Our country is in very serious trouble. These are my very bold personal recommendations on how to fix these massive problems.
1) Eliminate the Department of Education – it’s simply not working.
2) Eliminate the Veteran’s Administration – provide all veterans with a lifetime voucher to purchase free insurance in the private market.
3) Eliminate the Federal Communications Commission – let the free market decide which forms of communication are acceptable
4) Lower the corporate tax rate to 15 percent which will allow for an influx of new industry and job growth.
5) Introduce a federal sales tax which exempts taxes on food and basic living requirements and is highest on luxury items.
6) Drastically reduce funding to the United Nations.
7) Pass a law eliminating all foreign financial aid until our government is running budget surpluses.
8) Eliminate all financial contributions going to the International Monetary Fund.
9) Audit the Federal Reserve.
10) Audit America’s gold reserves including Fort Knox.
11) Set up a “Global Trade Freedom Organization” which includes all of the willing nations that do not engage in slave labor practices. All countries who do actually engage in slave labor practices will have to pay an import tariff to all of the countries participating in the GTFO… and yes that acronym was on purpose.
12) Secure both of our major borders using advanced technology and a strengthened border patrol.
13) Create an investigative committee to find areas of government waste and excessive government regulation run completely by professionals and business owners with a plan to create a bill eliminating excessive government waste by the year 2018.
14) Completely repeal every single part of the Affordable Care Act and provide access to Medicaid for any citizen who loses their previous insurance for one year in order to help then with the transition.
15) Allow for the option of tax-free personal healthcare accounts. This would be like a Roth IRA but for medical care.
16) Remove all restrictions for insurance to be sold across state lines.
17) Begin significant tort reform to further bring down the cost of healthcare.
18) Pass the Healthcare Price Discovery Act where all prices for all aspects of healthcare must be immediately available to the general public.
19) Increase the amount of federal money going to Federally Qualified Health Centers so that people everywhere who lose their insurance over the long term can still get baseline affordable healthcare.
20) Begin an incremental increase to the retirement age for Social Security. People currently in their 50’s would add 3 years to their retirement age. People in their 40’s would add 4 years. Those in their 30’s would add 5 years. Everyone in their 20’s or younger would be told of their retirement age at a later date.
21) Allow for oil drilling in select locations within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
22) Reduce the amount of federal dollars going towards a traditional college education and redirect much of this money to vocational school so that more of our population will begin to learn trade skills.
23) Begin to adjust personal income tax rates lower and the federal sales tax rate higher until the federal government is consistently running small budget surpluses. We will then use these budget surpluses to start paying down our debt.
