Cut taxes across the board, cut spending across the board. Like, firesale cuts across the board. If it were me, i would slash so much spending that most people wouldn't even know we had a federal government. "Eerybody gets to keep der money!"
what would be the first thing each of you would slash?
Golly... i wouldn't know where to start. I would completely remove the:
State Department: $53 billion
the FED, IRS, World Bank - most of the Department of the Treasury: $12 billion. I fucking hate those agencies. So much misery as a result of them. (we would still need a skeleton crew due to all the other taxes we need to collect)
I would slash the military to pre Dot Com bubble spending rates: $400 billion, and seeing as how I closed the State Dept, we wouldn't need our military in foreign nations to do thy bidding of the CFR.
Department of Homeland Security: $50 billion. I would have to move some of the agencies that are under the DHS into the Defence Budget or the Justice Dept. where they should be.
Department of Agriculture: $25 billion
Department of Education: $71 billion
DEA: $2 billion, ATF: $1.3 billion & FBI: $9 billion
Department of Health and Human Services: $84 billion.
Legislative Branch - 50% cuts across the board: $2 billion
Department of Labor: $13 billion
Environmental Protection Agency: $9 billion
Department of the Interior: $13 billion
Department of Housing and Urban Development: $41 billion
Other Independent Agencies: $23 billion.
Just from those agencies above, $800+ billions in savings per year. Not to mention all the misery the above agencies spread to the citizens of the US and the citizens of foreign nations.
There is an old saying, "Even the shit from small animals, when not picked up, will turn into a large pile of shit." After all the above are removed, I could then focus on removing all kinds of other small agencies.