How does Ron Paul suggest America makes the transition to his vision of a bare bones Government?
Tucking Fypos asked:
Millions of people will be out of work if Ron Paul has his way. Trillions of dollars will be transferred from Government to corporations. I understand, and can see the strong points in his ideas, but I never hear him talk about how the transition will take place. He is talking about ending the IRS, the Federal Reserve and from the sounds of things about 90% of Government agencies.
How does he plan to make this transition as it would not be easy?
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Sounds like blissfull heaven…
I think he just figures on waving his magic wand and having his Anarchist’s Nirvana suddenly appear.
libertarianism=chaos. There is no reasonable transition to this plan, and even if there was the plan itself is flawed.
Good. The government doesn’t provide jobs, the private sector does.
USSR, Cuba, **** Germany, and Mussolini’s Italy. All failed due to big government.
America was built great on a small government that gave us Economic Freedom. We stray away as we lose our jobs to China wondering why as our taxes and restrictions increase.
Believe it or not, the Federal Reserve was not around since the beginning of time.
Even Kennedy, a liberal, wanted to end it.
What do you think would happen? Congress would take back its power of coining and setting the value of a currency. By the way, that power was given to congress by the Constitution.
Generally speaking, you’d have to start with an educational plan. Teach people that they are responsible for their futures, not the government. At the same time, you would institute a flat tax plan, a welfare to work plan and several other structures. As soon as the flat tax went into effect you would start shutting down the IRS. Each step of the way would require abolishing more laws and cutting more taxes. As taxation dropped the economy would rebound and surge, making more jobs available. You would probably want to set up some temporary tariff structure to allow US businesses to sell their products more readily but that would be a temporary measure.
There is a lot more to it but that would be the start. Each step would have to be carefully planned but it certainly is workable. The idea that we need government to do all these things for us is fallacious and the belief that we need them is a result of many years of brainwashing.
You didn’t say why you think money would be transferred to corporations.
If money is transferred to corporations, what makes you feel people would be out of work? Don’t corporations hire people? Are you talking about government employees only? This is sad, but we could and would make the transition in a humanitarian way.
Paul’s point of view is that we are doing things the wrong way. If you don’t agree, you should explain why you think that the IRS, the Fed, and the hand-outs to foreigners are the right way to do things.
For one, we could bring back the troops from the 177 countries around the world, INCLUDING AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ. That would save us over a trillion dollars.
No one said it would be easy, and it would be gradual of course. But it can happen in the long run. We got ourselves here and we can get ourselves out. At the end of the day, who are performing these government functions? People that’s who. If you allow any good that needs to be performed at the present time by the government, why not allow the best performing private individuals do it? Would you like to know the difference?
Its the difference between going to a restaurant and the DMV. Because it it not for profit, it is allowed to be inefficient and take a loss. The only reason the post office has been competitive,even though it still takes a loss every year, is because of UPS and Fed-ex.
If our government could roll back to the budget in 98, we could eliminate the income tax, and therefore the IRS. The Fed reserve is unnecessary, we could have competing currencies, which would not lose value over time like fed reserve notes. Of course gold or silver would end up being the currency in use, but the value of your money would not go down the drain year after year. And if you think deflation is bad, then you should be in favor for the price of T.v’s and computers and other electronics to not only stay at where they are when first introduced in the market but rather go up in price. And if you think health care is different, it isnt. In fact there are more technological advancements in healthcare, which should also drive down costs, but they dont, and thats because government has such a big hand in these things. It is the most heavily regulated industry, and sees more subsidies than all of them. Remember government has no money of its own. It’s not doing anyone a big favor.
Remember the movie Alien, when they brought that dude back with the thing on his face? The couldn’t simply cut it off because it was breathing for him, keeping him alive.
The Federal Reserve, like the parasite in Alien, has positioned itself in a similar situation with its host (the US financial system).
Likewise, big government has made itself into a ‘necessary evil,’ sickening its host while keeping it barely breathing, so it can continue to grow.
The transition will not be easy, but that doesn’t change the fact that the parasite MUST be killed. If it continues to gestate, it will kill the host anyways, and then you’ll have even worse problems (i.e. a xenomorph running loose on the ship, full blown fascism, etc.).