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Term Limits for all Federal elected officials. 6 years maximum in the House of Representatives, 12 years maximum in the Senate, and a total of 19 years total federal elected service. Then I would link the retirement benefits of federal officials to exactly match those given to Rear Admirals (Lower Half) in the Navy, and Brigadier Generals in the rest of the military.I would add a clause that stated that no person could be elected to Federal Office if they have held a DIFFERENT Federal Office in the previous two years. If you are a Senator, and you want to be President, that is fine, but you cannot run for the Presidency WHILE you are a member of the Senate. You have to leave the Senate two years prior to being elected President. This would also apply to cabinet officers and member of the judiciary.Any Member of Congress who misses a vote in a committee will be fined 2% of his salary. Any member of Congress who misses a floor vote will forfeit 10% of his salary. When voting, there should only be two choices, YES and NO. Voting “present” is an act of cowardice, and it is a dereliction of duty. Half of the job of a member of Congress is to vote on things, but the majority of members of Congress miss more meetings and votes than they make.No person would be eligible to hold any Federal elected office if they did not have a DD-214 with a re-enlistment code of 1A. No man (or woman) should ever have the power to send another man’s son (or daughter) out to die for his country if they haven’t voluntarily put themselves in that position. Lead by example.Persons running for Federal elected office could ONLY accept campaign contributions from registered voters in the districts that they are running in. If you live in CA or NY, then it is none of your business who the Senator from TN is. If you live in Nashville, it is none of your business who the Representative from Chattanooga is.A Balanced Budget, unless there was a national emergency declared by 2/3 of the House and Senate, and 51% of the state legislatures.I would return the election of Senators back to the state legislatures. The 17th amendment was a mistake. It consolidates too much power in DC. It was an important check and balance on the Federal Government, and now it is gone.I would repeal the income tax, and mandate that the only federal tax would be a sales tax. The sales tax would not apply to store bought food (except restaurant food, which would be taxed), housing, and medical and legal expenses. Most people have no real idea about how much the federal government spends (and takes from their wallets) because most of it is hidden. When you buy a car, you are not just paying for the cost to manufacture the car, you are also paying the taxes on the profit that the car company will make, because Ford, or GM, or Nissan, built their taxes into your list price. If the government raises the taxes on manufacturing cars, the car company is not going to just eat that cost, they are going to raise the price that you pay. Companies NEVER pay taxes, but they do collect them for the government. They ALWAYS pass the taxes onto the consumer in the cost of the products.I would make it clear that no government, at any level, has the power to restrict the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms. period. ever. full stop.No person who illegally entered the USA would EVER be eligible for legal residency or citizenship, and if an illegal alien gave birth to a child on US soil, then that child would not be eligible for citizenship either. I am not against legal immigration. We need immigrants. But what we have now is not working, and it is inhumane. The level of illegal immigration that we have now is unsustainable, and it is unhealthy for our Republic.The official language of the US would be English.

It depends on the structure of the enhanced severance.If you remain employed for time X, with no requirement to report to work, then your salary received at home is for the convenience of your employer. If home is not the state where you worked, then those wages are earned wherever you live and taxed only in that state of residence. If you change your state of residence while still receiving that paid time, you file non-resident income tax return for the state of your former employer, as part year resident. Your income earned while working not in your employer’s state, for their benefit, is not taxable in that state. It is income earned and taxable in your state of residence. Your internal job hunt is “working”, not vacation. So is any availability by phone to answer questions, back in your former department.A lump sum payment at the end of time X would similarly be taxed as earned in your state of residence on the date the lump sum is issued.Larger companies often assist laid off employees with access to company job postings to try to change the loss of a job into an interdepartmental transfer and probably a relocation. At the same time, as continuing employees, they can think long and hard about whether the sacking was age or bias discrimination worth a lawsuit, still bound by employment agreements on not disparaging the company. The ‘enhanced severance’ at the end of the period is in exchange for some obligation, often non-disparagement, forfeit of right to sue and sometimes, non-compete agreements.Carrying the laid-off employee at regular salary buys time for rational and favorable choices by the laid off worker.Employers do not want you at a work location because they, themselves, expect anger that might transform into spite work - damaging actions by a disgruntled ex-worker as a form of revenge.John works at XYZ Corp. in Manhattan, New York, commuting from his home in New Jersey.Working in IT, John is on call two weekends per month and has wound up doing work remotely on a Saturday or Sunday 14 times over the year. John also took a one week training class in New Jersey, paid by his employer.Even without a layoff, John would file a NY State Non-resident return. His salary subject to NY state tax would be the days worked In NY State divided by Total Days Worked. This might be a fraction like 195/214New Jersey taxes income about 1% less than New York. New Jersey tax would be due, under a resident return for 19/214 ths of the salary income. Only New Jersey would be able to tax for interest and dividend income.Now, structure a severance with friendly terms, that the old department can contact you at home if they have any problems while still on payroll. Your ongoing services are being paid, for the benefit of the employer who wants you to work from home.Note that “working from home” one day, because a plumber is coming to the house to fix a leaky faucet is not for the benefit of the employer. New York would consider that taxable income from employment in New York. They had the roads ready for your commute. They had fire and safety arranged. You just didn’t show up. Entirely different from attending training or a trade show or visiting an out of state office at the direction of one’s supervisors. Or trying to find a fit elsewhere in XYZ Corp and reviewing the severance agreement they want you to sign.Carrying this logic forward, the date of severance and a lump sum payment, one is working in a different state from XYZ Corp, and has been doing so for their benefit. That lump sum payment is taxable in the state of residence.

According to the California Legislative Analyst Office (‘non-partisan’, but that means they are officially not affiliated with any political party. It does not mean they are unbiased, and the LAO tends to follow the ideology of the party in power.) 58% of the current California state budget is direct federal funds (pass through funds, matching, grants, et al). The 2019 budget is $214 billion. So the feds hand the state $124 billion directly. There area also federal funds given to counties and cities, plus direct federal spending in the state by various federal agencies (military bases, public lands, the salaries paid to federal employees, etc). Those totals would be difficult to determine, but most assuredly exceed a few hundred billion.Californians pay approximately $460 billion in federal income taxes. There are also various federal excise taxes (~$4.5 billion in federal gasoline and diesel taxes alone), fees, etc.So do the total federal expenditures in the state actually exceed what Californians pay out? Difficult to determine. Although I cannot verify the claim, I cannot rule it out either. I suspect the cost/revenue balance sheet is close to breaking even.