What to do with federal agencies?

[donttread]

Currently there are too many, with too much authority , too little ethics and or oversight, too many budget dollars and too many people in power connected to the industry they regulate.

What could we do?
1) A Flat or Fair tax would downsize the IRS dramatically
2) Only police agencies need weapons issued.
3) Stop the incest at the FDA and severely limit the time anyone serving for the agency has worked in that industry . A lifetime ban on lobbyist becoming for example FDA committee members and insistence that a high percentage of board members have no ties to the industry they regulate and never had
4) Mergers , for example INS, Border Patrol and ICE
5) Disband the ATF. All three of the things they regulate are non-prescription legal , they have a $#@!ty track record and the FBI could take over the few things they do that really matter and possibly DHS too.
6) Look to merge other agencies wherever possible
Ban lobbying to federal agencies
7) Make it legal to lie to a federal agent as lying should not be a crime unless under oath
8) De militarize them unless they are in fact the military
9) Undo there ability to make de-facto laws without congress.
10) And oh yeah, make them stay on budget.
11) Do something about the NSA and stop warrantless spying on Americans

Other suggestions?

[Orion Rules]

Currently there are too many, with too much authority , too little ethics and or oversight, too many budget dollars and too many people in power connected to the industry they regulate.

What could we do?
1) A Flat or Fair tax would downsize the IRS dramatically

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Other suggestions?

It just seems, the U.S. President, has not done a thing that could really be considered that he even really gives a damn.

'The Feral Horse Program' is a blatant lie, Bureau of Land Management aka B.L.M., sands have been found. The written law President Richard Nixon desired, as he also signed into federal law, that the 'Wild horse purchase act', is declared null and void, so turn in your portfolios.

[Captain Obvious]

Trump is smart enough to understand that sludge that needs wading through is a good place to hunker down in.

[Jets]

This was the problem with taking the states out of the equation. The framers wanted the state legislatures to appoint senators to deal with issues such as these. The line between national or state jurisdictions may have been dealt within Congress itself. Instead of passing the seventeenth amendment, maybe we should have considered a better wording of Article 1 Section 3.

[Captdon]

The start should be ridding the federal government of certain agencies. Not cutting them but closing them down. Why do we have a Dept. of Education? Why do we have HHS?

[Raffishragabash]

This was the problem with taking the states out of the equation. The framers wanted the state legislatures to appoint senators to deal with issues such as these. The line between national or state jurisdictions may have been dealt within Congress itself. Instead of passing the seventeenth amendment, maybe we should have considered a better wording of Article 1 Section 3.

This is a very intelligent perspective. It's very eerie too.

And that's because it made me wonder about if America would have never gained that, universal respect, which makes us Leader of The World over the past 90 decades? I then thought about, the problem with taking the states out of the equation; Would it be a problem, if the Homeland had instead been 50 little nations inside one Republic here, at wartime?

In the event of ...

[Don29palms]

This is a very intelligent perspective. It's very eerie too.

And that's because it made me wonder about if America would have never gained that, universal respect, which makes us Leader of The World over the past 90 decades? I then thought about, the problem with taking the states out of the equation; Would it be a problem, if the Homeland had instead been 50 little nations inside one Republic here, at wartime?

In the event of ...

I didn't know the United States was 900 years old.

[donttread]

This was the problem with taking the states out of the equation. The framers wanted the state legislatures to appoint senators to deal with issues such as these. The line between national or state jurisdictions may have been dealt within Congress itself. Instead of passing the seventeenth amendment, maybe we should have considered a better wording of Article 1 Section 3.

If we simply limited the federal government to it's Constitutional limits states rights would be reborn.

[Captdon]

This is a very intelligent perspective. It's very eerie too.

And that's because it made me wonder about if America would have never gained that, universal respect, which makes us Leader of The World over the past 90 decades? I then thought about, the problem with taking the states out of the equation; Would it be a problem, if the Homeland had instead been 50 little nations inside one Republic here, at wartime?

In the event of ...

It would never have been 50 little republics in war time. War is the federal responsibility. Read the Constitution.

[donttread]

It would never have been 50 little republics in war time. War is the federal responsibility. Read the Constitution.

Basically the feds existed to deal with other nations and moderate disbutes between the states. In other words the few things that the states couldn't effectively do for themselves. Every time the feds have usurped state power it has come with a massive loss of efficiency