[airborne]

If we really want to cut the size of the government, let's START with an across the board 50% reduction in the people who work for our Congressmen.

Make our elected officials write their own bills, and not have hundreds of unelected policy wonks building thousand-page nightmares.

Then a 50% cut from all personal staff of same.

A good start, IMHO. The only problem will be the increase of unemployed, up from the current 10%. Maybe that will get people to want some of the jobs the "Americans won't do".

[Aevery_Freeman]

If we can't actually repeal the Sixteenth (Income Tax) Amendment, we should at least cap it at a fixed percentage of each States GDP to be determined at a Constitutional Convention (just to focus their minds).

More leaches, Mr Washington?

[wintertime]

Every law and program should have expiration date. At a certain point it would be null and void. If it is important enough to keep, then electors should have to go through the entire process of making it a law again.