I hope I count as an intelligent liberal thinker, who DOES get that we need to respect capitalist free enterprise and Constitutional liberties/free will while reforming the system.
you seem dunderheaded for sure. If you are an intelligent liberal (impossible of course) as you say then please present to us your single best liberal idea or admit as a liberal you lack the IQ to do so. Thanks
I think my favorite idea is to start paying back taxpayers by charging the wrongdoers for the debts and damages incurred by govt or corporate abuses of public resources and authority.
Because there is a time gap between settling the costs and responsibility, and actually collecting money and paying back taxpayers, that is where I recommend expanding the idea of independent currency, developed by the Green Party (in particular, Paul Glover founder of Ithaca HOURS
Home Ithaca Hours - Local Currency - Ithaca, New York),
and issuing NOTES against the debts and damages PER case, and lending or borrowing capital from investors to BACK those notes until the wrongdoers pay back the account.
In the meantime, in order to secure these debts, the programs or properties that the restitution is sought to invest in restoring would be held as collateral for the loans.
So the investors who lend to govt, to pay for the corrections and developing sustainable education or service programs as the solution to the damages from past govt abuses,
would agree either to earn interest while the wrongdoers are paying back their debts,
or agree to accept ownership of shares in the collateral property/program if this isn't paid.
So instead of just Fed investors making money off lending to govt, any citizens or investors
could do so, and organize this per party, per issue or case of govt corrpuption or corporate abuses that need to be paid back to the taxpayers instead of charging us for those losses!
What do you think of this idea, Ed?
Did I go over your head?
I find some Greens, some Constitutionalists from either the far left or right can deal with this.
Some Tea Party, some Occupy people and Libertarians who "think outside the box" can
deal with this.
If you cannot, I expect you will continue to emotionally project onto me as
if it is MY fault that YOU cannot understand an insightful intelligent idea when you see it.
Not to worry, my own boyfriend does not see this either.
It is just too scary to him, so his biases get in the way and he can't see past those.
Not an issue of intelligence, but forgiveness.
If you cannot forgive liberals or whoever it is you have such an unhappy grudge against,
this will prevent you from appreciating good ideas that may come from liberal sources,
in this case, a combination of Green ideas mixed with restitution to taxpayers which is
a variation on reparations but applied to taxpayers who have suffered wrongs by govt etc.