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I'm thinking a 10% cut in all government departments/agencies for the first year. Zero based budgets are the norm.

Eliminate federal agencies, particularly those that are redundant to that of state agencies of the same function. Example:EPA, Education, IRS, BATF...so forth.

Place government lands for sale...and not to foreign interest/entities.

Require all persons that receive government assistance to perform a function to help society. Clean parks, roadways, attendants, graffiti cleanup, meals on wheels...whatever. Functions the government pays for now would be transferred to those on gubbamint assistance. No Mo free rides.

Oh, here is a good one. A buddy at work said..if you're caught rioting, looting, burning. Not only do you go to jail, you and your family lose all government assistance. All of them...All assistance.

Lower the corporate tax rate to 15% and give amnesty to dollars hidden overseas.

Immigration? 5 year moratorium on legal immigration. Create a guest worker program, register illegals who are here so we know who they are, do background checks. Illegal with a felony...immediately deported. No path to citizenship. You must apply and work for it just like everyone else.

Place a 30% fee on money transfers to foreign countries if you cannot prove you are legal or citizen. Require all guest workers carry minimum level of auto insurance. Issue tax ID #’s so they can pay taxes and stop sucking the juice from this country.

>>>>>>>>Lower the corporate tax rate to 15% and give amnesty to dollars hidden overseas.<<<<<<<<<

Why lower it all? Corporate profits were reported at close to 3 Trillion last year and they paid $220 Billion in actual taxes. A corporate tax rate of 15% would actually be a tax hike, if the corporations had to pay taxes on their GAAP earnings. Under the current system, these a-holes laugh their way to the bank while they legally cook the books with “tax accounting”.

I am not too sure whether I should be laughing or screaming at the comments on this thread. Everyone on this forum wants to reign in government and empower the corporations. Check out DU and they want the Government to be almighty and the corporations shut down.

The problem with both of those positions is that the government and big business are one and the same. This has been reality for a couple of decades now.

If they wanted to sure up Social Security they could pass a law requiring E-verify. Employers that want to keep their illegal employees would pay a nominal fee to pay for criminal background checks and CIS processing. The illegal would be granted a sponsored guest worker permit. The FICA tax payed by both employer and employee would not be attributed to the guest worker but would be a fine against illegal presence in the U.S. Any path to citizenship would be independent of this program. Commit a crime, get deported, regardless of family status.

Messing with a 12% increase in wages is way safer than messing with up to a 50% increase by raising the minimum wage to $15. Also works towards a better solution for illegal labor, a substantial cause of low wage unemployment.

“Require all persons that receive government assistance to perform a function to help society. Clean parks, roadways, attendants, graffiti cleanup, meals on wheels...whatever. Functions the government pays for now would be transferred to those on gubbamint assistance. No Mo free rides.”

So basically the people who loose their jobs by being replaced by those receiving assistance, would end up back in the same job when they go in for assistance due to loosing their government contract job. Lol