ElViejo
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Here are some possible reforms for the U.S. Government that I thought might be interesting to discuss. Also, I hope it's all right if I may practice my spanish by writing the spanish equivalent of some paragraphs and including them in my post. I'll make the spanish as little intrusive as possible, and will only use it in the OT of threads I start. Spanish will be italicised and indented, so that you may skip over it if you want to.
Estoy proponiendo aquí algunas reformas posibles por el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos que pueden hechan discusíon interesante. También, lo despiero será admisible que práctico mi español escribiendo el equivocarse de el apartados algunos en español.
Table of Contents:
Tax Reform
I would like to see the current tax system scrapped and replace with a simple flat income tax of 30%, to apply to all citizens and businesses whose income exceeds the poverty line. The benefits of this include simplicity of implementation, as well as ease of implementation. I don't think too many businesses would oppose this plan; as they would keep more of their profits from it.
Another benefit is that it would greatly encourage both citizens and businesses to make more income. Not only would this improve gdp, but it would also raise the amount of government revenue as well. Considering this, it looks to be a win-win situation.
Also, I would reccomend the taxing of illegals along the same lines, with deportation being the punishment for illegals who do not pay their taxes.(note, they still don't have all the rights of citizens, like voting.)
Budget Reform
Here's how I would break down a reformed budget:
The american strength has always, historically, been our Higher education system, which is recognized as the best worldwide. Not only this, but we have always found our strength in atracting the best and the brightest from other countries, who come to The U.S. and stay here. It is these immigrants that make it possible for us to maintain our technological superiority over other nations, and it is our diversity that keeps our civil rights in check(at least in theory.)
I also think that we've gotten a little carried away with our military budget. The next highest spender on military development is china, which spends just 7% of what we spend. We can uphold a fairly decent military with a 10% budget, provided we don't push ourselves into ever international incident that happens, and focus on defense.
Infrastructure is sorely in need of repair. By eliminating wasteful government beauracracy and red tape, as well as all the pork, a 10% budget towards building national infrastructure would be much more than what we are spending now. We could rebuild our national pride in little more than a decade.
But this is incredibly important. Because infrastructure largely a public good. No corporation or business will invest in public goods, because there is no way to make a proft off of them. This is why infrastructure is so important in the budget. It's the only thing we have.
New research grants are definitely important. New research breeds new technology, new technology opens up new venues and markets, new markets and venues increases the economic pie a thousand-fold, and such rises in GDP will mean great rises in government surplusses, without having to raise taxes. It would mean more money for the budget.
Finally, an entire 3rd of the federal budget should be devoted to local governments according to population levels. It is my reccomendation that a lot of the federal beauracracy, though not all, be delegated to local governments that are more capable of quicker response time and better sensitivity to the needs of their respective communities. Government still has a large part to play, but it would be much more efficient and helpful at the local level than at the federal level.
Foreign Policy
Encourage foreign investment when the dollar is weak so as to create jobs and increase our manufacturing capacity, invest in domestic production as well. Then, when the dollar is strong, invest in stable countries with weak currencies to create cheap consumer goods in various industries, all while maintaining production in heavy industries within our own borders.
International incidents can be handled more by international coalitions, and we will increase our standing a thousand-fold in the international community by not dictating our interests. In short, it is in our best interests to see that other nations recieve what is in their best interests. Foreign policy doesn't have to be win-lose, it can be win-win.
Domestic Policy
Focus on civil rights, eliminating poverty through access to higher education, reducing crime rates in urban areas, and eliminating drug use through educational and helping programs. All of these things will be handled by local governments. The federal governments role throughout all this will be to collect information on what works and what doesn't. To run studies on what works, what doesn't. This includes collecting information such as the ingredients and materials in food and consumer goods, ratings of businesses according to open critera, ratings of schools and education performance, etc, etc. The federal government will be essentially the google of what works and what doesn't in local government. All this data should be made public and easily accessible to everyone that wants it.
As to economic regulation, it should be reduced somewhat, but regulations concerning environmental cleanliness and the breaking up of cartels and monopolies should be maintained. Lesser regulations might be instituted by local governments, but even then, too much regulation would cause businesses to move elsewhere, so there is incentive to not regulate so heavily that production falls.
I would also like to see the nationalization of very large banks, while still allowing competition from credit unions and small banks. The large national branch banking system will provide credit and financial assistance to large multinational economic interests that are too big to fail, in essense, insuring that they won't fail. While the vast majority of small businesses will be financed by small banks which have much smaller start-up costs, a greater abillity to rebound in recession(thanks to the large national branch), and much more interest in financing small businesses.(they can't finance big firms, obviously). Again, the regulation of small banks and credit unions should be left to municipalities and towns. The federal government won't evidence it.
Finally, get rid of the electoral system.
Miscellaneous
Here I am going to put things that I personally would like to see, but that ARE NOT, I repeat, ARE NOT part of this reform package. They are just little tidbits and what-not.
Well, this was a rather long post. I am looking forward to seeing what you guys think about this package of reforms. I don't think that they are very extreme reforms. Perhaps a few would be difficult to implement. I don't know. What do you guys think?
Bien, esta lista de la reformas que yo quería descubrir para implementación es muy largosamente. Yo quero que sabe tuyo reaccíon a estas reformas mucho. Gracias para leyendo me hechas muy felíz!
Estoy proponiendo aquí algunas reformas posibles por el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos que pueden hechan discusíon interesante. También, lo despiero será admisible que práctico mi español escribiendo el equivocarse de el apartados algunos en español.
Table of Contents:
- Tax Reform
- Budget Reform
- Foreign Policy
- Domestic Policy
Tax Reform
I would like to see the current tax system scrapped and replace with a simple flat income tax of 30%, to apply to all citizens and businesses whose income exceeds the poverty line. The benefits of this include simplicity of implementation, as well as ease of implementation. I don't think too many businesses would oppose this plan; as they would keep more of their profits from it.
Another benefit is that it would greatly encourage both citizens and businesses to make more income. Not only would this improve gdp, but it would also raise the amount of government revenue as well. Considering this, it looks to be a win-win situation.
Also, I would reccomend the taxing of illegals along the same lines, with deportation being the punishment for illegals who do not pay their taxes.(note, they still don't have all the rights of citizens, like voting.)
Budget Reform
Here's how I would break down a reformed budget:
- 10% towards higher education
- 10% towards infrastructure.
- 10% military spending
- 30% towards New Research Grants
- 30% earmarked for state governments(according to population)
The american strength has always, historically, been our Higher education system, which is recognized as the best worldwide. Not only this, but we have always found our strength in atracting the best and the brightest from other countries, who come to The U.S. and stay here. It is these immigrants that make it possible for us to maintain our technological superiority over other nations, and it is our diversity that keeps our civil rights in check(at least in theory.)
I also think that we've gotten a little carried away with our military budget. The next highest spender on military development is china, which spends just 7% of what we spend. We can uphold a fairly decent military with a 10% budget, provided we don't push ourselves into ever international incident that happens, and focus on defense.
Infrastructure is sorely in need of repair. By eliminating wasteful government beauracracy and red tape, as well as all the pork, a 10% budget towards building national infrastructure would be much more than what we are spending now. We could rebuild our national pride in little more than a decade.
But this is incredibly important. Because infrastructure largely a public good. No corporation or business will invest in public goods, because there is no way to make a proft off of them. This is why infrastructure is so important in the budget. It's the only thing we have.
New research grants are definitely important. New research breeds new technology, new technology opens up new venues and markets, new markets and venues increases the economic pie a thousand-fold, and such rises in GDP will mean great rises in government surplusses, without having to raise taxes. It would mean more money for the budget.
Finally, an entire 3rd of the federal budget should be devoted to local governments according to population levels. It is my reccomendation that a lot of the federal beauracracy, though not all, be delegated to local governments that are more capable of quicker response time and better sensitivity to the needs of their respective communities. Government still has a large part to play, but it would be much more efficient and helpful at the local level than at the federal level.
Foreign Policy
Encourage foreign investment when the dollar is weak so as to create jobs and increase our manufacturing capacity, invest in domestic production as well. Then, when the dollar is strong, invest in stable countries with weak currencies to create cheap consumer goods in various industries, all while maintaining production in heavy industries within our own borders.
International incidents can be handled more by international coalitions, and we will increase our standing a thousand-fold in the international community by not dictating our interests. In short, it is in our best interests to see that other nations recieve what is in their best interests. Foreign policy doesn't have to be win-lose, it can be win-win.
Domestic Policy
Focus on civil rights, eliminating poverty through access to higher education, reducing crime rates in urban areas, and eliminating drug use through educational and helping programs. All of these things will be handled by local governments. The federal governments role throughout all this will be to collect information on what works and what doesn't. To run studies on what works, what doesn't. This includes collecting information such as the ingredients and materials in food and consumer goods, ratings of businesses according to open critera, ratings of schools and education performance, etc, etc. The federal government will be essentially the google of what works and what doesn't in local government. All this data should be made public and easily accessible to everyone that wants it.
As to economic regulation, it should be reduced somewhat, but regulations concerning environmental cleanliness and the breaking up of cartels and monopolies should be maintained. Lesser regulations might be instituted by local governments, but even then, too much regulation would cause businesses to move elsewhere, so there is incentive to not regulate so heavily that production falls.
I would also like to see the nationalization of very large banks, while still allowing competition from credit unions and small banks. The large national branch banking system will provide credit and financial assistance to large multinational economic interests that are too big to fail, in essense, insuring that they won't fail. While the vast majority of small businesses will be financed by small banks which have much smaller start-up costs, a greater abillity to rebound in recession(thanks to the large national branch), and much more interest in financing small businesses.(they can't finance big firms, obviously). Again, the regulation of small banks and credit unions should be left to municipalities and towns. The federal government won't evidence it.
Finally, get rid of the electoral system.
Miscellaneous
Here I am going to put things that I personally would like to see, but that ARE NOT, I repeat, ARE NOT part of this reform package. They are just little tidbits and what-not.
- legalize pot, tax it
- pay off debt with revenue from exports
- legalize gay marriage
- Raise the barrier to becoming a recognized religion
- abolish teacher union, make public schools compete with private schools
Well, this was a rather long post. I am looking forward to seeing what you guys think about this package of reforms. I don't think that they are very extreme reforms. Perhaps a few would be difficult to implement. I don't know. What do you guys think?
Bien, esta lista de la reformas que yo quería descubrir para implementación es muy largosamente. Yo quero que sabe tuyo reaccíon a estas reformas mucho. Gracias para leyendo me hechas muy felíz!
Stop the personal attacks and discuss the topic.