"Reducing benefits of rich retirees is good. So's increasing taxes on the rich.
Eliminating NASA completely isn't a good idea. They receive less 1% of the US budget. You can eliminate planetary exploration, but there are practical space adventures like space mining. More resource supply means that they'll be less expensive.
Business owners don't think long-term, which is why they didn't convert to the much more efficient solar power. Energy department can stay, or we might never see power plants be converted to solar power. Converting power plants to solar energy instead of each individual building to solar power is much less expensive.
Letting states run education 100% has been proven to be a bad idea. If it weren't for federal intervention, quite a few states would still be teaching the Bible over real biology and abstinence would still be taught instead of practical sexual education such as using condoms, etc. Kids are going to be having sex. Might as well teach them to do it intelligently.
Before agricultural subsidies and other govt aid, farmers were in huge debt and in trouble. Those can stay.
USDHUD provides housing to people who would otherwise be homeless or in very inadequate housing. Heck, one of my friends would actually be living with a family of 5 in a studio apartment his family could barely afford (both parents working) if it weren't for the USDHUD.
I agree in cutting defense. The military doesn't need more than the 2,300 M1 Abram tanks it already has. "
See? I rationally refuted with some and agreed with other points. Plus, you can't solve the deficit by putting hundreds of thousands of people out of work and removing necessary agencies 100%. That's way too much. Stossel just looked to cut whatever costs money without looking into what he was cutting. It's like refusing to pay that $50 bill every month simply because it cost $50, only to realize that it was your electric bill.
As for your Higgs quote, anarchists need to prove their point. We're not just going to blindly trust people to fix all of our problems easily without some evidence that your system can work. If I told you that I was selling a brand new weight loss supplement that would make you lose 50 pounds in a month, would you not ask for proof?
