A $21 Trillion Tax Cut by James Ostrowski

Here's a good start, instead of the government giving away nearly a Trillion, why not cut $21Trillion from government operations immediately:

Let’s do some more easy tax cuts. Let’s eliminate a bunch of departments we could do without. In the name of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, I hereby abolish:

Agriculture: Grows no crops. $19 billion

Commerce: Neither makes nor sells merchandise. $6 billion

Education: Know anyone educated by the Department of Education? $34 billion

Energy: Jimmy Carter’s idea—need I say more?
$17 billion

HHS: Dump the FDA, our most lethal agency. Whatever
else HHS does, it’s bad. $54 billion

HUD: Inventor of "the projects"; destroyer of cities.
$37 billion

Interior: An independent nation larger than France. $9 billion

Labor: Engages in no actual labor. $12 billion

Transportation: Capitol of pork. (Keep the Coast Guard.) $48 billion

Corps of Eng: Causes floods. See FEMA.
$4 billion

FEMA: This agency’s a disaster (in dealing with the floods caused
by the Corps of Engineers).
$3 billion

EPA: If you want an important job done badly,
give it to a federal bureaucracy. $7 billion

Foreign Aid: Retirement fund for corrupt dictators/ bribing
Egypt and Israel to pretend to like each other.
$11 billion

NASA: Challenger. Need I say more? $14 billion

SBA: They only waste a billion dollars each year,
but they waste it magnificently. $1 billion

By eliminating these useless and destructive agencies, we save an additional $276 billion, all of which goes into our tax cut. I still can’t believe the gigantic size of the budgets of HUD, HHS, Education, and Transportation. I’d love to spend time detailing how useless and destructive these agencies are. Instead, just see any book by James Bovard.

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