Pass on to anyone who will listen and may have influence.  Trump, Musk and Ramswamy need ideas, and one is that they ought to be incentivizing instead of antagonizing the “deep state” entrenched bureaucrats, and here’s an idea of how to do it effectively so you have the bureaucrats on your side – good idea?   If Trump et. al. are sincere, this is a fool proof way to deal with the situation.

Offer all Federal employees a 20% raise, but contingent upon 20% of the employees being terminated either by early retirement, or firing (with a 6 month severance – keep it sweet!).  Now, note below that 38% of the federal employee pay package is benefits.

Below from a Google search:

According to available data, the federal government typically contributes around 38% of a federal employee’s annual salary towards benefits, making up a significant portion of their overall compensation package. 

Now, 38% of 20% = 7.6% automatic reduction in government spending.  Seeing as how a 1% reduction can’t be pushed through Congress, that’s pretty significant.  What that amounts to is that 4 out of every 5 Federal employees will be on Donald Trump’s side, because you know they want a 20% raise in pay, and everyone knows that 20% of the workforce in the Federal government is superfluous, and probably much higher, so the efficiency of government would not be adversely affected.  In two years, you can do the same thing again, and this time it will be 20% of the remaining 80% which means an equivalent of 16% of the work force is eliminated.  38% of 16% = 6.08%, so now you’ve reduced the payroll outflow even more!  7.6% + 6.08% = 13.68% reduction in government outflow without a whimper!!!  Yes, you will have a short term gap where expenses will go up to accommodate this approach, although at the end of 4 years, the Federal payroll will be reduced by nearly $40 billion! 

So called “company” cars and gas expense and toll roads maintenance etc. will amount to more billions!  Not only that, but there’s the overhead for office space, utilities, equipment etc. that totals billions more.  Then there are the various meetings which include hotel expenses, food expenses, entertainment expenses and speaker expenses.  That would total more billions.  Conservatively.  Realistically, this approach would reduce government spending by at least $75 billion a year, and likely a lot more! I have not taken into consideration the cost of bribes which likely will go down with this idea and reduced regulations.

More importantly, the remaining bureaucrats would have fewer regulations to enact and oversee, and therefore would not be overburdened by the workload from fewer employees because Trump would eliminate many regulations as he said he would and as he did first time around.  Regulations cost businesses in America around $5 trillion.  Reduced regulations will reduce costs by easily $2 Trillion!

From another Google search:

The cost of federal regulations in the United States varies by estimate, but is generally in the billions of dollars: 

• $3.079 trillionThe National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) estimates that federal regulations cost the U.S. economy this amount in 2022, which is 12% of the U.S. GDP. 
• $2.1 trillionThe Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) estimates that the federal regulatory burden costs the average household more than $15,000 per year, and totals $2.1 trillion in additional annual costs to Americans. 
• $300 billionThe Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimates that existing regulations cost approximately $300 billion annually.

The cost of federal regulations falls unevenly on the economy and on firms of different sizes. For example, small manufacturers with fewer than 50 employees pay an average of $50,100 per employee in compliance costs. The Cato Institute estimates that the average US firm spends between 1.3 and 3.3 percent of its total wage bill on regulatory compliance.

So, with my two suggestions we have exceeded Elon Musk’s estimated reduction in the budget by $100 billion!  I think that’s a conservative estimate, and in percentages, the reduced regulations and reduced employees in the Federal government will lead to massively increased tax revenues which will allow us to reduce our deficit without using devalued dollars. Sounds too good to be true, but it is true! An additional bonus will be the dramatic increase in U.S. exports making us dominant in world economies – second to none – not even close to second – NUMERO UNO!

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