I would create a department of efficiency, to make sure that every last tax dollar went to good use. The government needs to be efficient, and if it was, it should reduce taxes while benefeits the same, if not better.

I also have had an idea floating around in my mind recently that goes a little something like this: We split the government up into parts, and make them compete. We'll take education as an example. Education would be split up into parts, and they would compete against each other for tax money. This should have the effect of privitazation, except we still get them as free public services. I haven't thought this through 100% in my head yet, so I don't know exactly how it would work, but I am confident that it CAN work.

Also, I might start a 'manhatton project' of sorts, except instead of building bombs, we research an alternative fuel/and or energy source. If the government put as much effort into alternative energy as they did the atomic bomb, we would have it by now. Not only would it reduce our dependancy on foreign oil, it would REMOVE our dependancy on foreign oil. If this were to happen, we wouldn't have to worry about the middle east. Let the rest of the world have the oil rich region. It shouldn't matter to us if we don't need it.

Sorry, I know that my writing is less than coherant at the moment. I just hope it's understandable.