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birdwatcherTad DeHaven@catoAtLiberty: Presidential candidate Ron Paul has released a fiscal reform plan that would dramatically cut spending and rein in the size and scope of the federal government.
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The following are some of the plan’s highlights:
Paul would immediately eliminate five cabinet-level departments: Commerce, Education, Energy, HUD, and Interior.
Paul says his plan would cut spending by $1 trillion in the first year alone, and balance the budget in three years without increasing taxes.
Funding for the wars would end. That’s not isolationism – it’s a common sense position that also reflects popular opinion. In addition, foreign aid spending would be zeroed out.
Intelligent government reforms are proposed, including privatizing the Federal Aviation Administration and repealing costly Davis-Bacon rules.
On entitlements, younger people would be given the freedom to opt out of Social Security and Medicare. Spending would be frozen for Medicaid and other welfare programs and they would be converted to block-grant programs.
That’s an ambitious agenda to say the least, and one that the press is likely dismiss as a pipe-dream. Then again, Paul has managed to single-handedly turn the Federal Reserve into a campaign issue, which nobody could have foreseen just several short years ago.
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The following are some of the plan’s highlights:
That’s an ambitious agenda to say the least, and one that the press is likely dismiss as a pipe-dream. Then again, Paul has managed to single-handedly turn the Federal Reserve into a campaign issue, which nobody could have foreseen just several short years ago.
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Date: 2011-10-18 02:00 am (UTC)http://thefinalphaseforum.invisionzone.com/index.php?s=c8330ea64d04ee9be896ee2be960db5a&showtopic=2376
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Date: 2011-10-18 02:12 am (UTC)2. Because his foreign policies are suicidal. I'm not saying invade every country, but lying back and baring your neck is DEFINITELY not the answer either.
3. Because he won't win.
Это что, форум военнослужащих?
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Date: 2011-10-18 02:17 am (UTC)Там встречаются люди с военным, а так же разведывательным бэкграундом. Преимущественно правых идей. Но вообще, разные люди.
Я совершенно не рассматриваю их мнения как истину в последней инстации, н с анализом RP в частности согласен чуть более чем наполовину :)
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Date: 2011-10-18 02:17 am (UTC)