If I were dictator for a year (I need more than a day)
Make the federal government including the military more cost efficient
End wokeness and equity throughout the federal government including the military
End Title IX gender inclusion
Take DEI out of the military academies
Institute cross the board reduction in federal budgets by 5% per year
End all duplicate federal functions
Eliminate federal minimum wage
Raise the full “retirement” age on Social Security to 70.
End all automatic escalators in entitlement programs
Phase out mandatory social security private accounts and replace with IRAs.
Restrict the growth in the federal budget to the rate of growth in the previous year’s GDP
Institute a flat tax with no exemptions and no deductions regardless of income
Scuttle the Green New Deal
Make America energy independent
Adopt an all-in energy policy with solar, nuclear and fossil fuels.
End windmill energy
Repeal all green energy subsidies
End the new industrial policy of picking winners and losers in “green” energy
End all tariffs and quotas when reciprocated
Require all federal agencies to review on a periodic basis all regulations and conduct a cost/benefit analysis of each
Build a “porcupine” defense around Taiwan
Aid Viet Nam and the Philippines in their confronting Chinese aggression in the South China Sea
Reopen all energy pipelines
Reopen energy sources off shore and in Alaska
Fully support Israel and Ukraine (provided they get their act together)
Isolate Iran and support Israel’s war on Iran’s proxies
Withdraw from the United Nations and expel them from New York
Make active duty military pay fully tax free
Fully restore natural gas exports
End all foreign aid to governments that do not fully support us
End support of foreign wokeness
Fly only the US flag at government buildings and installations worldwide
Get government out of the climate change business (leave it only to private enterprise)
Get the Department of “Justice” out of the lawfare business
Free the political prisoners of Jan 6.
Ensure that voting in federal elections is free from fraud
Ensure that only citizens vote in federal elections
Fully support school choice
Provide incentives to eliminate differences in reading and math proficiencies.
Fully support small business
Reduce regulatory burdens on all businesses but especially small business
Limit the number of new pages in the Federal Register
Remove constraints such as the Davis-Bacon Act which regulates federal wage contracts and the Jones Act which hinders maritime trade
Eliminate the corporate income tax
Abolish the capital gains tax
Eliminate all disincentives from Federal programs
Establish third party boards to negotiate labor contracts with the federal government
Move most of the federal agencies out of Washington
Have federal salaries not to exceed those in the private sector
End all federal welfare and transfer payments and replace them with block grants to the states
Abolish discretionary federal reserve monetary policy which leads to irresponsible tinkering by the Fed. Impose Friedman’s monetary rule of allowing the money supply to grow at the long run GDP growth each year – removing uncertainty
Abolish public sector defined benefit plans and replace them with defined contribution plans.
Repeal health care “reform”. There are market solutions that will work including those designed for pre-existing conditions.
Abolish the departments of education, energy, and agriculture (for starts) and allocate their funding (where appropriate) to the states via block grants.
Abolish all agricultural subsidies.
Encourage and reward risk taking. Ensure that all programs provide positive incentives to be productive rather than negative ones that discourage work.
Close the border to all illegal migrants and expel all those who enter illegally after closing the border
For those already in the country, require all to have work permits and deport able bodied illegals who do not have work permits
Do not deport illegal criminals. Rather give them mandatory minimum prison sentences
Tie school grants to the teaching of economics, civics, American history and the elimination of woke curricula such as woke mathematics and queer history
Require all teachers to be proficient in the subjects that they teach. Too many would fail exams in their subject matter
Subject the anti-Semitic pro Hamas protestors to hate crimes prosecution
Eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and send its functions back to the regulatory agencies
Have a third party evaluate the FBI and eliminate it if it no longer serves its purpose
Make the Federal government reimburse those that it sues if it loses in court. Currently many companies settle because of the cost of litigation
Make all changes in regulations and the tax code require a 60 percent approval in both houses of congress
Make chocolate chocolate chip the national ice cream
Note: What did I leave out?
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