Here's Rick Perry's Audacious Plan To Completely Reinvent The U.S. Government

Here are the highlights:

• Cut Congressional pay in half and make Congress a part-time job. If they don't pass a balanced budget by 2020, Perry would cut Congressional pay in half again 
• Bring spending down to 18% GDP
• Criminalize "insider trading" by members of Congress
• Pass legislation requiring a two-thirds Congressional majority to pass any tax increases
• End life-time appointments of federal judges
• Pass a Constitutional amendment setting 18-year terms for Supreme Court justices
• Issue a moratorium on pending federal regulations
• Eliminate the Department of Commerce, Department of Education, and Department of Energy
• Overhaul the Department of Homeland Security and privatize airport security
• Downsize the Environmental Protection Agency "so it no longer torments job creators or gives an official stamp to phony science."
• Privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
• And of course, end federal funding of Planned Parenthood

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