employees of the government got used to the idea of having to produce an actual product, and businesses could actually start spending money saved by extremely lower taxes, maybe a capitalist system really would break out!

But, of course, that’s anathema to the socialist glorious leader’s plans so it won’t happen, but what if?

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