A flat tax with a cap on total expenditures. Without the cap they still spend at will and borrow what is not funded.

Exactly! Great solution.

Get rid of the 'ship of state' and replace it with a dinghy.

Defund all American Universities of tax-payer monies for any and all purposes including research grants and student loans.

I was not clear, and your comment is clear. You're right. You must be a producer to have a vote.

Will any taxes do? (Sales, fuel, property, import, etc.) I presume you mean net taxes paid exceeds benefits received. Do people receiving social security lose their voting rights?
I agree that contributors and producers should not be milked by looters who just vote their own benefits.

;^)

Enough of this sitting on the fence, say what you really think.

Make it a requirement that you pay taxes and must prove it in order to have a vote.

Institute a flat tax. A lot of the power and money in Washington is there to influence the tax code. Take that away and a lot of lobbyists are out of work. If the Government needs (wants) more money I would make it so they needed a two thirds majority in both the House and the Senate to increase the flat percentage.

Execute every politician and bureaucrat and consultant acting upon government contract that in any way violates the original limited construction of the constitution. I don't care who gave the order, if you follow it against the 'law of the land', you die, and so does the chain of command above up to the origination of the order.
You are responsible for your actions that undermine or limit the liberty of the sovereign people.
Enough of this dancing to the tune of looters. They fulfill the contract made with the people or they die.

I would start be putting a layer of separation between the citizen and the Federal government with respect to taxes. The States themselves would pay a per capita to the national government...states are in a far better bargaining position than Joe Citizen. The states in turn could devise their own system for taxing their citizens. This would put the states in competition for citizens and businesses...the more efficient the system the lower the taxes. If Los Angeles wants a subway system, California could pay for it...or not. We wouldn't have the overreaching Federal government taxing coal miners in West Virgina to pay for it. This is simply one example...I'm sure we all know an entire litnany of fiscal abuses like this.