Financial Abuse

Government needs to spend less than it expects to collect in taxes and always run a surplus.  The surplus should be invested, saved in accrual accounts and used to replace critical infrastructure.   If this is ever put into practice, legislators will need to prioritize their spending and will need to ramp down spending in low priority areas and end it.  Low priority items should include anything that is not critical infrastructure like roads, bridges, highways, water supplies, water treatment facilities, sanitary sewers and storm sewers. 

Government should never take on a service that requires continual subsidies. These entities need to pay for themselves. Public transit needs to be privatized and sold to private bus companies who have the incentive to manage schedules to maximize ridership and reduce schedules when ridership is low. Government should never take on a service that could be provided by charities or the private sector.

Immigrants should be required to be self-supporting and should send their children to private schools until they are US citizens.  Immigrants should not be given a Social Security Card or regular drivers’ license until they become US citizens.  Immigrants should not be eligible for government welfare benefits in the US.  Refugees should not be admitted at all in the US, but housed in camps in their own countries and sent home quickly.

Government employees should have their defined benefit pension plans terminated and the balances rolled over to 401K Plans.  Government employees should not be eligible to form labor unions for collective bargaining purposes.  Strikes, protests and walk-outs should be prohibited.

Government employee wages should be based on valid market rates for their skills. Retirement plan matches should be based on market averages. Employee contributions to 401K Plans should not be limited. Government employees should have the same tools used by their private sector counterparts to ensure productivity.

Healthcare and Education need to be returned to the Private Sector. Government services are overpriced and underperforming and are not unsustainable. Government subsidies for healthcare and education need to be reduced over time to zero. Consumers need to control the prices in Healthcare and Education using supply and demand.

The US National Debt needs to be reduced back to $5 trillion and unfunded liabilities reduced by 80%. Government needs to privatize most of its activities and become compliant with the US Constitution  (as written).

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader