Saving Congress from Itself: Emancipating the States and Empowering Their People
A Politics book. This short monograph by the former NY senator (aka Bill's brother) offers one sweeping...
Saving Congress from Itself proposes a single reform: eliminate all federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments. This action would reduce federal spending by over $600 billion a year and have a profound effect on how we govern ourselves. The proliferation of federal grants-in-aid programs is of recent vintage: only about 100 such grants existed before Lyndon Johnson took office, and now they number more than 1,100. Eliminating grants to the states will result in enormous savings in federal and state administrative costs; free states to set their own priorities; and improve the design and implementation of programs now subsidized by Washington by eliminating federal regulations that attend the grants. In short, it will free states and their subdivisions to resume full responsibility for all activities that fall within their competence, such as education, welfare, and highway construction and maintenance. And because members of Congress spend major portions of their time creating grants and allocating funds assigned to them (think...
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According to the latest Gallup poll, only 11% of Americans approve of Congress job performance, but virtually every senator or representative who runs for reelection will receive it. Americans want Congress to do more, even as the institution proves itself incapable of doing much of anything. The problem lies not merely in entrenched... A good, short primer on why there's no such as free federal money and how the states are becoming, or have become, wards of the federal government. While it's doubtful Buckley's prescription for stemming the flood of federal spending will happen, it's an eye-opening read. This short monograph by the former NY senator (aka Bill's brother) offers one sweeping change to how we govern in this country--eliminate all grants from the federal government to the states. The reasons for doing so are the bulk of the book, so I won't recapitulate them here. Basically, these grants (totaling about $640B in the most...
