Your arguments would carry weight if they were flushed out, both for and against.
Don't shit yourself because I actually addressed something of yours seriously. What precisely do you mean 'FLESHED OUT... for and against?" I'm not for the status quo. Why should I bother producing ideas to maintain it?
The paying for voting thing is interesting. I suspect like all dogooder ideas the law of unintended consequences would make that one a huge joke in record time. .
That's why this is not a 'payment'. It's a refund. If you don't pay taxes, you have no skin in the game and really, I couldn't care less if you vote or not, so you get the least amount of discount off your income taxes. On the other hand, if you pay a lot in taxes, you are obviously making something work in the economy (unless you're a government employee) and therefore deserve a greater break.
Remember this economic fact: Subsidize what you want more of, tax what you want less of. I want more voting, so I subsidize it through a credit, not a payment. They only get to keep more of what they earned.
Big difference. Australia takes another tactic. They fine you for not voting. I feel it's the right of people to be apathetic.
Public sector unions? What percentage of the populace is the public sector union vote?
SEIU ring any bells? They are a significant political force that needs it's neck broken. And that's just one. The NEA, is another large corrupt union throwing millions of dollars into elections and funding 'get out the vote drives', and abusing their positions of authority to brainwash their charges in the schools through their members.
"Prevent lobbyists from exercising their rights under the Constitution or what? You asking for regulation or laws..bigger government?
Give it a rest. You're condoning bribery now? Even you, Dante, are smarter than that... aren't you?
Decentralizing government? Sorry, the Articles of Confederation were a disaster and decentralizing government is so broad a term as to be meaningless in any context.
I did not SAY revert to a confederacy. I am saying decentralize. Move the politicians home and communicate with their committees and debates via electronic methods. That forces lobbying firms and other political miscreants to scatter to all 50 states and breaks up the "Georgetown Cocktail Party Set" as a shitty little Versailles court of the unworthy. The added benefit is that they spend more time directly in front of their constituents feeling the heat for their bad choices. Save them going to Washington except for things too big to do electronically.
Bribery and voter fraud are already illegal. They are not capital offenses and should not be. Why? Sanity.
When's the last time you heard of a sitting congresscritter go to prison for it? How about never?
So, if I'm a megacorp and bribe officials to look the other way while making another Love Canal in your neighborhood that gives your children and 750 others all leukemia causing them to die in 5 years, they shouldn't be held for directly accountable for mass murder? I think they should be. Then again, the death penalty should be quickly implemented the old fashioned way, firing squad or hanging when convicted of a capital crime (shut the fuck up Bfgrn if you show).
I want politicians scared to death that committing a crime of this type and will be very leery of taking 'gifts' for political influence. Very afraid. Keeps them honest if they can die for it when they have a gun to their head.
Term limits have fucked up places like California.
Proof? The only thing I've seen fucked up are the citizens in every metropolitan area. I can't speak for small town California. What's really fucked them up though now that I think about it has been bailouts from the fed and state bailouts to the municipalities. They need to suffer the consequences of their fucking stupid choices and turn into sewers so people throw the idiots out and never make that mistake again.
but thanks for trying. next time get more specific.
How often do you post stoned? All the time or only 99%?
