Limited Government

President Ronald Reagan said it best when he said, “Man is not free unless government is limited.”

Government continues to grow at a staggering pace. And now they have added health care. At what point will our current representative in Washington stop. Unless “We the People” hold our leaders accountable for their actions, they will never be satisfied.

In order to limit and control government, we must put hard controls on how much government can collect in taxes and how much they can spend. And to control them we must tie spending to a percentage of the country’s GDP. This will ensure a hard cap on government spending and will protect the taxpayers from over zealous taxation.

We must remember the words of Thomas Jefferson:
“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.”

Less Regulation

You cannot have a smaller or limited government without addressing the power of the bureaucracies to regulate our lives and business. Today it takes businesses far too long to build new buildings and factories because of the regulations imposed by the Federal government. This hurts our competitiveness with countries that have less regulation. Our regulatory burden forces businesses to move their factories to these less regulated countries.

We must change the mindset of government so that it will work with business and encourage growth and development, not hinder. The congress needs to develop requirements for the various Federal departments to ensure that they work with American businesses to make the country strong economically.

Our representative must remember that the Constitution was made to regulate and restrict government not regulate and restrict people’s God given freedoms.