Fixing the Economy for Dummies

Elizabeth Borelli
College
Libertarian
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1. Selling weapons to Taiwan = no-no. Yes, selling 6.4 billion dollars worth of arms to Taiwan seems appealing. But we owe most, if not all of that money back to CHINA…who is pissed at us for selling Taiwan weapons or helping them out at all. At the end of the day, is that really worth it? Look what happened when we helped the middle east get away from Soviet regime: years later they used our own weapons against us. What makes anyone think that Taiwan will be any different? China is bigger and badder and we owe them a lot more, so at the end of the day, selling weapons to Taiwan has no economic benefit or other benefit to us…and that should be the end of that.

2. Closed borders. We all know that the number of legal AND illegal immigrants currently in the country is a little ridiculous. They take up jobs and many of them don’t offer very much to our economy or livelihoods. We need to concentrate heavily on border control with Mexico, deport any illegal immigrants found (unless its a mother and newborn child…any mother-child pair where the child is over 3 should be deported), and either stop or put heavy restrictions on legal immigration into the country. Then we can try and rebuild the economy.

3. With closed borders comes WAY less trade with other countries…especially those in the middle east. Yeah, gas costs a lot. So walk or take public transit…you’re going to be doing it anyway when the economy collapses why not do it voluntarily? Anything like gasoline and oil that we have to import then gets thoroughly taxed. So HEAVILY limit trade with other countries and make what we can in the homeland.

4. With THAT comes not sending aid to other countries without payment. All the corn and such that we send overseas? Yeah, half those countries climates can’t grow the kind of food we send them, so now their bodies are dependent upon a diet their soil can’t support. That’s actually bad for them, dummies. Not to mention, if you keep it within the country to be bought and sold or make ethanol and things like that, its good for our economy.

5. Stop paying government workers (elected officials only) a salary. If their state wants to pay them, fine. Congress only works 30 days in Washington a year and in that time they get absolutely nothing of use done. So we should MAYBE pay their living expense for that 30 days, and MAYBE their flight TO Washington. After that, they’re on their own. Those people make six figures to screw us over year after year.

6. Eliminate all taxes except the sales tax, which should be boosted to a higher percentage and be nation-wide, and applicable to everything. Most taxes weren’t meant to be constitutional anyway…the only reason we have an income tax is because the Union was hurting for money during the war between the states and implemented it as an emergency measure. It was never supposed to stay, and considering our founding fathers had taxation problems with England, I’m sure they would disapprove of all the taxes we have now. Not to mention, there aren’t enough “representatives” to really effectively represent us at all. No taxation without representation. 15% Sales tax on everything you have to buy. Thats it.

7. Cut the campaign budgets for elected officials. The internet is a wonderful thing…and it’s free. Things travel by word of mouth and a responsible citizen will research and watch debates and read the blogs before voting. You don’t need to travel that much or have all those fancy ads. The taxpayers don’t need to pay for that.

8. End the Fed. Inflation and an endless supply of paper money with no intrinsic value is BAD for the economy, people.

9. No more bailouts. Companies that are failing are obviously doing something wrong and NEED to fail. Thats how a competition-based system works. Bailouts will eventually support a monopoly based system. That’s not how America works.

So yeah. I don’t know anything about running the government. But spending more money that WE THE PEOPLE worked our asses off to earn on stupid governmental things that don’t benefit us seems to be…um…wrong.

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