No presidential or U. S.
Congressional campaign shall last more than 90 days.
No state level campaign
shall last more than 60 days.
No lower level campaign shall
last more than 30 days.
Each level must have a
minimum of three debates between ALL candidates.
U.S. Supreme Court ruling
over-turning corporate and political campaign contributions shall be
re-instated. Limit shall be set at $100k.
No candidate may have for national
office, a campaign chest of more than $10m. All campaign costs must come out of
that account, and that account alone. When it’s done, so is the candidate.
Overhaul the IRS and throw
out the tax code. A new one might have a Value Added Tax that applies to
everyone, no exceptions.
Throw out the Operating
Handbook of Rules for both U.S. House and Senate, and re-write them to:
Eliminate all sub-committees.
No bill shall have a life of more than thirty
days until either passed, or voted down. No more of this 9-months nonsense to
pass a simple bill.
No midnight pay raise riders attached to legislation.
No
off-topic amendments added to any legislation, period.
Pay no citizen to vote, and
do not create punishments for those who don’t. The last time at least 60% of
the American voting public did so was 1968. It should be a personal choice.
Voting age shall be 18 nationwide, as shall be the drinking age. If those are
raised to 21, than so shall the age for eligible military enlistment.
On national voting day for
President, no projections shall be broadcast by any media by any means until
the polls close in Hawaii.
Eliminate and ban all
political parties. Eliminate and ban all lobbyists.
No semantic dance around the
Constitution when declaring war, by any President. Only Congress may do so.
Pretty clear.
All American corporations
must bank inside America. No off-shore banking, no dual set of books. No
avoidance of tax responsibilities to the very communities that provide the
resources for them to make their profits.
Federalize the gasoline
industry. Competition between companies is non-existent anyway. It is a
commodity that affects every citizen and thus can no longer be exposed to the
whims of the greedy pigs now in charge. Prices may only be changed twice a
year, in either direction, by no more than 10% each time.
Eliminate the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, the Energy and Education Departments, and the CIA. More
problems stem from these four agencies than any others combined.
Cancel the Patriot Act and
the Affordable Healthcare Act. The former took away some of our freedoms and
right to privacy, and the latter actually fines people who don’t buy it,
because they couldn‘t afford healthcare insurance in the first place. The ACA
is the 2,000 page document Ms. Pelosi famously swore no one read anyway because
they couldn’t understand it. Why should we have to obey it?
Native Americans can no
longer exist as sovereign nations within our borders. Segregation was tried
once before in America. It led to civil war and nearly the permanent division
of the country.
Secure our borders. Change
federal law that now states public schools have to admit anybody that knocks on
the door, citizen or not, speaks our dominant language, English, or not. The
cost to states and districts is in the billions as a result and those same
states and districts are now nearly destitute.
Change the anchor baby law,
which allows women from anywhere to birth their children in America,
automatically granting citizenship. We can’t afford it.
Change the way public schools
are funded. Property-tax based systems favor the rich and the comfortable and
the home owner, and always, always hold back, hurt, and discriminate against
the poor. Put all of a state’s education
funds into one pot and all schools get what they need. That way, suburban
schools don’t get extra practice fields, planetariums, indoor pools, and
closed-circuit t.v. studios, while inner city schools and Appalachian poor go
without windows, heat, books, computers, software, decent furnishings, and all
the rest.
Ban HOA sub-divisions
everywhere. Town and city govts love them because taxpayers pay property taxes
but receive very little from their towns and cities in return, because HOA fees
do so. Availability of non-HOA housing across the country is dwindling because
of this communist concept that someone else has the power to tell you what you
can and cannot do with your own castle.
Close all the law schools. We
have far more lawyers than we shall ever need.
Shut down cash payments of
foreign aid. Foreign aid shall consist only of trade items. It’s incredibly
stupid to send billions overseas while our own country crumbles because of
neglect and the improper distribution of taxpayer dollars. America First. We
need to pay down our $18T debt, the constant and ever-growing elephant in the
room.
All presidential candidates
must produce valid proof of identity and birth, and background and education.
No exceptions.
About half of the govt
offices in Washington should be distributed to other cities around the nation.
It would be an economic shot in the arm for those cities, lower traffic,
housing, and over all congestion problems for Washington, D. C.
No Congressional representative
shall serve more than two terms in a lifetime. All such reps shall, while in
session in Washington, live in military family housing on a military base, for
incredibly cheap housing costs and better security. The concept was never, that
representation shall be a career.
Presidential term shall be
six years and no one shall serve more than one in a lifetime, no matter if the
officer holder dies in office.
Supreme Court jobs shall last
seven years, and no one may have more than one in a lifetime. It’s about
restoring balance and authority to the original concept of Checks and Balances,
currently all but non-existant.
Amtrak must privatize or
disappear. Outside the NE corridor it builds terrible operating losses covered
by the over-burdened American taxpayer.
Overhaul FDR’s welfare state.
Once in a lifetime, two-year eligibility that would require mandatory no-notice
drug testing. Checks to be spent only on basic food groups and not on alcohol,
tobacco, or non-food items. During time on welfare, recipients must attend and
graduate from job training program, and work at least 20 hours weekly on
community improvement project, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps and
other projects of the 1930s accomplished. Cleaning roadsides, clearing forests,
removing debris from crumbling inner-city blocks, all will make a difference.
Overhaul the very
comprehensive yet out of control Farm Bill, which first started to fall apart
in 1933. Congress passed the latest five-year version a year ago to the tune of
$952M, and admitted publicly they didn’t know how to fix it. I do. Stop paying
farmers to grow crops. Stop subsidizing them by the billions. Let market forces
dictate to them what to grow, how much to grow, and when. If they want to eat,
they’ll figure it out.
Eliminate retail subsidies
and enticements. WalMart receives over $7.8B every year from your govt
(taxpayers). About $6.2B goes to pay for food stamps, subsidized housing, and
Medicaid to their own employees, which the company should be paying for out of
its gross profits. They recently announced a min. wage raise effective April
2015 to $9 hr, and again in Feb 2016 to $10 hr. Wonderful, except the feds have
set the national poverty income level at $11.90 an hour, NOW. Since when should
American taxpayers pay for the benefits of a privately owned family business?
Just because we help out NFL owners by building their stadiums for them doesn’t
mean we can help everyone.
At age 18, all citizens must
mandatory do two years of national service. In the military, in hospitals, in
food banks, in shelters, I don’t really care. But, just like the Mormons off
riding their bikes all over the country for two years, spreading whatever, the
rest of the populace should be helping as well. Beats getting blasted at Spring
Break.
No federal mandates of any
type without accompanying, at the same time, appropriate federal dollars to pay
for them. Pretty simple. I think this is called State’s Rights.
I honestly believe that if we
do not, at a minimum, restore Checks and Balances and get Tax and Spend under
control, even our current Plutocracy form of government will disappear. The
heck with Socialism and presidents and billionaires who support such nonsense.
Country was established and developed by working people without any help from
their government, save a well-defended country in which to pursue life,
liberty, and happiness. Let’s try this again.
Thank you.
