As mentioned earlier, I am a strong believer in the idea that the federal government should only be involved in constitutional functions. We should keep the Department of Defense and a bare-bones version of the Department of State. We should keep the Secret Service and the United States Marshals Service. We should keep the Department of Veterans Affairs but find a way to streamline it to ensure that veterans get better care.We should eliminate the Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security (except for ICE and CBP), Interior, Labor, Justice, Transportation, and most of their subsidiary agencies.
We should eliminate the FBI, DEA, EPA, ATF, IRS, FAA, among other agencies.
We should eliminate the Federal Reserve and abolish almost all federal taxes. These can be replaced with a flat tariff with a low rate of 3 or 4%, applied to all goods entering the country.
We should consider eliminating all of the lower federal courts except for the Supreme Court.
All of the functions performed by the eliminated departments and agencies should be returned to the states, where it will be their decision as to whether they need to have similar agencies performing similar functions at the statewide level.
The federal government only has the authority to regulate three crimes under the constitution: treason, counterfeiting and piracy. Today, they have more than 4500 crimes on the books. The only position consistent with the constitution is to repeal almost all of these federal crime statutes and return the matter of prosecuting them to the states. States are the proper venue for prosecuting crimes like murder and domestic terrorism. States like New York are perfectly suited to prosecute people like Bernie Madoff, we don't need the feds interfering. Military tribunals are the proper venue for prosecuting enemy combatants.
What do you say that we both forget about your earlier statement about leaving this thread and you can come back here and explain why you left Orthodox Judaism and so forth.