Plan to Save America: A Modest Proposal

The Voice of Reason has come up with a simple plan to restore freedom in America. I have though long and hard about this. I have worked on some Constitutional Amendment drafts to deal with the many anti-freedom court decisions over the last 200+ years.

However, I suddenly realized that the first step is really, really simple: an omnibus repeal of every Congressional enactment in that last 200 years, except for already spent appropriations. There would need to a a brief transition period as every Federal agency created in the last two hundred years is dismantled and its employee forced to go out and find useful productive work for a change. But that transition could be worked out in the legislative process. No state laws would be affected, except when the state law is merely enforcing a newly repealed Federal law.

Then we start all over.

If that sounds good to you, bear in mind that the repeal would include elimination of popular programs like Social Security and Medicare. We might need transition time to get out of both of those Ponzi schemes. The Government has made virtual slaves of the recipients, making them dependent, getting them hooked on the entitlement benefits. Withdrawal from an addiction is never easy.

It would also repeal popular programs like the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I suggest to you that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is past its prime. Society has changed. Society as a whole believes that discrimination on the basis of race is wrong. Anyone who does not believe and act on that principle deserves to be ostracized by society. Having said that, the Civil Rights laws have morphed into something different that originally intended, becoming a weapon to be used by disgruntled minorities, for example. We can learn from experience, take the good and leave the bad, and perhaps replace it with something more fair and rational to all. But not all morals need the force of law. Maybe, just maybe, having show that there are no more "whites only" bathrooms, and a black man has been elected president, we are in a post-racial place that makes the force of law for non-discrimination unneeded and out-dated.

The income tax would be gone. so would ATF, EPA, DOT and the entire alphabet soup of agencies.

So far my plan has been endorsed by only me. That is a start.