It’s not so much about, “Well… what programs would you eliminate?”, but more about the obvious need for our government to step back and take a look at how they’re spending, collecting, and justifying these taxes.

I think earmark reform would be highly more effective at reducing government waste than cutting useful programs. It’s hard to keep track of all the articles I’ve read about our tax dollars going to useless studies and projects, such as the research and tracking of gay sex practices at Argentinean Bars. Really?!?!

And that’s only one aspect of what needs to be reformed.

Our tax system is archaic, inefficient, and a huge burden. We spend billions annually on services just to comply with the over 60,000 pages of tax law currently on the books.

It’s ridiculous.

I particularly loved the article out there about how some poor, forlorn small businessman who reports $500,000 per year of business income will see income taxes rise $23,000 per year. Wah wah. If $500,000 of income doesn’t make you feel (a) wealthy, and (b) grateful for the protection of a civilized society, you are hopelessly out-of-touch.

This is about Congress and the POTUS bulling their way through a fiscal premise that is without mathematical support, and with extreme disregard for what their constituencies think. They have put in play debts that will never be paid, and are rife with opportunity for abuse and (continued) corruption WITHOUT adequate (if any) oversight.

Somebody needs to watch the watchers. There is a very valid reason big government moves slowly: once done it almost never, ever gets UNdone.

Defense? NEVER. Just because we spend more each year on defense that Russia, China, Germany, England, France, India, Pakistan, and the next 20 countries COMBINED is no reason to cut defense spending.

Social Security? That’s a non-starter.

It’s just more of that “starve the beast” and “deregulate” mentality.