The idea that we need 100,000 police and 100,000 teachers supplied by the feds is a perversion of our Constitution. We will put on web and publish in our newsletter. We also should take a look at Labor and Commerce. Most of these, along with Education and Energy were patronage deals to pay off supporters like teachers unions, labor unions, and business. Of all of the wastes we have, it is perhaps number one.
Education is properly a state function.
The feds simply recycle tax dollars to the states after taking their cuts. Of course, we should eliminate waste and inefficiency, but the question of function is more fundamental. To be against a federal department means that you support education, but close to the local level where it is done with more accountability. The flat tax is one way to more clearly see the relation between taxes and spending. But that is a tax plan.