Job 1 should be to simplify the tax code
No more favored groups or exemptions for any person, business, or corporation.
The fact that 46.7 million earners pay no income tax creates moral hazard - incentives for perverse behavior: Free-riding people have scant incentive to restrain the growth of government they are not paying for with income taxes.(George Will)The same goes for business and corporations who escape taxation. Our tax code encourages people to hide their money instead of investing it in the marketplace. It chases money overseas in search of more fertile markets. It favors industries like homebuilding and mortgage lending over other productive activities. This creates market inefficiencies and bubbles. Tear it all down and let the capital flow to the projects proved worthy on the merits of the free marketplace.
The Crushing Weight of the Federal Code
The next step would be to burn down the warehouses full of the hopelessly impenetrable and exemption-riddled federal code. You can go explore it for yourself Here. It's searchable! The word 'feces' returns 91 hits, "candle" returns 120. Yikes! "Saudi" is mentioned in the federal code 119 times, and not once related to terrorism or spreading virulent hatred disguised as religion...
The federal code is an abomination. Burn it down to the constitutional foundation! It is a mockery of the law and a standing, stinking violation of the very concept of the rule of law.
Restore the 9th and 10th Amendments
The federal government should turn everything back to the states that is not mentioned in the constitution.
The states should then restore the sovereignty of the individual by relinquishing those tasks better left to free men and women.
To see where this rant comes from, go read Toqueville's "Democracy in America," Part 1, Chapter 4: The Principle of the Sovereignty of the People in America, and Chapter 8: Aspects of the Federal Constitution.
