The Planks of my Political Platform.
1) One bill, one subject, one vote, up or down.
2) Bills must be posted, as written , for one week for public comment/awareness
3) Flat Tax, fair and balanced so the rich still bear the highest burden
4) No Death Tax, the heirs deserve what the family can leave them
a) It’s all been taxed once already
5) Equal financial rights for Gays, includes marriage.
6) All special interest groups are banned from political donations.
a) Unions, PACS. 501C’s, you name it.
b) No donation without a verifiable individual Tax I.D. # which proves/validities source
c) Internet donations must also have Tax I.D # encrypted for privacy
d) Elections only funded through Public means via 1040 forms
7) Stop letting the United Nations determine U.S.
a) The United Nations is owned and run by the African Countries
b) Stop funding world objectives, take care of business at home
c) Leave the United Nations
8) Term Limits, no more professional Politicians, two terms Senate, two terms House or any combination thereof Candidates can be funded for one year to learn the systems of the Government
9) No Government intervention into Healthcare
a) No 16,000 IRS agents collecting monies to force folks to get healthcare
b) No strong arming Doctors
c) No penalty for not having Health Insurance
d) No health facility can deny service
e) No use of “prior conditions” in determining cost or treatment
10) No Bank or other Financial entity can donate to a Politician
11) No Earmarks, let the States fund their own needs as required
12) No Bill can increase the deficit
13) Any State that requires bailout due to fiscal issues must submit to Federal oversight of the funds being spent.
a) Insolvent Union Pension funds must pay out only what they can
b) No State has to make up for poor investments by union fund investors
14) No Federal level funding of Abortions, State funding of Abortions is not and will not be compensated by the Federal Government.
15) Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid will be the primary funded retirement funds, no other gimmicks, no other fund, no other system.
16) Unemployment benefits must have a limit, one Bill, one vote, binding for 10 years to set the limit.
17) No Nanny laws, let Americans eat, drink or smoke themselves to death
18) Set up a welfare fraud task force, validate all welfare claims using local officials
19) No “to big to fail” let Chapter 11 do it’s work
20) Legalize the current population in the country illegally
a) Individuals must pay back taxes
i) Chances are they haven’t made enough to pay a dime
b) Families must prove offspring location of birth, if U.S.
c) Make Social Security cards as hard to counterfeit as $100 bills
d) Set up Federal funded loans, to be paid back by the immigrant to learn our governments ways and means
e) Establish guidelines for employers such that if the illegal has falsified citizenship they are not fined
f) Allow States with a border to participate in Border enforcement
21) Establish a law designed to pay off the debt by “X” and stick to it
22) Establish a voting system/machine that is universal to every election
a) No special interest influence, only impartial scientists
23) Improve oversight of all high budget high dollar budgetary items
a) Defense
b) Medicaid
c) Medicare
d) Social Security
e) Audit all Government depts..
24) Every person serving our country has to publish a birth certificate
a) Internal only to be validated by the FBI
TD
ReplyDeleteA thought provoking post. Needful of consideration by all who read this thread.
My initial question having skimmed through for the first time is as follows Quote: No penalty for not having Health Insurance
d) No health facility can deny service Unquote.
TD who pays the costs when there is no insurance and a facility is compelled to provide treatment? I presume there will be no Obamacare.
Cheers from Aussie
"No penalty for not having Health Insurance"
DeleteUnder Obamacare folks that do not/will not have health care insurance pay a fine, collected by the 16,000 IRS agents the bill includes funding for.
TD, there is plenty there I agree with. I could post a multi point platform as well, but it's moot. The perfect world you and I imagine would result from our platforms is so far from where reality currently resides, there is zero chance of bringing it to fruition. Is the best answer to that scenario to sulk and tell the world to F off until they see our truth?
DeleteThe world is not changed by people who show up to vote and scurry back to their computers to do nothing but bitch and post links of doom. We can assume you teaching your children how bad liberals and Obama are, but what else do you do to recreate the world in your image?
My five year olds aren't taught politics, they are taught to know the difference between right and wrong, they are taught to make make the right choices. Currently the folks in DC are making the wrong choices and the choices they are making are going to hurt my children.
DeletePlese note I said "the folks in DC" not the dems or the pubs
Kingston, those of us who pay over $2,600 a month for health coverage pay for those who have none. I recently negotiated a procedure for $160 that was out of my network and , while covered, covered at a greater reduced rate.
ReplyDeleteI had to pay cash up-front because the doc I preferred was NOT in my network. Because I know HOW to negotiate, and because I could pay the amount, it worked with negotiation.
For those who cannot negotiate, don't know they can even negotiate, are on the dole---------the state pays whatever the Dr. or Hospital requires.
This system is broken------BUT it can be fixed. Question is, is there the will to fix it????
Here in lies the problem. Everyone wishes we could insure everyone in the country. We can't afford it in todays taxation system. No one want st payu more. The 47% don't want to pay more, neither do the 53% paying today.
DeleteToday Obamacare will cost us 280 billion more in the first year above the taxes they expect to collect, (estimate is probably low). That will be added to our debt every year for the first 10 years then it will go up.
We are 1 trillion plus a year in the red every year, add in the 280 billion. How do we pay this bill? It's nice that everyone has healthcare, who is going to pay this bill????
The system that is broken is the system that allows us to spend over a trillion dollars that we do not have.
"We can't afford it in todays taxation system"
DeleteBingo. That is the entire story right there. Who is going to pay the bill indeed. As it stands now, we simply shift cost away from the for profit group and stick it to the taxpayers. If we refused admittance to hospitals of those without insurance, we would not have the costs we do today. Likewise, if we told seniors, you can have enough morphine to die in peace but nothing else if you can't afford it, we also would not have the cost. The problem Lou, which you just nailed, is that we DO want a basic level of healthcare for everyone, but we don't want to actually pay for it.
The problem Lou, which you just nailed, is that we DO want a basic level of healthcare for everyone, but we don't want to actually pay for it.
DeleteWe can afford a basic level of healthcare. we cannot afford the cadillac plan.
No BC pills, no Cholesterol pills no freebies.
A 50 dollar co-pay instead of 20.00 of no co-pay i.e. medicaid.
A plan to reduce obesity to reduce costs.
Without the free stuff, maybe we could do this and do it well.
I honestly don't understand the BC thing. There are plenty of things in our health care system to be morally opposed to, yet, this one is a major lightening rod.
DeleteAs for copays and plans to reduce obesity, no argument there. Our system is not about health, it is vastly geared towards paying for drugs and procedures that help offset the effects of an unhealthy lifestyle. Health is a multi layer deal. I rarely see people who are emotionally happy and in good shape come into the ICU for a heart attack. That so many people are so unhappy should be a subject of interest. As far as healthcare goes, it isn't.
TD, your platform sounds exactly like the one followed by the leaders of the USSR and later Russia. Amazing coincidence.
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DeletePlease explain how TD's list is similar to the USSR in any way..
DeleteI'm curious as to where your comment comes from.