Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy being in charge of the incoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is perhaps one of the most exciting ideas from President-elect Donald Trump.
Through it, you could have a true change in government. That’s likely one of the reasons that the powers that be are fighting to separate Musk and Trump, and back him out of the equation. They’re afraid of free media and they’re afraid of the change this could bring to government.
Javier Milei has shown what can be done. He’s turned a deficit into a surplus for the first time in more than 100 years in their country, and in such a short time in office.
It may take a little longer for us, but how do you do it? With commitment, will and afuera!
These are not new thoughts, it’s just the will that’s been missing.
Musk cited remarks from Ronald Reagan from 1975, before he was president. But it’s all kinds of sense when it comes to tax policy as he explains that even then the government was taking about half of what Americans earn. Reagan spoke out against taxes on businesses that the left pushes but then end up landing on the people.
“We oughta have tax reform, and we oughta start by making it so simple you don’t have to hire a lawyer to figure out how much you owe every year,” Reagan said.
“We live in the only country in the world where it takes more brains to figure out your income tax than it does to earn the income,” he quipped.
“There’s very little that government can do as efficiently and economically that people can’t do themselves. And If government would shut the doors and sneak away for three weeks, we’d never miss ’em.”
That is so true and takes on special meaning when the powers that be are always threatening government shutdowns to try to get bad bills passed.
Then Reagan really nails the problem of the “unelected bureaucracy” that truly determines more policy than the Congress of the United States (and now, may just have been running the country for the last four years).
Reagan foreshadows DOGE and Sen. Rand Paul’s Festivus report when he explains how they spent $249,000 on a study about the “Demography of Happiness.”
What did it find? He explains it found out that young people were happier than old people, they found out that people who earned more were happier than people who earned less. And they found out that well people were happier than sick people. “That’s $249,000 to find out it’s better to be rich, young and healthy than old, poor, and sick.”
The answer to curing inflation is a balanced budget, Reagan declared. He knew that then, we all know it. Yet Democrats and many in Congress of both parties are contend to spend like it’s going out of style, without any consideration for the effect. The effect under Biden was crushing prices on everybody.
Carson said you have to spend less than what you take in.
Reagan responded, “It’s like protecting your virtue. You have to learn to say ‘No.'” That killed Johnny Carson.
Then, Reagan said why can’t we have a law that every time a member of Congress introduces a spending program, he has to introduce a tax program to pay for it, and let the people find out. Then you’d really have a slowing of spending if it always had a consequence that people could see.
How much of a tangle is everything in? The Office of Management and Budget can’t even tell you how many “boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments there are in the federal government.”
We’ve been talking about this for almost 50 years. We’re at a point where the words are more true than ever and where we now have a golden opportunity.
You finally have Trump, Musk, and Ramaswamy with the force and the will. Now, they need to harness that same common sense and make it happen, despite the people who will try to stand in their way.
