A Radical Idea from an Article

[Free Bird]

I remember reading an article once somewhere. It talked about ways to balance the budget, and among them was eliminating every cabinet department except for the Big Four. I assume of course that this involves also transferring the useful, Constitutional powers of the other departments to the ones that stay, but regardless of that, what do you think of the idea?

[Blue3]

Libertarian wet dream

[Free Bird]

Libertarian wet dream

Hey man, even I think this is pushing it xD

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Probably won't help, just create more gigantic bureaucracies with less oversight on top. (Assuming that the plan is to merge them into the big ones, rather than abolish them wholesale or make the states cover the gap)

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Worse than Ted Cruz's platform

[Free Bird]

Probably won't help, just create more gigantic bureaucracies with less oversight on top. (Assuming that the plan is to merge them into the big ones, rather than abolish them wholesale or make the states cover the gap)

I'm assuming the idea was to eliminate most of the unneeded bureaucracy of the others (otherwise why cut them?) and to give the few Necessary and Proper powers they once held to the Big 4

[beaver2.0]

I don't think this is a good idea, and not really that libertarian because it would just create an even stronger central government in the hands of four departments.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The Cabinet is too large and unwieldy at present and the diffusion of economic responsibility over multiple departments probably contributes to the excessive focus on military matters by presidents.

[Orser67]

I liked Ron Klain's proposal:

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http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2011-05-23/tidy-the-president-s-crowded-cabinet

[SATW]

no.

[SteveRogers]

Cabinet reorganization could probably be useful, but beyond the symbolic gesture of eliminating departments your proposal in no way identifies what, if any, programs would be cut. "Energy Department bad!" is not a policy proposal. So, no. Bad idea.

[Blue3]

I liked Ron Klain's proposal:

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That sounds much better.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2011-05-23/tidy-the-president-s-crowded-cabinet