Votto
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Marxism, Schmarxism! Can the labels and give me your IDEAS.
My quesiton was, what is your idea?
My ideas are for limited government and would be scoffed at as extremist. I'm simply trying to see what the sane "moderates" wish to do.
Is this thing on? Mike! Check!
Fair and simple taxes, like a flat percentage tax on personal incomes over a threshold that's the same for everyone regardless of earnings, with no deductions.
Public budgets that are balanced by law. PAYGO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Transparency in all things politics.
http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/265635-a-l-e-c-the-american-legislative-exchange-council.html ALEC - an example of industrialized corruption.
Spending cuts: Should we continue to spend 30% more than the next 9 nations combined in the world-wide military budget race?
http://www.usmessageboard.com/clean...-the-president-compromise-on.html#post6422586
Your turn... define 'limited government'.
So you abhor the progressive income tax? You will have a fight on your hands with the progressive ideology. After all, no one wants their taxes raised, they simply want the taxes raised on the "rich". It's the other guy who lives better than they do that needs to be punished. It is a bullet proof sell to the public based on the natural tendency to covet.
As for transparency, what model do you hold up as an example, or are there any? In short, is this just ivory tower stuff?
As I have said, the unclaimed debt of both social security and Medicare total more than $7 trillion last year. How does one then talk only about cuts in the military to achieve a balanced budget?
Personally, I would like to see the US decrease it's military force. That way the UN won't expcet the US to go into places like Libya to clean house for them and Europe may actually have to start paying some money for their own defense.