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Opinion

Time to Clean House — A Modest Proposal Of What Fed Departments Should Get Chopped

The Donald is planning to clean house by eliminating various departments, agencies, etc. Here is a list of what needs to go.

  • Department of Education
  • Department of Energy
  • Transportation Security Administration (which can be replaced with private security companies)
  • Internal Revenue Service (and the income tax replaced by a national sales tax)
  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  • Corporation for National & Community Service
  • Council on Environmental Quality
  • Export-Import Bank of the United States
  • Federal Election Commission
  • Federal Energy Regulation Commission
  • Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
  • Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
  • Federal Reserve System
  • Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
  • Legal Services Corporation
  • Medicaid and Chip Access Commission
  • Medicare Advisory Payment Commission
  • National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
  • National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
  • Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation
  • Postal Regulatory Commission
  • Presidential Commission on Election Administration
  • Small Business Administration
  • Social Security Advisory Board
  • Vietnam Education Foundation
  • White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
  • White House Council for Community Solutions
  • White House Initiative on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders

In addition, all offices of Czars, U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S. Court of International Trade, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims shall be abolished.

The following government agencies, boards, etc. can be privatized:

  • African Development Foundation
  • AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
  • Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
  • Broadcasting Board of Governors (International Broadcasting Bureau, a.k.a. Radio & TV Marti)
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  • Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
  • Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission
  • John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  • Millennium Challenge Corporation
  • Morris K. Udall & Stewart L. Udall Foundation (Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy)
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • National Gallery of Art
  • National Science Foundation
  • Northwest Power and Conservation Council
  • Overseas Private Investment Corporation
  • Peace Corps
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Social Security Administration
  • Stennis Center for Public Service Leadership
  • Tennessee Valley Authority
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • United States Postal Service (and its monopoly on mail delivery to be eliminated)
  • United States Agency for International Development
  • United States Trade and Development Agency
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Anything that cannot be privatized can be eliminated.
Hopefully the Donald can get it done.

Andrew Linn

Andrew Linn is a member of the Owensboro Tea Party and a former Field Representative for the Media Research Center. An ex-Democrat, he became a Republican one week after the 2008 Presidential Election. He has an M.A. in history from the University of Louisville, where he became a member of the Phi Alpha Theta historical honors society. He has also contributed to examiner.com and Right Impulse Media.