Eliminate all government aid to private businesses, they should sink or swim on their own and that includes banks, airlines, insurance companies, farms etc.
Agreed.
Limit election campaigns to 2 months and cap the spending allowed for each party.
I say revamp the election process all together. Create a “District” wide pool of people that are willing to “Serve” similar to the jury pool.
Take “X” number of people from the pool and then hold an election. The winners move on, the next lowest vote gatherers stay and fill “Local” positions…everyone else goes home.
No parties needed, everything in publicly funded and no “Professional politicians”. Throw in term limits and you pretty much have fixed the whole problem of “Elections”.
Stop all negative media coverage of the economy, they are creating fear and uncertainty.
Disagree, instead we need to do a campaign that is intended to change the minds of the people to “Educate” them on the influence of the media and advertising in general. As soon as the media realizes people aren’t listening anymore maybe they will go back to reporting news rather than sensationalizing everything.
Enforce immigration laws by going after companies hiring illegal workers. It can’t be that hard.
Agreed, as well as eliminating many of the laws that pretty much protect illegal immigrants. Personally I’m not for “Shipping them all back” but for eliminating the minimum wage and allow them to fulfill jobs that we want done but simply can’t afford to have done at minimum wage cost. This would also provide a lower cost labor force as well as opportunity for many other legal citizens.
Reduce the corporate tax rate.
Agreed
All members of Congress who vote for war have to send a family member to fight.
I get the point but believe it’s a rather silly idea. Kinda like saying men should never comment on women having an abortion.
Institute a Peace Corp type program for inside the U.S.
Have it as Fatmouse said. My wife actually has an Americorp volunteer working with her at the health department.
Increase pay for teachers.
I would be for increasing pay for teachers if we revamped the school system. In general I don’t think teachers are all that underpaid and certainly aren’t underpaid in my area. I don’t see increasing pay having much if any effect on education so doing one without the other is simply throwing good money after bad.
Provide tax breaks for stay at home Mothers.
Disagree, but along with my disagreement I believe we should start eliminating “Tax breaks” in general. “Tax breaks” and “Tax credits” are nothing more than the government attempting to influence in what way people spend their money. A married couple with 4 kids with one income, in a house, and paying of college loans should pay the same amount as percentage basis as single person.
Lower personal tax but replace with a consumption or user tax
I might agree with this if you defined “Consumption”. My guess is that if this went to Washington what would happen would be everything that the “poor” bought would have no tax so it would in essence do nothing but raise the burden on the “Rich”.
You could go with a “Flat tax” but unless government did some serious spending cuts the “poor” would flip out as their taxes would go thru the roof.
I would add;
The health care system would be revamped. Education K-12 would be 12 months a year (Teachers would be paid accordingly)An “Efficiency Czar” or committee would be appointed from the private sector to look at every government agency, function etc to see if it could be done more efficiently in the private sector.Legalize drugs of any type and prostitution too.
~Matt
