Dear Dr. Paul. I have a burning question.

One thing to keep in mind is that the removal of all corporate taxes (as Paul rightfully refers to as an additional consumer tax) would prompt a massive corporate hiring wave across the nation.

Combine that with the reality of a nonexistent IRS and a once-more valuable currency, and our economy will be like a rocket at blast off.

It will be painful for a while, at first, but well worth the end results!

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/gross-domestic-pro... numbers show 20% of GDP gone since 2000 and 40 of 41 quarter of shrinkage (negative growth).

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts Likewise unemployment is topping 22%.

So it makes sense that we can afford 20% less government with 20% less productive economy.

Demand a 25% across the board of cuts from this year's federal budget, with a future goal to limit of government to 15% of GDP.

Wasn't it Reagan who cut 3000 Federal jobs resulting in 1 million job expansion in the private sector?

I think I remember reading somewhere that 1500 private sector jobs are created for every federal regulator terminated.

your under the idea that Gov't jobs spend money that create wealth. But that never bothered me. Govt jobs only consume they don't create wealth. They had to take money away before they spent it. Govt depts are not profitable, that is why they are not called for profit companies. Private companies are for profit. They create profit. They create wealth and the whole country gets wealthier. Govt consumes, it's nonprofit, actually it is negative profit by nature so the whole country gets poorer. Are we poorer now or richer? That is an easy question to answer. And the solution is even easier; less govt spending, more private profits.

This is why I love this community (inspired by Dr. Paul). You've recommended things to read. You've given me educated answers I can digest and research.

Please continue to do what you know is good to inspire others to see the world in a positive light. I'm a believer in freedom and personal responsibility. I was raised by immigrant parents who came here with nothing and have accumulated wealth through honesty and hard work.

Although they know nothing of Ron Paul, ..Ron Paul speaks on behalf of the way they've raised me, which is why he resonates with me, as do the rest of you.

Work hard, be kind, be honest, don't mooch, love everybody and never open someone else s fridge with out permission.

Those Government employees will go to work for the people that actually create the jobs in this country (entrepreneurs and small business owners) .... AND ... they'll finally have to work for a living, instead of making $46.75 an hour sitting on their ass regulating, taxing, monitoring, and oppressing the rest of us.

Ron Paul 2012!!!

It just get reinvested in the private market, which is more productive than being spent on a government job.

There would be temporary short term pain but all those people will eventually find new opportunities.

Think about all the smart and creative minds going to waste working for the government... (I'm sure there are some) Those minds would be put to productive use instead of being wasted on worthless paper shuffling government jobs.

Many people would have no choice but to become entrepreneurs and create jobs for others.

We would have a much stronger economy if more people were participating in it.

But I'd rather 'leave Egypt' and give it a try than stay 'in bondage.' We'll figure it out. There could be a whole let less consumption for one thing. Our time could be spent in a much smaller local for another. My freedom is actually more important to me than a job.

As it stands now, everything is kept secret from us, Monsanto is poisoning our food, fluoride poisons our water, our nature is being destroyed, HAARP is operating at their own will with no regulating, corporations polute, money barons commit fraud daily, DNA is being tampered, super soldiers are being lab grown, we mostly don't have a clue what all is happening.

Jobs--with honesty and integrity, we could rework our infrastructure, grow healthy food and clean up our environment, take care of every human on earth to keep them healthy. Your question is so shortsighted that it blows me away. I'm sorry, but life is so much more important. We have a ton of catching up to do once the patents are released. I think the jobs would turn right around, no matter how many we fire in the government. The struggle will be to keep integrity in the system because so many of us are crooked. The judges need to be fired. The lawyers--ugh. Drug companies, corporations, monopolies, they all need to be cut down to size and put into a workable description.

Many gov't jobs are jobs which the gov't co-opted from the private sector to begin with.

But then there are the worthless gov't jobs, which definitely would take a hit.
Perhaps those people could go to job re-training courses for burger flipping or something, like they tell the unemployed private sector people to do.

The truth is the people who lived off the gov't doing worthless paper shuffling jobs will be out of work.
There is no guarantee, or even any likelihood, that worthless paper shufflers will get good paying jobs anywhere.
Perhaps they should have saved their money when they had it cushy as a tax-eater.
Otherwise, not my problem.

and be returned to the private sector. People would need to do what humans did for the last couple thousand years, work to survive and do something productive.

We the people do not need a huge tax sucking government to provide jobs. This government actually stops job creation, and here's how:

The job of a chef, the person needs culinary training (govt subsidized trade), out west, they MUST speak Spanish, must have a HACCP ($90) certificate, tuburculosis test, and those documents go to the EPA ($250) to get a license to work.

Now, let's take the three government jobs out of this equation, and answer your questions with the chef in mind.

The government workers have options. They could form companies that compete to be better EPAs or HACCPs than the Govt they came from, which is not doing well with all these food illness breakouts. I don't think the "Seal of Good Housekeeping" went away, it continues to sustain, and so there would be, many more consumer security businesses.

Benefits could come from joining existing groups, like The Grange (where Grange insurance once dominated the USA), without government jobs, we have competition on the private market, which creates jobs and benefits, as PEOPLE are free to negotiate, instead of paying for services that are not working, but instead hurting us.

What would we expect? Frankly, as the home garden movement and sustainable energy movements develope, I see green building, more Habitat for Humanity, Charity/volunteerism in the future, which a great popularity for alternative medicines as alternatives to pharmaceuticals, and subsidies.

Seems to me, the pain is now in waking the MSM brainwashed out of their "American Dream", they awaken with FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real). I live in a very rural area where I depend on a Volunteer Fire Department. We could not afford to have a government run fire department, so instead, we have a fire department that is made of friends. Some of the most skilled firefighting humanitarians who absolutely respect private property we are blessed to have on hand. We can safely cut the middleman (government) out.

My take on this situation is that of dependency. I liken it to a teenager living at home. You turn 18 usually you have to find your way in society. Every Year young folk leave the roost and find jobs. Sometimes they learn they cannot live above their means. Sometimes they have to settle for something they might not enjoy. But the hard work, if diligent and thriftiness has its rewards. Some of them become entrepreneurs who hire people and create an income for another family. But the government does not create wealth, it steals it from you and me.

These government workers would find productive jobs or become entrepreneurs. Government jobs are not productive!