After Guns and Abortion, Then What?
what do Commoners want and need from government?
It seems like forever that conservatives have obsessed about guns and unlimited abortion. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment really means what it says about guns and that abortion is not a federal human right hidden in a penumbra and an emanation, but an issue that state legislatures should address, there almost seems like an issue vacuum.
OK. Nature abhors a vacuum so let’s go to work.
I’d say first up is education. I’d say that the gubmint-bureaucrat-run education of the last nearly two centuries since Horace Mann and his “common school” is the best candidate for reform. And here is my Three Point Plan:
Make government employee unions illegal, as a form of insurrection.
Universal vouchers, so parents can send their children to the school of their choice.
An end to teacher credentialization.
That’s not so hard.
Next up is American Empire. It’s time to bring our troops home and buff up the Navy so it can descend upon pirates threatening container ships and tankers. In my view American Empire has been a disaster ever since President Wilson sent the doughboys from On Moonlight Bay to fight the Germans. Why not let the Euros fight it out on their own? And then to punish the Germans with a Mongol-era reparations peace plan with the Treaty of Versailles? Hello Hitler? My Three Point Plan is:
End NATO and make the Europeans grow up and run their own defense.
Stop meddling in the Middle East, except to defend Israel.
Cut the “intelligence community” from 17 to 2.5 intelligence agencies.
Finally, deregulate the regulatory state. I don’t know how to do this, but we really need to cut the educated class out of its current power to direct traffic from 1,001 regulatory agencies. We need to free America from the imperialism and the colonization of, by, and for the snobs of the educated class.
I would also really like to replace Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, Student Loans with a Great America Savings Plan. It would like a mega IRA that you can use for all the big things in life, from retirement to end-of-life health care to unemployment to kids’ education, and if you choose it then you opt out of Social Security, Medicare, etc., and do it yourself from your Great American Savings Account at Fidelity, Vanguard, whatever. The only problem is that if you cut federal spending in half then our liberal friends will find a way to spend the money on other free stuff. Milton Friedman once wrote that the government, every government, collects as much as the traffic will bear in taxes and spends as much as the traffic will bear on loot and plunder. I take that to mean that if we relieve the Feds of the cost of Social Security our liberal friends will find another way to buy votes with that money.
Of course, I propose to save the planet from climate change with Build Nukes Now. But that is obvious.