Me too. I would end all taxation, fire 90% of all government employees and permanently cap the number of federal employees. I would cause the government to fund itself through tariffs. I would impose a permanent cap on the percentage that can be imposed with one exception and that would be if a foreign country imposed a higher tariff on us. That should cause them to lower their rate which would mandatorily cause our rate to go down our tariffs.
This is how the United States of America started (with the exception of the tariff balancing that I would impose.
I would throw out 90% of all legislation that had been signed into law since about 1900, maybe earlier.
I would force states to permanently remove all property tax. Houses should be bought and sold just like a pack of chewing gum and taxes accordingly. The same with cars and firearms. Maybe I'd keep the background check for firearms, there are still too many crazies who don't need any kind of weapon, left a lone a firearm. But the person would have to be certified as unstable by a panel of qualified psychiatrists. Definitions of who is unstable cannot be changed based on political ideology and the psychiatrists would have to be evenly split based on political ideology. No one ideological bias cannot be introduced into their assessments.
After I did that, I would pack my bags and go home. Americans would be free again and, therefore, America would be great again.
"Do you have any credible studies to back this up?"
Studies? It's what Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and Tom Homan have been saying, over and over. And the fact that so far they haven't lied. Like the convicts that Trump sent to Columbia but some liberal lower court judge some made Trump bring them back for absolute no valid reason. The ones that ICE was trying to deport in LA were murderers.
"Some leftists, yes. Not all of them"
You're the kind that don't exist to the rest of the leftists. You're supposed to blindly march in lockstep with the party leaders or else you get excommunicated. Like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. One of these days Bill Maher is going to lose his show. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already.
"One reason people in other countries think Trump is ridiculous is because he is... ridiculous."
Not everyone. I was in Scotland last year and while politics was not something I brought up, some of the people we ran into did bring it up. Of the people who wanted to talk politics with us, most of them liked Trump.
I think there are just as many people in other countries that are just as disgusted with the extreme leftist bias that the major news networks are pushing on everyone.
"Has the US ever had a president that's quite so ridiculous?"
What's ridiculous about Trump? Name a politician who isn't a narcissist. Obama was a major narcissist. Socialism and all of it's variants appeal heavily to narcissists, either those who crave power and control and those who demand the government give them everything.
Perhaps the most ridiculous president we have ever had was the one just before Trump. Not only did the left knowingly put a senile old man in charge of this country but incredibly he magically got more votes than any other president before or after him. Somewhere an extra 20 million voters showed up for that election and then just disappeared for the election after that. Biden was just a puppet. He wanted elected by the majority of this country, it was large scale voter fraud.
The Trump that ran in 2024 sounded like he might be the best president we've had in a very long time. But as you are a leftist then you wouldn't understand why I say that. Economics. It turns out that free market economics has leftist more people out of the miserable poverty than any other economic idea that man has ever devised. Socialism and its variants, on the other hand, causes the worst kind of poverty. Trump is a free-market guy, finally.
