What specific political goals/policies do you support or object to?

[lg325]

1.If a person isn't hurting anyone or anyone's property government should leave them alone.
2. Stay involved, keep and promote democratic alliances.
3. ''Do not negotiate out of fear but never fear to negotiate.'' with friends or foes.
4.All policy should be rooted in how will it benefit the average American citizen.
5. Balanced Budget
6. Line item veto by the president.
7. Each bill must contain only one subject. No riders.
8. Term limits for all elected official's. And all government employees.
9. Before getting employed for any government job the person must have worked in the private sector for at least 10 years.
10. Elected and non elected government employees cannot do insider trading while employed or lobby the government for 5 years after leaving employment. Or be employed by any private business that contracts with goverment for 5 years after leaving government.

 

[Foxfyre]

I do to but what do we do when the state destroys the people like California does. Should the Federal government stop the policies of California that hurt the entire Untidef States

At face value I say no. The Founders intended each state to be its own little policy laboratory trying and testing various policies to see what works and what doesn't. Successes can be copied and implemented by other states. Failures don't mess up anybody other than that one state.

That is why the 10th Amendment is so important and why the federal government should be doing nothing that cannot be done just as efficiently and effectively in the various states and/or by the private sector. When the federal government succeeds everybody benefits but when it fails, everybody suffers. Better to leave the suffering confined to California who hopefully will wise up one of these days and oust the 'woke' dictators and re-establish itself as the golden state and envy of the nation.

 

[daveman]

I support legal immigration. People who came here to work, either just to work and go back home or to stay and become American citizens. I have a lot of respect for them.

But people who crossed the border illegally are a slap in the face to those who followed the rules. I have no respect for illegals. Every one caught needs to be deported and blacklisted. No coming to America ever again. They're criminals and can't be trusted.

 

[JGalt]

Mostly a list of culture crap. Very little of actual substance on the list. Nothing about wars, nothing about the budget.

It goes without saying those two things will be dealt with.

 

[Foxfyre]

My main beef is tariffs, I believe they are a terrible idea and should not be employed unless and until all other options have been exhausted. IMHO, any gain from tariffs is offset by the losses incurred when the affected foreign companies and countries reciprocate with their own tariffs and other protectionist policies against us.

They were very effective in the previous Trump administration. He does not initiate tariffs as a money raising method but rather to prevent or encourage other countries from doing deliberate harm to the USA. For example, threatening Mexico with stiff tariffs on Mexican built automobiles got Mexico to put 27,000 or so of their military on their southern border to prevent the caravans from coming north. That saved the USA billions and billions of dollars--that's how Trump got them to pay for the wall among other things by the way--and was a very good thing for Americans. Mexico was willing to do that rather than lose the U.S. market for their cars.

 

[pknopp]

It goes without saying those two things will be dealt with.

Not in a way I would agree with.

 

[JGalt]

Not in a way I would agree with.

You rarely agree with anything or anyone, anyways.

 

[pknopp]

You rarely agree with anything or anyone.

What part of our debt do you agree with?

 

[JGalt]

The second day of the week is Monday.

You almost had me going there, ya lovable knucklehead.

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[JGalt]

What part of our debt do you agree with?

For the first thing, I disagree that it's "our debt." I'll never pay that shit off, so you are welcome to my share, bro.

 

[pknopp]

For the first thing, I disagree that it's "our debt." I'll never pay that shit off, so you are welcome to my share, bro.

So you are willing to be a dead beat. I disagree what is who we should be.

 

[JGalt]

So you are willing to be a dead beat. I disagree what is who we should be.

There you go with that "we" thing again. You must have a mouse in your pocket or something.

Personally, I look at it as being my patriotic duty to pay as little money to the federal government as I can get away with.

Taxation is theft, yo.

 

[pknopp]

There you go with that "we" thing again. You must have a mouse in your pocket or something.

So you are willing to be a dead beat. I disagree with that.

Personally, I look at it as being my patriotic duty to pay as little money to the federal government as I can get away with.

Taxation is theft, yo.

Even though you benefit personally from much of that. Dead beat.

 

[petro]

Mostly a list of culture crap. Very little of actual substance on the list. Nothing about wars, nothing about the budget.

6. Government should be accountable for every dollar spent.

There was also an etc. included so folks could comment on anything.

 

[pknopp]

6. Government should be accountable for every dollar spent.

There was also an etc. included so folks could comment on anything.

You can account for every dollar spent that is debt.

 

[JGalt]

So you are willing to be a dead beat. I disagree with that.




Even though you benefit personally from much of that. Dead beat.

Ok, tax slave. You love a subjugated society in which you're forced to enrich your beloved government and the recipients of largesse, rather than working for your own benefit. The famous author Leo Tolstoy argued that taxation of labor is one of three stages of slavery, the other two being land slavery and personal slavery.

I, unlike yourself, am a free man.

Now disagree with me, as you always do, you contrarian.

 

[pknopp]

Ok, tax slave. You love a subjugated society in which you're forced to enrich your beloved government and the recipients of largesse, rather than working for your own benefit.

I've never argued that but you just have to lash out.

The famous author Leo Tolstoy argued that taxation of labor is one of three stages of slavery, the other two being land slavery and personal slavery.

I, unlike yourself, am a free man.

A free man still pays for what he uses.

 

[elektra]

At face value I say no. The Founders intended each state to be its own little policy laboratory ... Failures don't mess up anybody other than that one state.

You pay more for food and energy because of California's policies.

 

[task0778]

They were very effective in the previous Trump administration. He does not initiate tariffs as a money raising method but rather to prevent or encourage other countries from doing deliberate harm to the USA. For example, threatening Mexico with stiff tariffs on Mexican built automobiles got Mexico to put 27,000 or so of their military on their southern border to prevent the caravans from coming north. That saved the USA billions and billions of dollars--that's how Trump got them to pay for the wall among other things by the way--and was a very good thing for Americans. Mexico was willing to do that rather than lose the U.S. market for their cars.

But what if a tariff is actually implemented? It sounds really good until you kinda drill down into the weeds. I believe the tariffs are essentially paid for by US consumers that have to pay a high price for the same thing and that is called inflation. Say my company/corporation makes a product at a $15 price but the same foreign product only costs $10. So Trump lays a tariff on the foreign product that now costs the same $15 or thereabouts. So, now my company gets more sales revenue, maybe. But where did that extra revenue come from? US consumers, who are now paying more for the same damn thing. A tariff takes away the choice for a consumer to spend $10 on the foreign product, now he/she has to spend an extra $5 for the same thing regardless of who made it. I kinda don't like that.

What I'm seeing in that scenario is a consumer that now has $5 less to spend on something else and that is not conducive to economic growth. So I'm not seeing a plus here for anybody except the US business that competes with the foreign business that got tariffed and the politicians that supported the tariff. Used to be the democrats loved tariffs to prop up the unions that supported them, what does that tell you? NOW - the other shoe that drops is the retaliation, right? The foreign gov't puts a tariff or some other protectionist policy on US exports to them, so there's a loss for us, right? So, the affected US businesses are hurt, and what can they do about it? Layoffs? Higher domestic sales prices? How is that good?

Threats to slap a tariff is basically extortion at a high level. Is that the best option? Can we not find other ways to level the playing field that does not expose US consumers to higher prices? History tells us that raising tariffs and other protectionist policies do not end well for anybody.

 

[Foxfyre]

You pay more for food and energy because of California's policies.

Nevertheless California should have the right to be a wonderful state or a totally screwed up one. One price of liberty is the consequences of being wrong.