Originally Posted by kane

So if you just shut the fed down completely and gave the money from income taxes directly to the government it doesn't change the fact that we spend a shitload of money. If you cut out all those taxes it would be billions and billions that would suddenly not be there. In order to avoid massive debt there would have to be enormous cuts. Some of the places he would cut I agree with, but some of them sound kind of crazy. It is because he has an undying faith in the free market and I happen to think in the modern age the free market is a rabid, hungry wolf that will eat her young and anyone without millions in the bank are the young.

It is all good in theory, actually carrying it out is another thing all together.