Every topic here gets badgered from the left and right. We all know how politics works and how lots of things get passed through or never happen because of special interests, etc. So imagine a reverse scenario: You are allowed to pass 3 laws/policies that will remain in effect for 20 years. What are the 3 things you would pass? I know a lot of you argue a lot of points in this forum, but what really matters to you? My three: 1) I would pass a consumption tax and repeal the income tax. The existing tax structure is too complicated. I would set it up such that each person would get a rebate at the end of the year such that their first $X of purchases would be tax free (basically to lower taxation on the poor). Additionally, food would be tax free, as it is today. I think this tackles a lot of tax evasion that happens and at the same time makes a lot easier. In fact I would redeploy the resources saved at the IRS to focus on corporate taxes. 2) Drastically alter social security/retirement savings. Privatize the investment, increase the age at which you earn it, and allow for people to put away more money into tax deferred account on their own. If there was some way to eliminate the benefit for current people under 25, I would do it. I just don't see the government as the most efficient way for providing savings for people. 3) Throw tons of $ at domestic energy solutions. Basically invest in developing more powerful electric cars/hydrogen cars. The electricity for this would come from new nuke plants/nat gas plants. As part of this, we basically eliminate our desire to have anything to do with Israel/Saudi Arabia/et al. Killing the price of oil would basically weaken the entire region and result in the downfall of the regimes that oppress the people. And its done without us spending money overseas. New energy technologies are something that the US could easily export and profit off of in the long run.
1. Consumption tax to replace the income tax. 2. All elections publicly funded with no outside advertising allowed. 3. Regulate and tax currently illegal drugs and use the profits to pay for a real prescription drug plan for the elderly.
1. Means test social security. Say people with an income >250k. My tax dollars shouldn't fund their lifestyles. With the money I'd save, I'd built Soilent Green plants. 2. Repeal every gun control act since 1968. Because. And I would sign an executive order to push skeet/trap shooting and riflery in high schools so that I could singelhandedly remove the gun taboo from American politics, and get us closer to getting gold medals in all the shooting sports in the Olympics. 3. Eliminate ATF, Office of Homeland Security, Dept. of Education, DEA, Office of National Drug Control Policy, and all the other post-WWII bloatings of Federal Government beauracracy. And with all the time I'd save myself and money I would save the taxpayers, I would load up on really hot interns and take them with me on "important Fact Finding Missions" like Congresspeople do all over the world to important hot spots like Tahiti, Fiji, and Ibiza.
I'd cut education funding because I don't want any smart people who might catch on that I was a dictator. I'd greatly enhance the domestic spy operations to keep track of my political enemies. I'd make sure all my friends were rewarded extravagantly through a crooked, rigged system of my making. I'd wrap myself in the flag so people would think I had their best interests at heart. I'd make the judges beholden to me so I could rule with the imprimatur of law. I'd consolidate the media so there would be no dissenting voices out there. Yeah, that's what I'd do. For starters.
I would: 1. Enact a consumption based tax and eliminate all other federal levies. 2. Eliminate every single entitlement program, phased out in a ten year period 3. Force the NBA and MLB to contract at least two teams apiece. 4. Make "The Imperial Death March" my walking music rather than the tame "Hail to the Chief." 5. Start cloning Michael Vick and turning them into an unstoppable army of super-soldiers with cool armor. 6. Conquer Europe and force personal hygiene upon the people. 7. Conquer the Mideast and take their oil from them. 8. Start drilling everywhere we can put a drilling rig out of sight from the coast and in Alaska. 9. Change the paint scheme on Air Force One to one similar to Austin Power's swinging jumbo jet. 10. Eliminate in baseball astroturf, the designated hitter and interleague play with a constitutional amendment. 11. Force the NCAA to have a Division I-A playoff system open to all conferences 12. Eliminate OSHA, EPA, and consolidate all Federal law enforcement agencies into the FBI. 13. Build a huge wall on the border with Mexico and round up and deport every single last illegal alien. Patrol border with the military. 14. Legalize mar1juana and decriminalize other, harder drugs by making only intent to distribute a crime for them. 15. Legalize prostitution. 16. Figure out how to shoot lightning bolts from my fingertips, corrupt Anakin Skywalker, take over the universe.....whoops, wrong movie.......
If I was dictator, I would make everybody wear name tags all the time to make the country friendlier. That way, everyone would know everyone else. It would be like living in a small town.
1. End drug prohibition, tax said drugs 2. Healthcare for every person in the country 3. Sign the Kyoto Treaty, apologize to the world for Bush Others that I would jam down your throat (hey, I'm a dictator!) * hand Iraq over to U.N. * publicly financed elections (except for me, I'm a dictator) * pull out of NAFTA, GATT and other so-called free-trade agreements; implement "fair trade" agreements * free college education for every high school graduate in the country * repeal Bush's tax "cuts," close every corporate tax loophole and implement progressive tax system * end all corporate welfare, implement minimum corporate tax rate * if company sells more than half of their product in the U.S., they're subject to minimum corporate tax rate * destroy the Patriot Act * Make gay marriage legal * Prioritize alternative energy sources in the national energy policy * reshuffle NASA, mandate safe manned missions to Mars and beyond by 2020. * end capital punishment * hand Bush over to War Crimes Tribunal * make it illegal for company to own more than 10 media outlets, none in the same market
It's a Seinfeld reference. But, it does kind of have a Miss America quality to it as well. P.S. GVegan -- as soon as you get your dictatorship in place, let me know. I'm moving to your country! (Do I get a free supply of Tofutti if I sign up for citizenship?)
If we can't GET them out....we will BREED them out--That should fetch just the sort of Noble lord we want, eh?! hehehehe...
