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Originally Posted by Jim B.
Get rid of corporate and multimillionaire political bribery
Get rid of deficit spending and balance the budget, live within your means.
Reduce fraud & waste in the military, cut the SIZE of the military and stop useless unwinnable foreign capers ander trying to be the policeman of the whole world
A fair taxation for all, same rate across the board, eliminate corporate tax dodges, off shore havens, accounting tricks.
Make welfare and food stamps for the poor realistically contingent and tied to, in some meaningful way --- with self improvement, education and population control and unfettered access to birth control and no crime and drug abuse, somehow in a way that gives self reliance, hope, direction and purpose.
Stop rewarding and making worthwhile illegal immigration
Repeal citizens United at the Supreme Court which in effect says corporate money = votes.
Death penalty for parking tickets (not really --- just making sure you are paying attention here)
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Jim,
I would tell you just how much of what you write that I agree with except I'm afraid it would scare you into a heart attack.
Except for your last one,
I GENERALLY agree with what you wrote.
I think that if we were sitting down getting specific on some of them or the approach we would use to accomplish it, we might be at odds, but I totally agree all of it except ONE minor point as it's written.
On the first one, I would agree under any circumstances, but I believe that the politicians BUYING votes in the form of handouts of our tax money has more influence on elections than the influenced of the wealthy. Of course, there's no way to confirm exactly how much effect either of them have, so what I bring up is a philosophical argument anyway.