As your next President of the United States, before the end of my first five days in office, I will:
- Eliminate all incentives for outsourcing jobs & require the return a minimum of 66% of all jobs that have already been outsourced.
- Permanently eliminate the $106,800 cap on the Social Security tax.
- Permanently eliminate the current 2,800-page U.S. Tax code and replace it with a two-sentence tax code:
- All U.S. citizens will pay 12% of any money they earn annually, regardless of source, type or designation.
- All businesses operating or incorporated within the United States will pay a flat 19% annual tax, without exemption, exception, or deferment.
- Revoke the deployment of all U.S. National Guard troops to any location outside the natural boarders of the 48 contiguous United States, Hawaii and Alaska.
- Reduce the salary of the United States Congress to a flat $125,000 per year, and strip Congress of any and all benefits and perquisites that any other citizen of the United States does not receive.
- Increase the base salary for teachers, firefighters, police, paramedics and non-doctoral medical professionals by 30 percent.
- Order the immediate arrest of any U.S. citizen or business that avoids or has avoided their tax obligation by hiding funds overseas.
- Immediately replace all money taken out of the Social Security fund for non-Social Security uses, and the money will come directly from a 40% reduction in Defense and Defense Contract budgets.
- Revoke the tax-exempt status of all churches and religious organizations that attempt to influence or participate in the operation of government.
- Implement an immediate and retroactive two-term maximum term of service for any individual in any capacity in the U.S. Congress.
- Be assassinated.
Posted in: Political Observations
Gary St. Lawrence
Angela Manchester
September 13, 2011
Hope you meant, “that any other citizen of the United States does NOT receive. “
Gary St. Lawrence
September 13, 2011
My blog and I stand corrected. Thanks for the catch.
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placidair
October 7, 2011
1. Eliminating incentives is a definite yes — I think part 2 of this would be harder than you’d expect at this point because while jobs were shipping overseas, education was also taking a hit… so some jobs there simply may be too few Americans who are equipped to do them. Rebuilding the education infrastructure and going back and offering education to those who simply slid through the system without actually learning may be needed to bring back many of those jobs.
2. If you eliminate the cap on FICA, you also need to eliminate the cap on payout — otherwise it becomes unfair.
3. I suspect 15% and 20% are more realistic for fully funding the government. Would love 12%, but just don’t see it as enough.
4. — absolutely
5. If you reduce their salaries, you open them up to looking for funds from other sources and could theoretically make them even more likely to be bought and sold. How about instead, we have serious campaign finance reform? All candidates who have enough signatures to get on the ballot in the first place get the exact same $ from a public pool of funds, and neither they — nor anyone else, can spend so much as a single penny more — if it’s found that they have spent more, they are pulled off the ballot. They can put up a website with their position on issues, and have televised debates which must include ALL the candidates, not just the ones who could get alternative funding… let the voters work from that to decide what button to push on election day.
6. 30% may be pushing the envelope — 20% would do much good without breaking the bank. Merit pay based on performance and effort would also be a good thing — the teacher who stays after school voluntarily to help kids with their homework and answer questions is inherently worth more than the teacher who runs from the building as soon as that last bell sounds and doesn’t look back. While we’re at it, let’s make sure the schools themselves are funded — teachers should not have to buy school supplies with their own funds to distribute to kids who can’t afford them — and yet many do. If a kid is supposed to have 10 #2 pencils, let the school hand the kid 10 #2 pencils at the beginning of the year from IT’s budget, not the teacher’s pocket.
7. Absolutely
8. You may have to look at more funding sources. Please don’t consider cutting benefits to those who’ve served this country voluntarily and with the best of intentions, in fact we should be taking BETTER care of our veterans, whether we agree with any individual war, or not, we need to realize that the vast majority of those who went there, went in good faith and for us.
9. 100% agreement on that one — why are churches tax exempt in the first place? And how about they lose that status for their businesses that aren’t the standard business of churches? There are “churches” who own rental housing and in the construction business — sorry, but when you branch out of the business of holding church services, etc. into “business business” you shouldn’t be tax exempt for those off-shoots.
10. See 5 above…. we have the option to get rid of them already — it’s called voting. And with the bullshit factor removed from campaigning, we’re all more apt to do a better job of it — and more likely to get candidates worth voting for in the first place.
11. I hope not!