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Ill piggyback off your list to start. I can see raising taxes across the board with broad cuts but I see it more important to revamp the tax code to start with. I believe that taxes should be a simple tired system similar to what we have now with zero deductions or credits. The only deduction I would allow would be charitable donations to a nonprofit that you have absolutely zero connection with and that should be capped at 10 percent or so of your overall tax liability. Also, income needs to be redefined in the tax code to mean exactly that income and not delineated by wages, capital gains or any other name you want to put on it. A dollar is a dollar no matter where you earn it at and there is no reason to treat Wall Streets earnings any different than Main Streets earnings. As a side note, I would like tax brackets and rates to be constitutionally locked as a matter of ratio to one another so that class warfare in the tax code would cease to exist. That way, increases and decreases in the tax code would be uniform for all and there would be no more attacking people that do not pay taxes or the rich paying to little. Anytime a tax hike would come everyone would already be of the impression that everyones taxes would be affected in the same manner.List the top five, then offer a somewhat comprehensive solution. Leave the cliches, glib comments and ad hominems out. If you have nothing to offer, don't post.
P: Spending, the deficit and the Debt
S: The House of Representatives needs to share the pain and recognize zero sum games harm everyone. The Debt is a long-term result of years of deficit spending under both Democratic and Republican Administrations.
Hiring needs to be frozen and early retirement offered if we are not to exacerbate the unemployment problem. The size of government reduced by attrition, not lay-offs. This applies to all levels of government.
Taxes need to be raised across the board on a flat percentage - for example all tax payers billed 5% on their tax liability and the revenue used only to reduce the debt (not the deficit) until we have reduced our interest payments to a manageable level.
Taxes need to be raised on all non-commercial fuel used for transportation, forcing commuters to use public transportation (a tax credit on a dollar for dollar basis for those rural zip codes where public transportation is not an option).
The deficite needs to be fixed by safe and sane practices, across the board cuts put people at risk. It makes no sense to cut the jobs of first responders, continue to ignore our aged infrastructure or allow medical costs to rise because we ignore creating an environment where early detection. Early detection of disease allows for cures or manageable treatments at a lower cost than waiting for the crisis.
NEXT: Unemployment
List the top five, then offer a somewhat comprehensive solution. Leave the cliches, glib comments and ad hominems out. If you have nothing to offer, don't post.
P: Spending, the deficit and the Debt
S: The House of Representatives needs to share the pain and recognize zero sum games harm everyone. The Debt is a long-term result of years of deficit spending under both Democratic and Republican Administrations.
Hiring needs to be frozen and early retirement offered if we are not to exacerbate the unemployment problem. The size of government reduced by attrition, not lay-offs. This applies to all levels of government.
Taxes need to be raised across the board on a flat percentage - for example all tax payers billed 5% on their tax liability and the revenue used only to reduce the debt (not the deficit) until we have reduced our interest payments to a manageable level.
Taxes need to be raised on all non-commercial fuel used for transportation, forcing commuters to use public transportation (a tax credit on a dollar for dollar basis for those rural zip codes where public transportation is not an option).
The deficite needs to be fixed by safe and sane practices, across the board cuts put people at risk. It makes no sense to cut the jobs of first responders, continue to ignore our aged infrastructure or allow medical costs to rise because we ignore creating an environment where early detection. Early detection of disease allows for cures or manageable treatments at a lower cost than waiting for the crisis.
NEXT: Unemployment
P: Unemployment
S: Job creation. Yes, the government can create jobs, both within all levels of government and the private sector too. The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) of 1973 put the unemployed to work. It benefited the private sector in two ways: providing new employees whose salary was subsidized and new customers as the former unemployed now had income to spend on goods and services.
A new iteration of CETA will also help replace government employees who leave by attrition or are offered early retirement; new employees will be hired under different conditions than those who leave: Salary schedules will be lower, retirement benefits less generous and medical costs shared more equally between the government employer and the employee.
NEXT: Energy
Communism in its ideal does not exist. In order for true communal ownership to exist in a nation of any size and economic power like our own there needs to be a government in order to distribute and manage those goods and that government ultimately ends up where the soviets ended up. Communism does not work on economies of scale and it has been shown that it does not work. If you are talking about a neighborhood it is doable though somewhat difficult. When you are talking the country then there is no getting around the fact that inefficiencies run rampant and destroy the system within. There is no way to motivate production when there is zero reward to produce and no way to stave off corruption in those that control the flow of goods. By its very nature it denies individual rights when you remove the basic right that we all have: to one’s own property.Communism denies the individual?
Clearly, you've never known any anarcho-communists
If you really believe that then you do not understand the world at all. Isolationism is not effective and we need a military presence in the world. Though it needs to be massively scaled back, it does need to be there.Close all foreign military bases and bring all troops home.
All the money for infrastructure and the money our troops spend overseas will be spent in our country. All that money would be injected into our economy instead of leaving the country.
It would be a huge "stimulus package" that would cost us no extra money.
Nobody is saying otherwise. States right exist because of the underlined portion: government is LIMITED. The courts are there to rule on the laws but that does not mean states do not have states right. It actually reinforces that right.The Government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land. There is nothing in the Constitution which excludes incidental or implied powers. If the end be legitimate, and within the scope of the Constitution, all the means which are appropriate and plainly adapted to that end, and which are not prohibited, may be employed to carry it into effect pursuant to the Necessary and Proper clause.[/I]
If a state believes a given Federal law is un-Constitutional, it may file suit in Federal court. But it does not have the ‘state right’ to ignore, nullify, or otherwise alter the Federal statue. And should the Federal law be upheld by the Supreme Court, the state is obligated to follow that law.
What problems face America today?
What problems face America today?
List the top five, then offer a somewhat comprehensive solution
My top five problems facing America but reserving the right to revise and amend:
1. Too little education in American history, the intent of the Constitution, and the concepts that went into it.
Solution: Get ideology and the federal governments out of the schools and make basic American History and Constitution required subjects for graduation.
2. Too little respect for basic traditional values that were once standard such as working for whatever is obtained; personal responsibility and accountability; paying debts owed and living within one's means.
Solution: Convince the people again that a government big enough to take care of all our basic needs is a government big enough to take anything from us it wants. Government functions should be handled at the lowest and most local level possible.
3. Too much power is in the hands of our elected leaders who have learned that they can take our money and use it to buy votes and allegiance and thereby increase their own power, prestige, influence, and personal fortunes.
Solution: Remove the ability of the federal government to dispense any form of charity or benevolence or special favors and handle all that at the state level only.
4. The nation is losing its spiritual underpinnings and moral center.
Solution: Reinstate the ability of all people in all settings to display or express their religious beliefs. It is not necessary that all the people be religious, but rather that the people relearn what religious freedom actually looks like.
5. Too few people are wlling to look at or discuss issues with an honest interest to learn, teach, or reach a solution. Too much energy is diverted in blame, accusations, finding fault, and demonizing those who have a different point of view.
Solution: Push for a return to civility, intellectual honesty, and personal integrity.
So what happened to the debt when the republican ran the presidency plus ALL of congress? What happened when the liberals ran the presidency plus ALL of congress? I dont thing being a partisan hack is going to solve much
List the top five, then offer a somewhat comprehensive solution. Leave the cliches, glib comments and ad hominems out. If you have nothing to offer, don't post.
P: Spending, the deficit and the Debt
S: The House of Representatives needs to share the pain and recognize zero sum games harm everyone. The Debt is a long-term result of years of deficit spending under both Democratic and Republican Administrations.
Hiring needs to be frozen and early retirement offered if we are not to exacerbate the unemployment problem. The size of government reduced by attrition, not lay-offs. This applies to all levels of government.
Taxes need to be raised across the board on a flat percentage - for example all tax payers billed 5% on their tax liability and the revenue used only to reduce the debt (not the deficit) until we have reduced our interest payments to a manageable level.
Taxes need to be raised on all non-commercial fuel used for transportation, forcing commuters to use public transportation (a tax credit on a dollar for dollar basis for those rural zip codes where public transportation is not an option).
The deficite needs to be fixed by safe and sane practices, across the board cuts put people at risk. It makes no sense to cut the jobs of first responders, continue to ignore our aged infrastructure or allow medical costs to rise because we ignore creating an environment where early detection. Early detection of disease allows for cures or manageable treatments at a lower cost than waiting for the crisis.
NEXT: Unemployment
Mark 1:14-16
14Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
15And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
My top five problems facing America but reserving the right to revise and amend:
1. Too little education in American history, the intent of the Constitution, and the concepts that went into it.
Solution: Get ideology and the federal governments out of the schools and make basic American History and Constitution required subjects for graduation.
2. Too little respect for basic traditional values that were once standard such as working for whatever is obtained; personal responsibility and accountability; paying debts owed and living within one's means.
Solution: Convince the people again that a government big enough to take care of all our basic needs is a government big enough to take anything from us it wants. Government functions should be handled at the lowest and most local level possible.
3. Too much power is in the hands of our elected leaders who have learned that they can take our money and use it to buy votes and allegiance and thereby increase their own power, prestige, influence, and personal fortunes.
Solution: Remove the ability of the federal government to dispense any form of charity or benevolence or special favors and handle all that at the state level only.
4. The nation is losing its spiritual underpinnings and moral center.
Solution: Reinstate the ability of all people in all settings to display or express their religious beliefs. It is not necessary that all the people be religious, but rather that the people relearn what religious freedom actually looks like.
5. Too few people are wlling to look at or discuss issues with an honest interest to learn, teach, or reach a solution. Too much energy is diverted in blame, accusations, finding fault, and demonizing those who have a different point of view.
Solution: Push for a return to civility, intellectual honesty, and personal integrity.
And how is "praying" and "studying mysticism" supposed to do a single positive thing for this country.
Of all the hairbrained, wine soaked, ridiculous things to say. Unfortunately, too many agree with you. That's probalbly the single largest reason America is in the mess it's in.
This book has two messages. First, religion reduces crime. Second, look what happens to scholars who say this is true.
The first argument rests on the work of Byron R. Johnson, a professor at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, who compiled a survey of every study between 1944 and 2010 that measured the possible effect of religion on crime. He found 273 such studies. As he reports in "More God, Less Crime," even though their authors used different methods and assessed different groups of people, 90% of these studies found that more religiosity resulted in less crime. Only 2% found that religion produced more crime. (The remaining 8% found no relationship either way.)
Does this prove that religion reduces crime? Not precisely, for these are all quasi-experimental studies. If they were truly experimental and thus carried greater intellectual weight, the researchers would direct people, none of whom had any religion, either to acquire and practice one or to remain godless and thereby stay in the control group. We would then compare the groups' crime rates. Doing this would be immoral, illegal and impractical, and so we are left with studies that compare religious and nonreligious people and try to control statistically for other factors that might explain away the religion-and-crime link.
Book review: More God, Less Crime - WSJ.com
Wow... retarded...The U.S.A. was founded on Liberalism, genius. The FF loved to spew Locke.
No it was founded on Republicanism.
Constitution of the United States of America
Article IV.
Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in ths Union a Republican Form of Government.
Not a Progressive Socialist form of Government.
Online Library of Liberty - John Locke
Liberalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
So what happened to the debt when the republican ran the presidency plus ALL of congress? What happened when the liberals ran the presidency plus ALL of congress? I dont thing being a partisan hack is going to solve much