Who who would make the perfect President of the United States?<\/p>\n
Well, here’s what I think:<\/p>\n
Economic Policy<\/strong>\u00a0– the ideal President realizes the best thing government can do is get out of the way. \u00a0That cuts both ways – there’s no such thing as “too big to fail”. \u00a0 Enforcing the laws that exist – against things like fraud and the like – is government’s proper role. And the goverment needs to get out of the systematic structural debt business. \u00a0Since jacking up taxes to pay for Obama’s level of spending would be ruinous to business, that means slashing goverment spending. Which is fine, because my ideal candidate realizes that…<\/p>\n Role of Government<\/strong>\u00a0– …our government has poked its nose into a lot of areas where it has no business. \u00a0We could do without massive swathes of the Federal Government; the Departments of Education and Energy need to be abolished. We need a flat tax (on income above the poverty line, or some reasonable multiple of it).<\/p>\n Of course, every bit as important as the “role of government” is the “role of the citizen”. \u00a0Nearly half of Americans pay no taxes to the Feds. \u00a0The burden on the individual taxpayer needs to be lowered – but there need to be more of them. \u00a0Democracy can not work when a minority is working to pay the bills about the majority.<\/p>\n Oh, yeah – the Tenth Amendment needs to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n Law And Order <\/strong>\u00a0– Part of our crime problem is that we create so many criminals. \u00a0It’s time to end the war on drugs. \u00a0This would end the black market for drugs, which is the motivation for the criminal enterprises small and large that have gutted most of America’s cities and made poverty in America such uniquely and recently nasty and criminality-prone state.<\/p>\n Foreign Policy<\/strong> – Our policy toward our friends and allies are still mired in the days when we were the only nation that could stand up against Communism. \u00a0The Soviets are gone, the Europeans, Japanese and South Koreans have more than enough economic power to see to their own defense, and we should be out of that business.<\/p>\n We should also make it clear that while we seek redress of international grievances, we will not stand for the destruction of the democracies in Israel or Taiwan. \u00a0That doesn’t necessarily mean that the US needs to have<\/p>\n Defense<\/strong> – In the eighties, Edwin Luttwak wrote “The Pentagaon and the Art of War”, which argue that the US was spending an obscene amount of money to no visible goal; we were planning, essentially, to re-fight World War II. \u00a0And while the Pentagon updated its approach by the end of the Cold War, it’s time to do it again. \u00a0We need military – but what kind? What are <\/em>America’s interests,and how are they best defended?<\/p>\n So what candidate best meets all of those criteria?<\/p>\n None of them, of course.<\/p>\n So I guess I’ll take my toys and go home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Who who would make the perfect President of the United States? Well, here’s what I think: Economic Policy\u00a0– the ideal President realizes the best thing government can do is get out of the way. \u00a0That cuts both ways – there’s no such thing as “too big to fail”. \u00a0 Enforcing the laws that exist – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25094,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25091\/revisions\/25094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}