With nearly 13 million Americans unable to find work and a national debt hurtling relentlessly towards $17 trillion, something must be done to get America back on track.
Congress must get federal spending under control and end its reckless abuse of taxpayer money.
Heritage Foundation vice president David Addington has identified six conservative policies that can save the American Dream. He urges Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to include them in his forthcoming 2013 budget proposal.
- Tighten the Budget. Congress should make thoughtful spending cuts, reducing the amount spent each year.
- Balance the Budget. The budget should balance in the next 10 years, ensuring our government is not spending beyond its means.
- Reform Entitlements. Congress should repeal Obamacare, reform spending on programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and impose caps on welfare spending.
- Don’t Hike Taxes. Avoiding tax hikes is critical to allowing economic growth and stemming the tide of big government.
- Enact Job-Creating, Pro-Growth Tax Reform. “Congress should revise the tax code to establish strong economic incentives for job-creating saving and investment by abolishing a wide range of taxes and reducing the income tax structure to a single rate, or at most two.”
- Protect a Strong National Defense. Weakening national defense in order to balance the budget is unacceptable. Our government must be poised to defend its citizens, and irresponsible government spending should not cause Americans’ lives to be put at risk.
Read Addington’s full proposal.
The Heritage Foundation has developed a comprehensive plan, Saving the American Dream, that outlines how lawmakers can put these policies into action.
What do you think must be done to save the American Dream?
kebozarth - March 16, 2012
How do you propose to pay off debt with more monetary credit/debt in order to underwrite our economy? i.e. Monetary Authority’s (FED’s) monopoly of the issuance of its credit circulating as if “money” created out of nothing to which creates an equivalent debt plus interest owed and insuring perpetual increasing federal public monetary policy of public debt.
This is a contract of impossible performance, negative sum game, old English practice of perpetual funding and slavery.
Debt = is slavery. Proverbs 22:7.
This is a Claim on our God-given unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and Property; Rights which Heaven gave and no man ought to take from us; the subject matter of our July 4, 1776 Unanimous Declaration of Independence.
“That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
The Monetary Authority (FED), by its very nature, is hostile to these ends and has within it the seeds of its own destruction.