What Issue Is Most Important to You on Election Day?

Let's face it. Government employee excesses are only the tip of the iceberg. (According to the Washington Times, there are 2.15 million federal employees, so laying off 30% or 600,000 of them--- assuming they earn about $100K each--- would only reduce the FY10 federal deficit of $1.3 trillion by only 5%!) It would be good (and democratic!) if Americans could vote on salary/force reductions in other sectors of the economy, not just in government. I've noticed that over recent years that tradespeople and store employees deliver less service and obviously, with socialist policies like minimum wage regulations, are being paid more. Break the unions, by all means, but let's also abolish minimum wage laws and hourly and age restrictions on labor. This nation's greatest growth was during the period between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Americans worked much harder and longer during those days, but they created more and built our country into the powerhouse it is today. Americans understood at that time that they were responsible for their own health and welfare and as a result, developed the traits of self-reliance that carried us through two world wars and a major economic depression. This is the America we should return to now. But to do that we need to dismantle the entire socialist welfare state, eliminate social security and medicare, scale back public education, and terminate government's foray into libraries, museums, and other sinkholes. Social security and medicare is where the real money is. Eliminate those and we become solvent again.

A trillion here, a trillion there and before you know it we're talking about some real money. The debt service on 1.3 trillion dollars alone is worth the effort.

There is, at least, 15% of federal programs that can be completely done away with due to overlap and ineffectiveness.

We haven't even talked about the biggest boondoggle of them all, the IRS. Get rid of the Swiss cheese, progressive income tax, altogether. It takes a small army just to interpret out tax code. Take 1000 IRS agents and you have 1200 interpretations.

In the last 33 years, I have been audited for IRS foul-ups. Both times some well-meaning flunky has "recalculated" our return and increased our refund by $4000 and $5500. A year and a half later, we got an notice of audit. Someone else had recalculated our taxes again to within $200 of our original filing. We figure it is about time for another screw up to waste our time and money is about due.

A simple flat tax. No fuss, no frills. Use a simple pencil and paper calculation. For those of us that don't have enough fingers and toes, pocket calculators are cheap these days.

Want to break a union? Let the union members do it for you. Make it illegal for employers to deduct anything from you paycheck except State and Federal taxes and levies. Without the check-off, the union, not the employer would be forced to collect the dues, reducing the amount of money available for political spending.

The check-off is almost like a hidden tax. You never see the money, so you don't miss it. When members have to make their dues payments in person month after month. Take away the union shop and make unionism voluntary, too, and the members will do the rest.