Why are you running, for what purpose?
What do you hope to accomplish?
To Keep America. Period. That is it. To Keep America. At the forefront, income inequality. The foundation, Georgism.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. Henry George, 1879
If we don't immediately address the expanding gap between the rich and the poor there won't be an America around long enough to worry about any damn global warming cliff in 2050. And while I doubt we can adopt a single "land tax", as Georgism implies, we can certainly revamp the tax code, at both the federal and state level.
Step one, tax all income the same, across both individual and corporate entities. No more special, cheap tax rates, for capital gains. No more special tax breaks for energy companies, fossil fuel or renewable. Everyone, and every company, competes on a level playing field.
We have fifty states in this union, and every damn one of them has a regressive tax system. That has to come to an end. While eliminating the sales tax would be optimum, at least eliminating special taxes, on cigarettes, alcohol, and all the other "sin" taxes.
Rent seeking has got to stop. And I will make it my mission to educate the voters of the tenth district as to what rent seeking really is. Believe me, these people really are the salt of the earth. The median age is right at 43. Median income a little shy of $36,000 a year. Median household income is a little shy of $65,000 a year. Hell, what does that tell you? You got a bunch of middle-aged couples slugging it out in low-wage jobs. Tell me, who represents THEM? It sure as hell ain't Republicans, worried about transgender athletes and preventing a woman with a non-viable pregnancy from getting an abortion even though carrying the baby to term endangered her life. I mean these are some sick mofos.
I bring one thing to the table. LIFE. That chromosomal abnormality that Kate Cox has in Texas. well my daughter-in-law and Son had a pregnancy with the very same chromosomal abnormality. The pregnancy was absolutely killing my daughter-in-law, and there was no chance the baby would survive the first year, probably not the first few hours.
Fentanyl overdose. Yeah, been there, done that, lost a son-in-law. Federal prisons, yep, got that covered too, a daughter, see the above about Fentanyl. Food stamps, living in poverty, yep, been there, done that. Mental depression and suicide, yeah, another son-in-law. I mean damn, I have three daughters, the oldest 37, and two of them are widows. WTF? Single parent, raising three kids, yep, been there, done that. Honestly, with six kids, there isn't much I haven't experienced. One thing is for damn sure, I ain't never lived in a silver tower. And that is the thing, neither have the people of the tenth district.
And that is just it. I have managed to make it work. Like I said, I have six kids, one with MS and on disability. She has a child with autism, he is absolutely amazing. But pretty sure the other five all make more money than me, ain't that the way it is supposed to be, ain't that the way it used to be? Maybe I should steal Trump's slogan, "Make America Great Again", because when the next generation is better off than the previous generation, well that has always been the American way. Except today, it usually doesn't turn out that way. Time we took the steps necessary to make that happen again. After all, you either change and adapt, or you die.
