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Will, I love this topic.
In my opinion, peace needs to be profitable and I think it can be if we frame "taxation" as "investment" in our future. Eisenhower's warning of the military/industrial complex went unheeded and has left us with a war based economy supported by our political structure of *owned* representatives.
The extraordinary excess that we spend on the military could be redirected into infrastructure, education, research, health care...so many things. We could become a self-supported country once again with a vision of domestic growth v. foreign domination and conflict. Tactical use of our military against extremists is a proven failure and we should address that threat from a criminal perspective.
The first step in accomplishing any of this is public financed elections. Once the near constant need to raise money for the next election is eliminated, we might finally have public servants that actually have the best interests of the country in mind.
Pollyanna Pen
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"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." Molly Ivins - 1944-2007
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