Well, without Force no GOVERNment can survive. Only "IT" decides what IT wants to do and HOW to steal from it's "citizens" to pay for it's socialistic and "defense" objectives. All that has been the way of this world forever.

Barely wiggled a toe. They refuse to consider cutting the massive entitlements.

A first step.

Get rid of unused gov. buildings -- billions saved. However, just the red tape to excise these buildings is embarrassingly costly:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2...

they get you coming and going though. If you are retired, the state and local taxes are the big ones. If you are working and are NOT an illegal alien with lots of kids, the federal ones are the majority.we have illegal aliens working in small shops in this area, and they dont pay any income tax, and get grants for their kids (refundable tax credits). Its pretty sick

Yes. One at a time. State taxes are a paltry sum compared to Federal Income, SS, FICA, and Medicare taxes.

I really wonder about that. He cant even repeal obamacare to take effect in two years, and let the market come up with alternatives on its on in the meantime. I dont want Obamacare 2.0

right now we have a tax on everything, assets (houses and cars and "sins" as well as business property taxes), excise taxes on phones and utilities, consumption (sales) taxes, AND income taxes (city, county, state, and federal). The swamp is deep and inhabited

What you're talking about there are consumption taxes. They've been bandied about by various parties but all they really do is encourage a black market. I'd rather go back to what the Constitution enumerated (import tariffs) or a flat federal income tax like that proposed by Herman Cain and Rand Paul.

i am getting more and more interested in minimalism. What you dont spend, you dont have to make or pay taxes on. The goodies of american life are great, but there is a price and its getting too high. Lets c if Trump can slow down socialism at least a bit.

I wouldn't tempt the IRS if I were you... ;)

It would be a good step just to stop spending more than we take in every year.

Any and all for nought unless funds are returned to those they were taxed from.

I dont want to be stolen from anymore. Maybe they will have to just come and take it from me in the future by force.

See my comments below to CBJ. What you propose is unConstitutional. The role of the President is to faithfully carry out and execute the laws. We already had a President that for eight years arbitrarily chose what he was going to go irrespective of Congress. I don't think we want to repeat that just because the new President is from a different political party.

The President can advise (via a budget or talks with Congress) about certain programs, but once Congress funds them, the President is bound by the Constitution to carry them out.

Excellent start! can I add:

8) Auction all vacant property and land to the private sector and reduce the BLM accordingly.

Can he demand 10% cut in ALL agency budgets at least?

I'll be thrilled when he starts dumping entire useless agencies all together. Another pet peeve I have is all the government owned lands outside of designated national parks, sell it to buyers who must pay the comparable tax rate other land owners pay.
My state, NY owns millions of acres of land in what it calls parks, all paid for by our tax dollars, and the first thing they do is restrict access to the public tax payers by many means. I have heard it said that 95% of these park lands are only ever seen by 2% of the people. 18-30 somethings who are in shape and willing to hike 5-10 miles in to some remote sight or pond in the deep forests.

what a unique idea. he will have a fight to just do what he said in the article. It would be a good start, tho.

The swamp is very deep and has a lot of alligators. If cutting these programs can be done by exec order, he should just DO IT. We elected him to accomplish these things. If the congresspeople wont go along, they should be voted out.

Yep. Let Big Bird run off merchandising and Netflix.

At long last, Public TV on the list of cuts, about time! They should have been self supporting long ago. Also NEA, Natl. Endowment for the Arts, which has been way liberal.

Here are some executive orders to cut spending
1. No agency can spend more then $350/hr on lawyers consultants, or experts including expenses. This will make firms use the bright young people.
2. No agency can hire ad or PR firms for advertising to or informing the public.
3. Each agency must reduce its leased office apace by 15%.
4. No agency can lease charter or own an airplane or boat except for operational functions ie firefighting Supply etc
5 No agency can send more than 15 people to a conference or meeting.
Lots more where these came from but its billions
and
6 Close 25 military bases in US and 35 abroad.
7. Sell 20% of all Govt cars by 2018

Precisely ;)

By that standard, only the Departments of State, Treasury, Defense and Justice would survive. And that should be the goal, whether you whittle it down to that gradually or do it all at once.