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what would you eliminate and how would you achieve reducing the size of government
Alot more then I have room to post on a talkboard. However I will give you a few examples. let's start with government itself. Let's stop giving politicians a separate taxpayer funded pension for every new office they hold. Just a pension for the highest office they held should suffice. Lets take away the franking privilige where they can send mass campaign mail through the postage system at the taxpayers expense. Let's stop funding studies on the sexual habits of the mediterranean fruit fly. Let's put an expiration date on welfare entitlemements for able bodied adults or at least make them work for those ebt cards. No able bodied adult should get a free ride for a lifetime. Let's get rid of the most ludicrous of congressional earmarks that are meant for little more then securing votes for a given bill from reluctant senators or representatives. One such earmark led to a 10 million dollar remodel of an old train station in my locale. It was said that it would become a major transportation hub. it only became a very expensive glorified city bus stop.