Joe Scarborough’s “Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day” declared 'yes'":
The book
shows that Democrats and President George Bush with the Republican
Congress are “bankrupting America by launching the biggest spending
spree in the history of the United States.”
Former Congressman
Scarborough from his experience in the Contact with America Republican
Revolution shows that a machine such as in the movie “Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington” runs America.
Scarborough writes convincingly that
America is being bankrupt by “political intrigue in the bowels of
Congress” as one reviewer said. If this is true then the question is how
do we stop the ruining of the USA.
The book’s solution is the
“Taxpayer Bill of Rights.” I will quote in full Joe Scarborough’s “Ten
Proposals to Save America.” On page180-181 Scarborough writes:
“Frank
Luntz, the pollster who wrote the first Contract with America, has
devised a new set of reforms he calls the "Taxpayers Bill of Rights."
It's a series of measures that would simplify how Washington ...
restrain how they spend it. I have borrowed from Luntz's proposal and
combined his ideas with my political reforms; I believe these ten
proposals would change the way Washington works:
I. Ban congressmen, senators, and White House officials from lobbying for five years.
2.
Freeze the pay of congressmen, senators, and White House officials
until the federal budget is balanced. This includes cost-of-living
adjustments!
3. Force political candidates to immediately scan and
post all campaign contributions on their campaign website. Failure to do
so results in criminal penalties.
4. Pass term limits now! Since the
House of Representatives authorizes the federal spending, limit House
members to three terms (six years).
5. Make Congress and every
Washington bureaucracy undergo an independent, professional audit, line
by line, program by program, every four years.
6. Pass a
constitutional amendment requiring Washington to balance the budget
every year except when Congress passes a resolution declaring a national
emergency.
7. Create a federal rainy-day fund that would set aside
one-half of one percent of all tax receipts each year for national,
state, and local emergencies.
8. Reenact pay-as-you-go rules that
would require Congress to offset new spending programs and tax cuts with
spending cuts from other programs.
9. Reinstitute congressional
spending caps that would force congressmen or senators to live within
their previous spending projections. These caps will not be broken
unless Congress passed a separate resolution declaring a national
emergency described in number 6.
10. Pass a new American tax code
written by a bipartisan panel of budget experts instead of the lobbyist
groups who regularly carve out special-interest deductions and greatly
simplify the tax system.”
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