What 5 functions currently assumed by .Gov would you return to the states?

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With the recent spate of gun legislation that is being carried out on a statewide level, a friend of mine asked my what five functions of government do I think should be returned to the states.

My biggest ones are control of the educational system (as I am a former educator), and of course (as recently legislation has shown) the ability to control intrastate commerce.

Dr. Paul wants to do away with a lot of the acronymed Federal depts like Education, Homeland Security, Commerce, Health & Human Services, and FEMA.

Any thing that sticks out in your ideology?
 
I would prefer that they be privatized, but returning them to the state level would be a step forward.
 
Education (Destroy the Dept of Education, allow formore education alternatives)
Health (destroy the new healthcare bill, medicare, mediacaid, the FDA)
Drugs (End the War on drugs, dismantle the DEA)

those are the main ones... honestly if you free those up that's the bulk of the major offenses

Then get rid of the Income Tax and Federal Reserve

Get rid of the FDIC and all securities regulation regarding compensation and prudency, and in sets time frame for private securities registrars to formed for private market disclosure and then sell the SEC in pieces to them.
 
Also I would return control of food production back to the states and eliminate the USDA. It's proven time and again that it is a patsy for large agri-business lobbyists and special interest groups.
 
the biss said:
Also I would return control of food production back to the states and eliminate the USDA. It's proven time and again that it is a patsy for large agri-business lobbyists and special interest groups.
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OH YEAH, dergulating food would fix a WHOLE LOT of problems
 
"Interstate commerce" needs to be explicated, articulated, and re-de-limited, yesterday.

Then "general welfare."

Then "unreasonable" (4th amendment).

I'm sure there are a couple other issues close in importance to those, but first we need somehow to have a little "language summit" involving our entire country, since the above phrases, which form the bedrock of crucial American values, seem to have have lost any and all practical legislative purpose, and the ridiculous inertia of their ambiguity has been at the root of several very bad judicial/legislative trends.

We're about to tear each other's throats out because we can't clarify what some pantalooned wig-wearers meant when they wrote our Big Law Thingy, for crying out loud.
 
Hmmm...a hard list to make, but I'll give it a shot:

1. Re-enact the Tenth Amendment.
2. Taxation.
3. Health care.
4. Education.
5. Firearms.
 
1) Education
2) Income taxing.
3) Economic Regulation
4) Coining money. (Returning since they stole it at the Constitutional convention :P)
5) Any gun related laws.
 
I'll start with these:

Dept. of Education
HEW (Health, Education & Welfare)
CIA
IRS
Homeland Security /FEMA
Federal Reserve :D
 
Since my list would just read like everyone else I'm going to list a few parts of government I would KEEP!

US Coast Guard
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Smithsonian Institute
Library of Congress
Peace Corps
U.S. Geological Survey (maps)
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)

-t
 
Monetarization
Surveillance
Propaganda
Taxation
Legislation.

Not necessarily in that order.
 
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