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What is wrong with getting rid of the Departments of Education and Transportation?

the idea to get rid of these departments was posed to me by a republican friend of mine. but i would like to hear a democrat's response to it. it would trim trillions off of the federal budget. not only that, but education and transportation are not a responsibility of the federal government according to our constitution. it would be better left to the states. anyone disagree? if so PLEASE explain why.

Public Comments

1. Let them take the IRS with them.
2. Nothing. They are unconstitutional infringement on states. The government impliedly has no authority to TAX in areas it has no authority to act, so the tax base should remain at the personal and state level and if areas want programs they can provide them. Or NOT. And in any event they would be shaped locally, which is where the actual individuals live. Toast, you must be very young. Public education DID exist, and was MUCH better before the Department of Education was created in the 1970s.
3. Because then everyone would be dumb and uneducated AND stuck in traffic.
4. Watch the movie Idiocracy and then think about that question. The answer should and will come to you very quickly.
5. Nothing would be wrong with doing that because they are both useless. Peace
6. Nothing is wrong with getting rid of the Department of Education. It infringes on the states anyway and results have steadily fallen since it was created. I think the Department of Transportation still needs to be there but it could probably be reduced in size..
7. If you shift the responsibility for transportation/eduction from the federal government to the local government, do you really think you'll save money or just shift where you pay your taxes? Instead of 1 agency controlling air traffic we'll have 51? This is how you're going to save tax money?
8. I'm not entirely opposed, but I worry what would happen to our level of education and the quality of our highways. There would be down-time between when the federal government stopped handling these and the states started. And there's no guarantee the states could do it better. If this idea got some legs under it I'd be interested to see how the already cash-strapped states would propose to pay for this.
9. lol you should have made the stipulation that the ppl answering actually know what those departments do. Some of these answers are pretty funny.
10. Absolutely nothing. Reagan was hell-bent o do it, but too many lib-dem jobs & votes.