The first ten days of the new Trump Administration

By Walter E. Block

What should President Elect Trump (my oh, my, I like the sound of that!) do in the first ten days of his new administration? Here are some suggestions:

Form a commission to get to the bottom of the ballot box cheating which undoubtedly took place four years ago. The voting patterns alone make a strong case that this did indeed occur. There was a 20 million vote gap between the totals garnered by Biden and Harris. This alone is more than suspicious. Then there was the cemetery “vote,” that went against our next president. It is time, it is past time, to get at the full unvarnished truth on this matter, wherever the chips may lie. At least one Democrat should be on this commission.

Another commission should be set up to determine just who it was that has been running the country for the last two years or so; it certainly was not senile Joe Biden; talk about practicing being president of the US without a license. Those people, whoever they are and were, were not elected to the presidency of the US, and should not have been acting in any such capacity. They should be brought to justice.

A third commission should look carefully and lovingly into the lawfare to which our new 47th President has been all too thoroughly subjected. He is a “convicted felon” with several more lawsuits still pending over him. A meticulous exploration of how the rule of law has been under attack in his case is long overdue. Our country should not be one given over private vendettas which have too long been plaguing him.

Mr. Trump should encourage the two most elderly conservative members of the Supreme Court to retire early during his administration, lest a “Ruth Bader Ginsberg” episode impact the Republican Party.

Now for some more radical suggestions.

Our next president should strongly consider expanding the Supreme Court to 15 members. There is precedent for this sort of thing which has emanated from the Democratic Party. To do so would attain the highest reaches of poetic justice. At least form a commission to evaluate this. If that doesn’t scare the pants off the bad guys, nothing will.

Mr. Trump should seriously explore the issue of adding two more states to the present roster, another policy articulated by the socialist party. Only of course, he would not contemplate adding Washington DC or Puerto Rico to the present assembly. How, then, to increase the number of states? One possibility it to break up Texas and Florida into two states each. Then, we would have both East and West Texas, and North and South Florida. This worked for Virginia and West Virginia, and North and South Dakota and the Carolinas, why not Texas and Florida? I don’t say he should do this. I have too much respect for our traditions. But I would like to see the commies squirm, just a bit. Thus, his administration should at least “explore” these options.

Do not make Canada the 51st state. They are even more woke than California. If you do this, Republicans will have great difficulty ever winning any more elections. This will play right into the hands of the Democrats.

Reverse every policy toward Israel adopted by the Biden Administration. This President has been at best a fair weather friend the Jewish state. He continually admonished, and threatened, Bibi Netanyahu, to compromise, pause, cease fire, “take the win,” do not bomb Iranian nuclear developments or oil fields, do not enter Gaza, leave Gaze, negotiate with that band of monstrous criminals, Hamas, and its mentor, Iran. Thanks to him, the IDF has been forced to fight its enemies with one hand tied behind its back. Never again.

Now to step it up even a bit more, this time on the basis of radical libertarianism.

End the Fed! With Ron Paul as one of his new advisors, a magnificent choice, this should be an easy one.

Privatize all of the roads, streets and highways. Some 40,000 deaths occur on these socialist thoroughfares every year. This puts into the shade, the deep shade, the number of murders resulting from our porous Swiss Cheese southern border (mostly holes, very little cheese there). Ditto for defunding the police, another leftist nostrum. If all public cops disappeared tomorrow, the resulting additional murders would be far fewer (private police would see to this) than the number of people killed on our nation’s highways.

Privatize lakes, aquifers and rivers. The Army Corp of Engineers in effect “owns” the Mississippi River, upon which 1900 New Orleanians perished during Katrina. This was due, solely, to the failure of the levies. These government bureaucrats are still in charge of this facility! No private owners would be able to get away with anything like that. Let the Trump Administration be known, far and wide, as the radical private property rights administration.

Here are a few more: No more anti trust. Free business to better serve customers. Ban unions which violate the rights of scabs to take their places during strikes. No more minimum wage laws, which unemploy those least able to bear joblessness. Sayonara to rent control, which reduces the supply of residential housing, thus, paradoxically, raises rents, and promotes homelessness.

I do disagree with #47 on tariffs. I regard that as economics 101 material.  Do you really want to raise these taxes on Argentina? On Israel? On other friends? Adam Smith said it best on this subject, way back on 1776. If goods don’t cross borders, armies will. All this is from an economic point of view. As a bargaining chip, to deal with drugs, illegal immigrants, foreign enemies, using tariffs is a political issue, not an economic one.

Godspeed in reducing, eliminating, needless wars, seemingly all over the planet. If anyone can wave a magic wand in this regard, our man Donald can do it.

Walter Block is the author of books advocating radical privatization:

Block, Walter E. 2009. The Privatization of Roads and Highways; Auburn, AL: The Mises Institute; http://mises.org/books/roads_web.pdf

Block, Walter E. and Peter Lothian Nelson. 2015. Water Capitalism: The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers. New York City, N.Y.: Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield