12 recommendations from American students for their new president

We are publishing 12 recommendations for the new US president less than a month before his inauguration. They were sent to us specifically by the students of Prof. Alexander Tokarev at Northwood University in Michigan, USA.

1. Like Reagan, Trump has chosen crappy predecessors. With this clever move, he has made it much easier to be a good president. Unlike Reagan, however, Trump has no experience in the public sector. Although many of his enemies point to this as a huge disadvantage, this very fact puts him in an unprecedentedly advantageous position to “drain the swamp.” The greatest threat to America’s freedom and prosperity is not Russia, China, the Islamic “state” and other foreign enemies. The most dangerous to us are government officials in the District of Columbia. It is encouraging to see a large number of “outsiders” brought to the capital to take the reins of government. These are the only people who have the desire and the means to stand up to bureaucratic tyranny and economic lobbying. Their goal should be one: to review the entire system of federal laws and identify every rule that takes from one person’s property to give to another. Such rules legalize theft. The law should treat such government acts as armed bank robbery.

2. Most federal agencies must be eliminated. The fight against these parasites must be ruthless. Trump’s political legacy depends on whether he can, in the first 100 days of his presidency, implement the radical changes that independent voters expect from such an unorthodox leader. Expectations are high for him – to succeed, the Reagan “revolution” must look like child’s play compared to Trump’s reforms. To gain the necessary mandate in the midterm elections in two years, the president must start with unprecedented tax cuts for the middle class, significant relief from regulatory jungles and taxes for American manufacturers, ending most subsidies, and eliminating loopholes in the federal tax system.

3. The lower the taxes on labor and all profit-making activities, the more wealth the economy will generate, more jobs will be created, the standard of living of ordinary people will rise, and the country will unite behind the policies of its president. Regulations are much more harmful than taxes. Legal obstacles not only do not generate revenue in the budget, but they provide established businesses and political manipulators with wonderful opportunities to limit competition and extract financial advantages. Trump must starve the monster that feeds big unions and corporations, sucking the life out of the middle-class taxpayer, the American consumer, and the independent worker.

4. The only way to drain the political swamp and stop the trade in influence is to put the three branches of government back within their constitutional framework. Lobbying grows in proportion to government interference in the markets. The Supreme Court in America has abdicated its most important duties and has allowed presidents to act like emperors. The United States Congress has actively cooperated in sabotaging the rule of law by creating agencies charged with unconstitutional lawmaking. The vicious practice of unelected bureaucrats creating rules with the force of law must end once and for all. The reason for this is clear: appoint Supreme Court justices who know that the Constitution means exactly what it says, not what is politically expedient.

5. The past century has been a time of massive violations of the human rights of American citizens by their governments. Among the most common examples of theft of life, liberty, and private property are minimum wage laws, licensing regulations, and welfare. The first two take away the freedom of employer and employee (or producer and consumer) to exchange what belongs to them on mutually beneficial terms. This results in a massive theft of job opportunities from young people and minorities while protecting union members from competition from their low-skilled counterparts. Welfare steals money from hardworking people and strips those who receive it of their dignity because of their own failures as workers. The system rewards a multitude of vices, multiplying poverty and stealing the future of the most vulnerable.

6. Among the most dangerous thieves in this country are unions. Trump should work with state governors to push through and strengthen “right to work” laws. Every worker has the right to join a professional organization, but no union has the right to force workers to join or to pay them as a condition of employment. The right to private property is the foundation of capitalism, and the essence of private property is the ability to use it as you wish so long as it does not infringe on the inherent rights of others. Business owners should be guaranteed the right to hire and fire, to buy and sell, or to refuse services on criteria they choose. We may not like some of the results, but it is a small price to pay to preserve our freedom.

7. The most obvious is the harmful influence of unions in public schools. For the first time since the rise of progressivism in America, we see a chance to fix our broken education system. Trump has a real chance to break the toxic influence of the union racketeers who created the insane seniority rules. In the current climate, young and motivated professionals are being blocked in order to protect the salaries and pensions of old, bored, incompetent and uninterested teachers. Fortunately, we have a simple solution to the problem, and it is called “voucher competition.” Let the money follow the students to the schools of their and their parents’ choice.

8. This country was built by immigrants and their descendants. But those immigrants came because they value the idea of America. Immigration reform is clearly overdue for the realities of the 21st century. Today, the Western world is under attack by foreigners who have come to exploit the weaknesses of our decadent, politically correct culture. The irony is that many of these immigrants are trying to reshape our countries in the image of the places they themselves fled. Human capital is our most important resource, and we must attract more honest, talented, peaceful, and hardworking foreigners, but our approach must be sensible. It is time to realize that immigration without assimilation is foreign occupation.

9. The stupidest way to improve our roads, bridges, and airports is to let government agencies solve infrastructure problems according to a centrally planned plan. That would be another massive theft and waste of our tax dollars. As a businessman, Trump knows better than anyone that projects should be funded only when the expected financial benefits exceed the costs. He also knows that, given the opportunity for profit, the private sector will do the job far more efficiently than any government agency. What we need is a privatization of our infrastructure on a scale comparable to Thatcher’s denationalization and Reagan’s deregulation of the 1980s.

10. Any law longer than the U.S. Constitution is bound to fail. The 2010 health care law (known as Obamacare) forces people to buy services from private companies—a blatant theft of basic freedoms. Government is a tool that can only be used to protect the inalienable rights of individuals—to stop foreign invasions, terrorist acts, and any other acts of aggression against citizens. It is unnatural, immoral, and illegitimate for this tool to be used as a means of coercion to make people act in ways deemed desirable by bureaucrats or politicians. One of the priorities of legislative reform should be to end these distortions and remove all barriers in the health care market.

11. It is typical for many politicians to boast about their support for free trade and private enterprise until it becomes profitable for their careers to impose protectionist measures. Tariffs and quotas have an immediate and clearly visible positive effect on certain domestic producers. Such restrictions “preserve” easily identifiable jobs, and this makes them good from a political point of view. Unfortunately, this also makes them bad from an economic point of view, because protectionism inflicts enormous harm on American consumers and workers in unprotected sectors of the national economy. For example: when steel producers want to limit the import of cheap steel, they must realize that their benefits come at the expense of increasing the costs of automobile manufacturers. Artificially preserving jobs in one sector steals jobs from another.

12. The left-wing media calls Trump “the enemy of democracy.” We hope he is indeed one, that he is prepared to play such a role with pride and courage. America is not a democracy. We are a constitutional republic. Fortunately, minorities here are not at the mercy of majorities as is the case in typical democracies. We use democratic procedures to elect public officials, but we are not governed by the people—America is governed by the Law. We may delegate certain responsibilities (expressly stated in the Constitution and nothing more) to our governments, but We the People are the true sovereign. This truth has been somewhat forgotten over the past century, and Trump’s primary mission should be to halt America’s decline into oppression and restore our great Republic.

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