Honest books.
Honest money.
Honest government.

The argument

The federal government is the largest financial entity on earth — over $7.3 trillion in annual net costs — and its own auditor, the GAO, has issued the worst possible verdict (a disclaimer of opinion) for 28 straight years. The GAO can't cure it, because it isn't independent: it's a legislative-branch agency funded, staffed, and overseen by the very government it audits. No corporation, nonprofit, or city gets to audit itself. Neither should Washington.

The plan

• Require an annual independent external audit by international accounting firms — a three-firm group audit (one lead + two component firms).
• Mandate five-year rotation of the lead firm to prevent auditor capture.
• Require the President to personally certify the financial statements each year — the Sarbanes-Oxley standard every Fortune 500 CEO already meets.
• Recognize real obligations like Social Security and Medicare on the balance sheet.

The argument

Prices don't rise on their own — the dollar falls. When money is created faster than real goods, each dollar buys less, and the loss isn't random: new money reaches the banks, the big contractors, and the financial markets first, and the wage-earner, the saver, and the retiree on a fixed income last. The first in line buy at yesterday's prices; the last pay tomorrow's with today's paycheck. It is the most regressive tax there is — levied silently, authorized by no vote, falling hardest on the people least able to defend themselves.

The plan

• Repeal the legal-tender coercion (31 U.S.C. § 5103) and end the capital-gains penalty on gold and silver, so honest money can compete on a level field.
• Restore honest banking — true-safekeeping law for demand deposits and the right of full-reserve banks to exist and compete.
• Open the Federal Reserve's books to an independent external audit, and return the power to create money to Congress, where Article I placed it.
• Re-anchor the currency to a commodity standard over time, so the money supply answers to reality rather than to those who manage it.

The argument

The National Guard is a federal reserve of the U.S. Army and Air Force — callable into full national service and deployable overseas without a state's consent (Perpich v. Department of Defense). The constitutional militia is its opposite: under Article I the states officer and train it, and the federal government may call it forth only to execute the laws, suppress insurrections, or repel invasions. It is the body of the people, structurally designed as a check on the standing army — not a part of it. Today both halves of that design are being violated at once: a federalized force is marched against citizens in their own streets, while states disarm the very people a militia presupposes.

The plan

• Recognize the militia of the several states as an institution distinct from the National Guard — one the states may organize, train, and officer under their own authority.
• Restore the constitutional partition: bar federalized National Guard units from domestic law-enforcement roles except under the narrow terms of the Insurrection Act.
• Protect the armed body of the people from both federal overreach and state-level disarmament — the right to keep and bear arms and the duty of common defense are two faces of one design.