This
document contains a list of my policies as per the issues which most
directly affect the federal budget. This set of policies is fiscally
sound, at least according to the New York Times Budget Puzzle.
Ideally,
the further-than-necessary cuts to military, U.N.-related spending,
intelligence-gathering, and education which I am proposing will cause
the prospect of repealing laws which will have temporarily reduced
Social Security benefits and mortgage deductions for those Americans
with high income levels to become more realistic and immediate.
Additionally,
my hope is that there would be some funds left over from this which
would help the abolition of the Federal Reserve System and the I.R.S.
pay for the end of the federal income tax.
General
Military:
End
interventionist foreign policy without sacrificing our national
sovereignty. End our unconstitutional membership in the United
Nations. Employ a non-aggressive nuclear deterrence strategy, but
continue to negotiate bilateral nuclear arsenal reduction with
Russia. Reduce the Federal Bureau of Investigators’s and the
Central Intelligence Agency’s influence on the Executive Branch,
and return them to being strictly intelligence-gathering agencies.
Middle
East Military:
Withdraw
all troops and infrastructure immediately, or at least reduce the
total number of troops in both countries combined to 30,000 by the
year 2013, leaving behind no military bases, permanent nor temporary.
Dramatically reduce the level of U.S. troops in - and military
spending on - Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Djibouti.
Worldwide
Military:
Begin
to reduce the quantity of our 900 overseas military bases, and end
our policy of stationing at least one troop in 4 out of every 5
countries. Dramatically reduce the level of U.S. troops in - and
military spending on - the Bahamas, Cuba, Honduras, Great Britain,
Belgium, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Serbia / Montenegro / Kosovo,
South Korea, and Japan.
Military
Budget:
Reduce
our military to the size it was before Operation Iraqi Freedom began,
especially the Navy and Air Force fleets. Reduce space-based military
spending and cancel or delay some weapons programs. Keep non-combat
military spending and overhead pay level.
Foreign
Aid:
Cut
at least a billion dollars annually from our foreign aid budget, and
restructure the foreign aid budget so as to not so preponderantly
favor Israel, which has only 0.1% of the non-U.S. world population,
yet receives 22% of our total foreign aid and 44% of total military
foreign aid.
Domestic
Spending:
Reduce
the federal work force by 10%, cut 250,000 government contractors,
eliminate agricultural subsidies, and ban all earmarks, pork, and
district pet projects. Do not cut assistance to states or regional
subsidies; the pay of civilian federal workers; or funding for fossil
fuel, the Smithsonian Institute, or the National Park Service.
Health:
Do
not raise the eligibility age of Medicare, but cap the growth of
Medicare beginning in 2013. Do not enact medical malpractice reform
or tighten the eligibility requirement for disability claims.
Temporarily reduce the tax break for employer-provided health
insurance. Allow states and regional district courts to amend and
nullify the individual health insurance mandate.
Social
Security:
Do
not raise the retirement age for Social Security. Temporarily reduce
the Social Security benefits for workers above the 60th percentile of
the lifetime earnings distribution.
General
Budget:
End
Pay-As-You-Go and rally Congress and the states to ratify a
balanced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Impose a national
sales tax, work towards eventually abolishing the federal income tax,
and repeal the 16th Amendment, abolishing the Federal Reserve System
and the Internal Revenue Service.
Taxes:
Keep
corporate and individual tax loopholes open, extend the Bush tax cuts
on a permanent basis, and do not impose investment or bank taxes.
Impose a millionaire’s tax, but do not impose a payroll tax for
incomes above $106,000. Return the estate / death tax to zero and do
not impose a carbon tax. Temporarily reduce the mortgage deduction
for high-income households. Do not begin to use an alternate measure
for inflation.
For
more entries on budgets, finance, debt, and the bailouts, please
visit:
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/05/debt-and-federal-budget.html
For
more entries on taxation, please visit:
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/05/tax-cuts.html
Written on February 11th, 2011
Edited in April 2014
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