ADVICE TO TRUMP: TRUMP: GET TOUGH ON DEBT!

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TRUMP: GET TOUGH ON DEBT!

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Last month I served up a bit of advice to Donald Trump that still has the potential to lock up the Republican nomination for him.

So far, he’s not listening.

In “What Trump should do next,” I explained how he could broaden his appeal beyond the immigration issue by becoming the champion of an issue that, surprisingly, has appeal with both the Republican grass-roots voters and most Democrats, according to every poll ever done on the subject.

I’m talking about the national debt – and how taking it on could singlehandedly transform the business-as-usual approach to governance in America.

It’s like a magic bullet for returning to constitutional government virtually overnight.

How does it work?

To raise the debt limit, which will soon be the talk of Washington again, you need to get agreement from both houses of Congress and the president. So far, even with control of both houses of Congress, Republicans have habitually and without resistance caved in to demands by Barack Obama to continue the nation’s unsustainable borrowing-and-spending policies.

It’s even worse than that. Republicans, so fearful of being accused of defaulting and shutting down the government, have often surrendered without firing a shot. That makes Republicans in the House and senate every bit as culpable for this totally irresponsible policy that simply passes on the bills for today’s spending to future generations – to the tune, right now, of more than $18 trillion in debt and a price tag per family of more than $100,000.

What Trump should pledge is that when he becomes president he will freeze the debt limit. He can do that as president. No more borrowing. Washington will have to live within its means just like every unsubsidized business does and just like every unsubsidized family does.

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To keep the Wall Street crowd happy, he should also explain that he will not permit a default on the debt because his first priority of his budget will be servicing existing debt until it can be retired by growth in the economy.

So far Trump has been a little timid, quite frankly, when asked about the debt.

Shortly after I raise the issue, Trump was asked whether he thought it was “worth the fight” for congressional Republicans to threaten not to raise the debt limit as a way to pressure Obama to make spending cuts.

He responded: “I would say that it’s worth the fight. Honestly, there is so much fat in Washington that if you had the right people in there you could cut it.”

But Trump needs to be much bolder than that.

Congress shouldn’t “threaten” not to raise the debt limit. It should simply announce it is not going to do it. Congress has total authority in this matter. The cuts must be forced. Obama will never agree to capitulate to a threat.

Likewise, Trump needs to say that as president, he will neither ask for a hike in the debt limit nor approve one.

It’s just that simple.

Overnight, he will become a hero to another 20 to 30 percent of Americans who understand this is the beginning of a new dawn in Washington. This is the only way America can ever return the federal government to constitutionally limited government.

When you find yourself in an $18-plus trillion hole, the first thing you do is stop digging. That’s all a debt freeze does.

The cuts then must be made. There is no other way.

Sure, Obama will blame Congress today for shutting down the government. And today’s Congress will always back off. We’ve seen that charade too many times before.

But a new president has total, 100 percent authority to freeze the debt. And he or she can use that authority and the bully pulpit of the presidency to make the cuts necessary to make it work.

It’s wouldn’t be painful, as so many politicians suggest. It would be liberating. Government solves no problems with its overspending. It simply creates more.

I think Trump has the guts to make this pledge.

But, if he doesn’t, some other Republican presidential candidate who wants to rise from the pack should consider it.

Are you listening, Ben Carson?

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My comments: America's Debt is Immoral; it Steals the Future of the next generation. Under Obama and the Democrats there is No End in sight. Ultimately it will Sink America's Fiscal Boat.