My candidates would support:
-Preservation of the constitution, with executive orders immediately overriding laws in blatant violation, and referral of any questionable laws to the appropriate courts. The job of the government should be to protect its people, not to oppress them.
-A constitutional amendment explicitly separating church and state and preserving individual religious freedom. If prayer occurs in public schools, it should happen privately, and if accommodations need to be made to allow people to pray in private, then it is reasonable to expect those accommodations to be made. Any religious display placed on public land should be funded, maintained, and monitored by private citizens who are given equal opportunity and space to do so, and should be restricted to holiday times when such displays are expected. If a public employee wants a religious symbol in their own private office or desk space, that's fine, but the ten commandments on the courthouse steps isn't. Public funding of religious programs must end.
-A flat rate income tax at a rate (I'm thinking somewhere in the 40% range would be sustainable) will be levied on all income above $25,000 per person per household (dependents can either claim this deduction for themselves or allow a parent to claim it.) Businesses will not be treated as individuals under tax, criminal, or civil law, and therefore the only tax on these businesses will be sales tax on what is purchased. This will free small businesses from the tax burden on money reinvested into the business that can crush them, and large businesses will no longer be able to hide their assets in tax shelters. Personal expense accounts will be taxed as income with no applicable deductions, and the tax on those account will be paid by the business, not the individual.
-Property tax will be outlawed at all levels by federal law. Local governments will be retained as suppliers of last resort for utilities and services and will charge for infrastructure. When functioning as a supplier, they will bill only for service delivered and may not markup the cost of service. State income tax will pay for public schools and parents should have the option of sending their children to charter schools if public school performance is not up to state standards. Schools that consistently fail need to be examined for causes of failure and those causes addressed.
-Welfare as we know it is out. People who are unable to provide for themselves should be guaranteed a minimum standard of living, people who need education should be minimally provided for while seeking that education, and people who need a bit of help to get back on their feet should be given a bit of assistance. People who are able to work or go to school but don't shouldn't get anything from public funds.
-Drug laws and the drug war hurt people. Rehabilitation should be out there for people who have problems. People who are receiving public assistance should be expected to refrain from buying drugs including tobacco and alcohol.
-Giving foreign aid is harmful to the United States and foreign intervention is contrary to national sovereignty except in extreme cases. The UN should be responsible for these functions, but also must be brought into the present; the cold war is over. We can be the driving force behind the needed changes.
-Those who damage the environment should pay for all cleanup and restoration. EPA-sanctioned limits on polluting need to end and fees for emissions need to be implemented and grow exponentially above a certain limit. Carbon offsets are part of the solution, but not the whole solution. Making it prohibitively expensive to pollute and making environmentally friendly technology profitable will drive innovation.
-Eminent Domain used for private development is government-sanctioned armed robbery. When used for the true public good, there should be no problem paying property owners no less than double fair market value for their property in order to discourage abuse and compensate them for the inconvenience.
-Gun control beyond basic measures to ensure that those who are a risk to other s do not obtain weapons is abusive and violates the human right to defend the self and others. It is a right that may only be deprived through due process, and only for the good of the public. The right to own guns should not be granted out of need, only prohibited when there is an overwhelming need to do so.
-Immigration is what mad this country great and it should be simple for those who are not wanted criminals or terrorists to enter the country legally and be able to work. Anyone who graduates from an accredited post-secondary school should be granted citizenship.
I'm sure I'll think of more, but that's enough for now.
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
It is our opinion that an individual who is skilled in the accumulation of capital in the face of and in oppositition to every human and social consideration will be found lacking in the necessary skills to run a corporation which is based on achieving public good, bot ammassing capital and profit.
By no means to I especially want the biggest capitalists to clean toilets... I said if they insisted on working in their former organisation then this is appropriate.
When someone leads a private company we must understand that the wealth they have ammassed is directly the result of the exploitation of their workers and of society. To allow them to maintain any kind of power within the democraticised corporation would undermine it.
These capitalist fat cats have exploited sometimes millions and billions of dollars by exploiting the working class, pillaging the environment and ripping off the consumers.. We do not propose ANY punishment for this. We even allow a VERY COMFORTABLE living wage to be paid to these individuals after we have returned all assets of the business and their person to the public, where ownership rightly belongs.
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How about a system in which the workers are partial owners of any company they work for. If the company profits, they profit. If the company does not profit, they do not. It's an incentive for everyone to work hard and do their best, and rewards people in a way directly proportional to their contribution. It seems fair to me.