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Which Of These Federal Departments Should Be Abolished?

Which Of These Federal Departments Should Be Abolished?


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Pity there is no option for "all of them" because I would have voted that way. ;)

Nah, I'm going to make you pick just one. Only because I find joy in watching you (and other Libertarians) squirm. ;)
 
Question.

Does abolishing the agency remove every part of it, or are you letting people "abolish" things but then essentially keep it by moving stuff into other agencies?

Are you referring to the department of everything? :mrgreen:
 
I said none. Why? Because all we have to do is defund the ones that are superfluous being that their domain is primarily a state issue, and not a federal one, and they will no longer exist with the states just continuing doing what they do already. One of the few law enforcement duties that the Constitution gives the Federal government is Immigration, which just happens to be the one law enforcement duty that they fail miserably at performing.

A agree that the ATF, Dept. of Education and a few others are superfluous. The TSA, however, can be argued to be within the Constitutional powers of the Federal government under the Commerce Clause.
 
Spending is at an all time high, the national debt is far into the trillions, and government is growing at an exponential rate. Arguably, there needs to be some cuts. Which of the following federal departments should be abolished? If you believe several of the listed departments should be abolished, choose the department that needs to be abolished the most.

Definitely DEA. An organization whose sole job in life is to lock human beings in cages for victimless crimes has no place in a free and modern society.
 
The CIA should be disbanded and reestablished to intel collection only. Homer Landscready should be nuked and give the FBI the lead. Also there are a ton of agencies that have long outlived their original purpose but have been retasked just to keep their budgets flowing - nuke them all. The REA (rural electrification admin) is a good example of this.
 
You forgot to list "All of the Above".
 
Department of education is a federal entity we can do with out

ATF is an agency we should get rid of as well

and ultimately the DEA. Drugs should be a state issue
same with guns, tobacco and alcohol

All of those could be handled at the state, county or city level. An one size fits all approach causes lots of inefficiency. Forcing municipalities in Arizona to install storm drains the same way they are installed in Oregon creates lots of inefficiencies. The federal government should provide a common military, a common language and a common form of currency. State and local governments have better eyes to see the needs and the desires of their particular locality. Our borders do need to be safe. We do need a common language. We do need a common currency.
 
Yeah, if memory serves one could argue we don't have constitutional authority to have an Air Force, but rather the navy or army should have an air corps of sorts

I'm curious how the nation would be better served by messing with the hierarchy and structure of the air force. Or why we should be eternally bound to think in terms of the technology of the 1870s. That's one of the ways that we've been stripped of our 4th amendment protections, by trying to fit new technology into old rules, rather than updating the rules.
 
None should be abolished but ALL should be downsized with reduced budgets...
 
Everyone hates the government till their house is taken out by a tornado, hurricane or flood.... Then all of sudden it is "where is FEMA and the government ?" "Why isn't anything getting done?" "I need help!"

As for the agencies, I have no idea which I would do away with. I have little to no contact with most of them other then the FDA.
 
I would have liked to see a choice of all of the above.
 
Too many I want killed to mention.
 
:lol:.. not that DoE... the other one

I'm still trying to figure out why the Department of Education needs it's own Swat Team... Or the EPA, or the BLM, and the FDA...
 
Let's ask an expert on the subject:

 
Spending is at an all time high, the national debt is far into the trillions, and government is growing at an exponential rate. Arguably, there needs to be some cuts. Which of the following federal departments should be abolished? If you believe several of the listed departments should be abolished, choose the department that needs to be abolished the most.

So hard to choose. The NSA, TSA, and DHS should be abolished, the others should see drastic reduction in responsibility and power.
 
Like I said, I'd still need to know if abolishing the agency means every part of it is completely gone from government or if it's duties will be moved into another agency or what? Do the agencies under a department go away if the department goes away?

If you get rid of DHS does that mean that the Secret Service, for instance, goes away as well? Does it move under another department? Or does it go away but another agency takes over it's duties? If you get rid of Health and Human Services does the National Institute for Health and the FDA remain because you're only getting rid of the department, or do they go on the chopping block as well? If you get rid of TSA does that mean we remove all forms of federal law enforcement within aircrafts from the governments role since the Federal Air Marshal Service is an office within TSA?

There's a lot of questions to be able to actually answer this in any real way
 
So hard to choose. The NSA, TSA, and DHS should be abolished, the others should see drastic reduction in responsibility and power.

You don't think the DEA should be abolished?
 
You don't think the DEA should be abolished?

Oh, it's on the very bottom. I'd get rid of that too. Not to say that I'd be looking to legalize all drugs, but rather that the enforcement can be brought into proper channels and police forces.
 
spending is at an all time high, the national debt is far into the trillions, and government is growing at an exponential rate. Arguably, there needs to be some cuts. Which of the following federal departments should be abolished? If you believe several of the listed departments should be abolished, choose the department that needs to be abolished the most.

every one should be abolished, plus many more that are not on the list.
 
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