I wonder how many folks are serious about limited government rhetoric. Here is an easy litmus test to see if someone is actually serious about small government. Ask them what they would do to considerably scale back the size of the American federal government. These are the only correct answers:
- Massive cut backs on defense (20%): close bases, reduce standing forces, reduce deployments in Iraq and/or Afghanistan
- Massive cut backs on social security (20%): raise the retirement age; means test benefits; cut back benefits
- Massive cut backs on Medicare (21%): means test; limit benefits; age grade.
- Another 14% of the federal budget has to do with some type of fairly popular social safety net outlays, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit or additional elderly support.
Here are some wrong answers. Saving money is wise, but cutting these items isn’t a plausible way to substantially reduce government:
- “waste”
- “discretionary…
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