Republicans want to abolish the Department of Education and the IRS. Both are horrible ideas.
What should be abolished?
1. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
2. The Office of National Drug Control Policy.
3. The Alcohol And Tobacco Tax And Trade Bureau.
4. The Alcohol and Tobacco parts of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
5. The Article I Immigration Court system (transfer this duty to Article III courts).
6. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (as opposed to the separate border control agency).
7. The Employment and Training Administration in the Labor Department.
8. The Export-Import Bank of the U.S.
9. The National Indian Gaming Commission.
10. Criminal and civil forfeiture enforcement of copyright and trademark violations (a similar statutory stand alone crimes).
11. Federal pornography possession enforcement.
12. Diversity jurisdiction in the federal courts.
13. Federal question jurisdiction in the federal courts in most cases involving private parties.
14. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (merge into the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit)
15. The Federal Arbitration Act.
16. Federal grand juries (would require a constitutional amendment).
17. Criminal punishment of illegal entry into the United States.
18. Federal enforcement of bank robbery laws.
19. Federal enforcement of intrastate controlled substance violations.
20. Most federal agency law enforcement agencies.
21. Merge the Commodity Futures Trading Commission into the SEC.
22. Slow speed, long haul passenger rail lines at AMTRAK.
23. Door to door rural mail delivery (replace it with P.O. boxes).
24. The Jones Act.
25. Grants to for profit colleges and universities.
26. Federal civil forfeitures.
27. For profit federal prisons and detention centers.
28. The Medicaid Estate Recovery program.
29. FEMA grants to people suffering disaster losses after rebuilding in stupid zones.
30. The Office of the Director Of National Intelligence.
31. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (enforce the laws in regular Article III courts).
32. The Selective Service System.
33. Most tanks in the U.S. Army (transfer them to allies who want them like Ukraine and Taiwan).
34. New destroyers (of existing designs) for the U.S. Navy.
35. The U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay.
36. Bomber aircraft in the Air National Guard.
37. Canon artillery in the Army National Guard.
38. The Space Force (which should be merged into the Air Force).
39. The Air Force (which should be merged into the Army).
40. Stealth fighters in the Air National Guard.
41. The Next-Generation Intratheater Airlift (NGIA) program in the Air Force (it duplicates a more advanced Army Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program).
42. Foreign aid to Saudi Arabia.
43. The amphibious assault mission of the U.S. Marine Corps.
44. The U.S. Navy's nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N) program.
45. Most U.S. military VIP transport aircraft.
46. The Armored Multipurpose Vehicle (AMPV) procurement of 522 M1283 General Purpose Vehicles, 993 M1286 Mission Command Vehicles, and 386 M1287 Mortar Carrier Vehicles. This would leave the AMPV program with 790 M1284 Medical Evacuation Vehicles and 216 M1285 Medical Treatment Vehicles.
47. The M10 Booker Mobile Protected Firepower program.
48. Retire the B1-B bomber (or transfer it to the U.S. Navy as a patrol aircraft).
49. The ban on travel by Americans to Cuba.
50. The U.S. Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC), which is a high school pre-ROTC program.
2 comments:
Not sure about #23. There are increasing numbers of people living alone and in poor health in rural areas.
I think you could save a lot more money by dropping house delivery of my mail and forcing me to walk 1/2 block to a cluster box. Also, go to every other day delivery – except for medicines.
Almost all new subdivisions have cluster boxes or PO boxes. So do most resort properties. Legacy urban areas could get the same treatment. Not many people on rural routes can manage without an ability to leave their property and go into town on a regular basis anyway. Those in poor health often have a longer combined walk to their mailbox at the end of an epic driveway, than from their house to their car and from their car to the post office. People could sign up for P.O. Box pickup and delivery to their door service. It also enhances privacy and keeps strangers off your property which lots of people value. Singling out any kind of mail for special treatment drives up the cost.
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