Tuesday 8 January 2019
priority objectives for America
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ask a deep question, so I may need to reserve the right to change my mind after
I have thought about it a bit, but here are my 5 from the top of my head:
1. Conservation: Bring back pollution controls
for air and water, protect national parks, subsidize renewable energy until we
lead the market, institute a carbon tax, get serious about climate change planning,
do not allow private enterprise to use state lands without a reasonable fee.
2 2 Balanced
Budget: No deficits unless there is a recession. Require corporate taxpayers to
pay an alternative minimum tax if their bracket falls below 25% of profits. Repeal all corporate welfare, especially oil, gas, agribusiness and airlines, but all others as well.
3 Stop
Tyranny: Reverse Citizen United, stop dark money and PACs. Require all political ads
that are paid for in full or in part, by money from outside the election
district to say “This ad was paid for by money from outside our election
district.” All redistricting to be settled by an independent commission. Allow open primaries.
4 Free
trade: Strive for no tariffs, as in the TPP
5 Reduce
Inequality: Repeal the step-up-in-basis
rule, tax all estates over 5 million, raise taxes for the rich, with all tax
increases on a percentage basis, and all tax refunds on a fixed dollar amount
for each tax payer
The other
two are probably simply impossible, but a guy can dream:
6 An
American culture that is not hyphenated (no Irish-American, Afro-America, Italian-American, Muslim-American,
German-American, Hispanic-American, Greek-American, Jewish-American, Swedish-American,
Sikh-American, yada yada yada)
7 Stop
the US President from sucking up to dictators, whether Bush, Obama or Trump
Yeah. This diversity idea was a really bad one. We don't want diversity, we just want to split up.
We need to divide America by race, gender religion and and whatever other things we can find to divide us.
That should work for a really good country
Manafort suspected of sharing polling data with associate linked to Russian intelligence
Manafort suspected of sharing polling data with associate linked to Russian intelligence
Sounds like collusion to me.
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