The answer is so simple — government is using up money which businesses need for capital. Cut entire portions of government. I can think of two right away.
Start with redundant departments. Every state has a department of education. Duplication by the Feds is stupid. Eliminate the Federal Department of Education.
Next, every state collects operating revenue. It would be cheaper for the states to retain what they need and provide a portion to the Feds for national purposes such as defense. It is easier and cheaper to deal with less than 100 accounts rather than millions. Eliminate the Internal Revenue Service.
It’ll never happen. It’s common sense. Once a President is allowed, for whatever is expedient or rationalized as “right” (according to popular opinion), to suspend the Constitution, then from then on it’s downhill all the way. But, don’t despair, get up, shake off the dust, and salvage whatever you can until there’s nothing left to salvage. After that, then I suppose it’s PRODUCE and make the best of a rotten situation as long as you can.
Of course before the 16th amendment (income tax) federal taxes were apportioned to the several states and not to individuals.
Apportioning to the states means each state decides how the tax is to be collected and from whom.
The federal politicians are not concerned about saving money or operating more efficiently, they are concerned about power and who has it. They have it and they aim to keep it, even if it means ultimate destruction for everyone. At least they will have power now.
This was essentially the approach taken under the Articles of Confederation, and the utter unworkability of the system is one of the big reasons for why they were replaced by the Constitution.
Sure answers are simple. It is execution that is complicated.
That is the point of this line in the article
America is looking for leadership capable of making bold decisions.
Every Department of Redundancy, every Program of Programs, every loop hole in the tax code created by Congress has its adherents and lobbying group.
You don’t set out to gore someone’s scared cow with raising a posse of cattle herders with their accompanying pitchforks and torches ready to defend their government sanctioned advantages.
The Department of Education was barely a year old when Ronaldus Magnus set to slaughter that milk cow. He was soundly rebuffed by the defenders of the sacred cow of the Teacher’s Unions.
If you are going to cut any program you had better have a huge majority of the American people vocally crying death to that program if you are to have a chance to succeed. If you are talking government; it is far easier to create than destroy.
It is going to take bold leadership; that is a Bold Charismatic Leader who can inspire the people to champion bold action to support killing blood sucking, creativity stifling government programs.
Personally I just don’t see it happening. Almost every person in this country has or has a family member that has become dependant on some part of government largess. Perhaps we will be able to chip away at some of the smaller bits like ethanol and farm subsidies because they have relatively small constituencies but the huge parts like the Dept of Ed I think are dragons to big to slay.