i have been thinking outside of the 'box'--
what i feel 'should' have happened, etc.
each and every voter chose to exercise the option of 'not voting'.
surely there are protocols in place for such a circumstance, if not--then we should address that.
when neither major party or anyone else has proven to be worthy of confidence--the only truly moral decision in the best interest of the nation is to 'go back to drawing board'. jmo.
your thoughts?
shrug---perfectionism---better to have it--tried life both ways. worse when i lowered my standards even a millimeter.
that is why i 'feel' the way i do. what i absolutely 'think'--at this moment i cannot say. fyi.
To check the abuse of the system, such as forcing all taxpayers to fund the programs pushed by one party to get votes, I hope to see people and states demand the right to direct their taxes or ACA penalties to their local programs per state or per party.
So that way, people who support a certain party pay for their own programs, and cannot manipulate elections or votes based on this assumption that all people are going to pay for it. If it's a biased or questionable program, not proven yet, then only supporters are expected to fund it; and everyone else can wait until it's proven to work, so elections do not depend on "guessing" if it works or fails.
Think of it this way:
If political parties were treated as religious affiliations,
we would never expect people to pay for religious programs or policies under a different
church; but would give each group equal freedom to fund their own policies under their own leaders and administration.
I envision capping the federal income taxes paid as before at 10%, and then give
people/states the option of counting anything above that as a LOAN. Where people can direct that portion of their taxes through the Party of their chioce, and fund whatever reforms or programs they believe in.
I would REWARD citizens for taking back responsibility for local programs and removing this burden from the federal govt.
So REWARD people for "trickling down" their extra loans to govt by investing in localized solutions, instead of complaining
"trickle down" doesn't work and abusing that fear to push voters to depend on govt to regulate resources for us.
I would also delegate certain issues or functions to the respective parties, such as allocating the military budget and Vet services to the GOP to refinance and collecting any misspent taxes on improper war contracts to pay back the taxpayers and invest in revamping the VA and vet housing/health care. And give the Democrats the duty of resolving this whole issue of funding the health care/social services VOLUNTARILY by party members who AGREE to subsidize that, and not impose on people who don't. And give the Greens responsibility for the environmental restoration and corrections, including restitution for corporate destruction or pollution at taxpayers' expense, and converting sweatshops into schools/coops for fair trade. If each party focused on the issues they have researched and developed solutions in, then we wouldn't waste time or resources fighting for one group to govern all the areas.
We could vote with our money which party and which issues we want to finance while the party leaders and members organize reforms and how to correct the causes of waste and abuse, including plans to pay back the debts that the govt ran up and charged to the public.
I believe this can be done by Party. And if there is an imbalane of too much or too little resources in certain areas, the Parties can lend money to each other to fix the problems until the budget shrinks down to what we can sustain, moving most of the responsibility to local states and reducing the federal govt to just the minimal it is supposed to be in charge of, mainly national security and international relations, but not all this social programming that is best handled per state so the people have more direct representation and control of funds.
