Quote from: Beerwizzard on May 21, 2019, 12:21:24 PM

Quote from: BADecker on May 20, 2019, 11:49:48 PM

By the time they run through all the people in government, and the garbage collector resigns before he is executed, government problems will have straightened themselves out.

The problem is that if you would punish every politician that can't handle with his responsibilities then it creates a risk for qualified politicians to get the same punishment. So pretty soon you will simply run out of people that wanna work there and their place would be taken by a bunch of honest retards. Or no one would be pushing any initiatives because of those risks.

That's the point. Government reduction.

Politicians aren't completely stupid. Many of them will run on a platform that they will be certain they can accomplish if elected. The platforms will be, however, silly things, because silly things are what they won't get hurt over.

Then, somebody will come along and run on a platform like getting rid of the IRS before going through half of his presidential term. If he gets elected, he will have time to do all kinds of other things before the first 2 years is up. Since getting rid of the IRS is what most people would like - even if many of them say they like taxes - the other things he does in the first 2 years will be just as dynamic... like bringing all the troops home... or putting us back on the gold standard.

The points will be threefold:
1. Government will shrink;
2. Important stuff will get done;
3. Local government will become more powerful.

If the nation were only 33 million strong, we might want to increase federal government size. But with a nation of 330,000,000, we want to increase local power, so that the feds can't regulate and tax stuff they shouldn't have their fingers into anyway.

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