September 28, 2008
DRILL, BABY, DRILL!
How will we find the money to pay for the things we want?
Simple: we should allow any and all oil & gas drilling, shale oil development, bioenergy, etc, and participate in the profits of becoming a net energy exporter.
Then, like Alaska, once the debt has been paid down and we're running a current balanced budget, we run biennial national referenda on what to do with the surplus. The choices would be proposed by Congress, and the highest vote getter would get the money.
Choices should include all non-essential government activities, allowing the people to decide which ideas should get funding. Or, alternatively, whether they should get funding at all.
Ideas such as -
Which do you think will win each year?
What other programs should be subject to ongoing referenda?
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Simple: we should allow any and all oil & gas drilling, shale oil development, bioenergy, etc, and participate in the profits of becoming a net energy exporter.
Then, like Alaska, once the debt has been paid down and we're running a current balanced budget, we run biennial national referenda on what to do with the surplus. The choices would be proposed by Congress, and the highest vote getter would get the money.
Choices should include all non-essential government activities, allowing the people to decide which ideas should get funding. Or, alternatively, whether they should get funding at all.
Ideas such as -
Reduce or eliminate taxes, and if taxes are already covered, send rebates directly to taxpayers based on taxes paid previously.
"Poverty" programs, government charity and income transfers- housing, welfare, foodstamps, etc. - all the usual Marxist stuff.
"National Greatness" activities - non-military space programs, monuments & memorials, national parks, memorial libraries and historical places, and "vanity" projects like bikepaths, city centers, riverwalks etc that should have been state projects in the first place, but are the kinds of things that now show up in the Fed budget as earmarks.
Non-reciprocal foreign aid - why are we sending Egypt billions every year? If countries receiving aid from America can't convince the American people they will use it to our benefit as well as their own, we cut them off.
"Poverty" programs, government charity and income transfers- housing, welfare, foodstamps, etc. - all the usual Marxist stuff.
"National Greatness" activities - non-military space programs, monuments & memorials, national parks, memorial libraries and historical places, and "vanity" projects like bikepaths, city centers, riverwalks etc that should have been state projects in the first place, but are the kinds of things that now show up in the Fed budget as earmarks.
Non-reciprocal foreign aid - why are we sending Egypt billions every year? If countries receiving aid from America can't convince the American people they will use it to our benefit as well as their own, we cut them off.
Which do you think will win each year?
What other programs should be subject to ongoing referenda?
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