In the overall conduct of the government, there should be limits on their actions and what aspects of the nations power they can control. In specific, what control the government should have over the economy and the markest.
The government should have limitations on their national budget. In regard to the current National Debt, there is no reason to continue spending the way that the government has been spending for years now. They should be attempting to slow spending and lowering the deficit. The government should have the control to set a budget and spend it not the exact budget, then under the budget., because there is no point to a budget if people are constantly spending over it. There are reasons that people place budgets, it is to creats a guideline for businesses, like the government, to spend within their means. So, in the end there is no reason for the government to continue spending as much as we do, so we should spend below the budget and use the surplus to work on paying off our growing debts.
Another aspect of the economy that could be altered by the government for the good of the country is the current tax system. This does not mean change the entire tax code, simply make it more understandable and less dense. There is no reason for the tax code to be as long as it is, and there is no reason for there to be as many excemptions from the law as there are. The government should have the authority to reform the tax code to make them more understandable for they people that have to pay them. There is no reason that there should be a tax code so complex that no one person understands what all the codes are.
There happens to be another thing that the government is able to control, and that is the relations and laws placed on outside trading partners of the United States. The united States governing force should have the ability to tax and fine not only the companies that sell things to the united states, but also for compaines that sell out of the country to other nations. THe united Nations should find some sort of law or bill that can create more equal trading around the world. This goes for the transportation of a product, to the production and man power used to create a product, as well as the resources used in the product. There is no reason that something produced in China costs less than the same product produced in the united states other than that there are labor laws in the U.S. Therefore, the government should be able to set regulations for all companies that do business with the U.S.
back to the relations between the government and corperations, in that governments should be able to control the enforcement of the national laws on companies but they should not be able the bail out a corperation or company. There is no logical reason for a government to bail out a corperation unless they have planned actions to make their business more financialy stable. Under most circumstances, a company that goes under fails because the management is not efficent enough and they can not keep a company going. If the government simply give a company money to keep them afloat they're actually hurting the economy because they are giving money to a company that will most likley no be able to pay them back. However, there are exceptions to this, and if companies are capable of planing in order to improve their company then theoreticaly they should be helped.
Overall there are things that a government should do, and what they can do. In the end, it is all based on peoples opinions of the subject.
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