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I like your idea about hemp. Perhaps combine that with slashing subsidies for ethanol, which distorts food prices across the board.
I am unsure about that, I had always assumed corn was where our ethanol came from. I would like to get the corn seed industry more "fair" as apparently much corn seed comes from one all controlling company that forces farmers into using their seeds. I am not sure how this monopoly was formed. I do know that before the great depression, hemp was our #1 cash crop. I am 100% for revitializing our agriculture indudstry as much as possible.
Nationalise the chocolate industry.
As president, I would try to push through a few more amendments to the constitution. I don't know how successful I would be to get legislators to agree to the following amendments:
1) Congress shall not lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may he absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws.
Hey it's like the anti-interstate commerce clause! Interpreted widely enough to overturn any number of safety regulations.2) Congress shall make no laws abridging the freedom of sellers of goods or labor to price their products or services.
Legalized assassins! Laws against murder abridge my right to kill!3) No State shall make or impose any law which shall abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to follow any occupation or profession of his choice.
Translation: No more bans on tainted or untested food/drugs! Woohoo! (after all, who defines "legitimate?")4) The right of the people to buy and sell legitimate goods and services at mutually acceptable terms shall not be infringed by Congress or any of the States.
Ok, so you don't like progressive income taxes.5) The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes of persons, from whatever sources derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration, provided that the same tax rate is applied to all income in excess of occupational and business expenses and a personal allowance of a fixed amount. The word "person" shall exclude corporations and other artificial persons.
Sorry South Korea. We'd love to come help you against this invastion from the north but our constitution says we can't spend any more this year6) Congress shall have the power to authorize non-interestbearing obligations of the government in the form of currency or book entries, provided that the total dollar amount outstanding increases by no more than 5 percent per year and no less than 3 percent.
Ohh...kaayy..7) All contracts between the U.S. government and other parties stated in dollars, and all dollar sums contained in federal laws, shall be adjusted annually to allow for the change in the general level of prices (luring the prior year.)
I would like such amendments to remain unchangeable like the Bill of Rights. Basically, I would support any reform that would separate the state from the economic sector.
-Allow immigrants in by completing a simple test to be American citizens. The immigrant is not entitled to any loans or special incentives that are not entitled to naturalized Americans already. However they are given no tax breaks of any kind and pay full taxes (with no chance of tax return) their first 5 years in the US.
As president, I would try to push through a few more amendments to the constitution. I don't know how successful I would be to get legislators to agree to the following amendments:
1) Congress shall not lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may he absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws.
2) Congress shall make no laws abridging the freedom of sellers of goods or labor to price their products or services.
3) No State shall make or impose any law which shall abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to follow any occupation or profession of his choice.
4) The right of the people to buy and sell legitimate goods and services at mutually acceptable terms shall not be infringed by Congress or any of the States.
5) The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes of persons, from whatever sources derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration, provided that the same tax rate is applied to all income in excess of occupational and business expenses and a personal allowance of a fixed amount. The word "person" shall exclude corporations and other artificial persons.
6) Congress shall have the power to authorize non-interestbearing obligations of the government in the form of currency or book entries, provided that the total dollar amount outstanding increases by no more than 5 percent per year and no less than 3 percent.
7) All contracts between the U.S. government and other parties stated in dollars, and all dollar sums contained in federal laws, shall be adjusted annually to allow for the change in the general level of prices (luring the prior year.)
I would like such amendments to remain unchangeable like the Bill of Rights. Basically, I would support any reform that would separate the state from the economic sector.
i seem to remember the president can't really do much except start wars and veto things other than that it is mostly shaking hands and sucking a$$holes. i think it's congress you are talking about.
Why treat them like full citizens except keep all their money? This sounds very authoritarian to me. Either they are or are not full citizens, but I don't understand the motive behind keeping all their taxes. Why motivate them NOT to work while here? I'd easily get around your stupid little law by becoming a citizen, going back to my home country for 5 years, and coming back when I would be treated like a full citizen.
This thread isn't about what someone would do as President, but as supreme ruler. Most of the things that have been suggested would be entirely impossible under anything even remotely resembling the U.S. system of government.
Why not say you'd make people able to fly too? Makes about as much sense.
If I werePresidentRuler, I would push for laws, programs or whatever legal changes would be necessary to do the following
1- repeal Taft Hartley.
Giving unions more power and control... Bad idea.
2- adopt the card check system for joining a union
"Since people aren't doing the right thing by voting in more unions, we're going to force them to do the right thing." Taking away the secret ballot and making a persons vote either for, or against, forming a union public, subjecting them to retribution by union reps and their fellow workers, is a really bad idea.
3- place a high tariff on any products brought into America from American companies who set up shop elsewhere
ie, "If we can't getcha through the front door, we'll getcha through the back. Forcing companies who couldn't afford to operate in the US totally out of business is another bad idea.
4- tax all monetary earnings as income
Every kid in America with a lemonade stand is going to love that.
5- institute a mandatory corporate tax system which makes sure that all corporations are taxed and the public shame of companies making billions in profit but evading taxes would be stopped
That's a nice thought, but if it could be done I think it would have been done already. Good luck with that one.
6- raise the top income tax level to 49.7%
Punish success by taking half of a persons earnings. The government knows best how to spend someones money... Right? A person gets a better shake from a loan shark.
7- pop the 106K cap for FICA tax and tax all income or earnings for SS purposes while freezing benefits plus inflation and place all SS monies into a lock box
This one, I like.
8 - bring back the Fairness Doctrine for the public airwaves
"Since the liberal perspective isn't very popular to radio listeners, we're going to make it popular... whether you like it or not!" The government knows best... Right?
9 - get rid of the year by year grade system in public schools and replace it with a simple “learn this lesson and move on to the next one” system
If you want our kids to learn something, get the government the hell out of the education business. Turn the school system over to the private sector, end tenure, and get rid of the teachers unions that protect bad educators.
10 - overrule the Citizens versus United decision and its effects
Screw the constitution!
11 - rebuild our national infrastructure
We need money for that. To get money, we have to encourage the creation of more companies and the expansion of businesses. Raising taxes won't achieve this.
12 - build a high speed rail system across the land
If a high speed rail was a financially sustainable, sound idea, the private sector would have already done it. The government shouldn't be throwing tax payer money away on multi-billion dollar projects, just because they "sound nice" or fit a certain agenda. We don't need another Amtrak.
13- institute penalties for corporations committing economic treason against the workers of the USA
Why don't you just say it... Communism.
14 - drastically lower defense spending and foreign entanglements and wars
"Absolutely necessary" being rather subjective, this will be another fun addition!
Hey it's like the anti-interstate commerce clause! Interpreted widely enough to overturn any number of safety regulations.
Legalized assassins! Laws against murder abridge my right to kill!
Translation: No more bans on tainted or untested food/drugs! Woohoo! (after all, who defines "legitimate?")
Ok, so you don't like progressive income taxes.
Sorry South Korea. We'd love to come help you against this invastion from the north but our constitution says we can't spend any more this year
There's nothing about the Bill of Rights that is particularly unchangeable. Not that any of this is the president's decision
You put a lot of thought into this. Your post reminds me of the film LITTLE BIG MAN where the Dustin Hoffman character tells General George Custer to go down in the valley and he will be safe from the attacking Indians. So they play this game where they try to fool each other and Custer says that Hoffman is the perfect reverse barometer of what he should do.
I would oppose each one of those items and they illustrate perfectly what is wrong with modern libertarian political thought.
If I were President, I would push for laws, programs or whatever legal changes would be necessary to do the following
1- repeal Taft Hartley.
2- adopt the card check system for joining a union
3- place a high tariff on any products brought into America from American companies who set up shop elsewhere
4- tax all monetary earnings as income
5- institute a mandatory corporate tax system which makes sure that all corporations are taxed and the public shame of companies making billions in profit but evading taxes would be stopped
6- raise the top income tax level to 49.7%
7- pop the 106K cap for FICA tax and tax all income or earnings for SS purposes while freezing benefits plus inflation and place all SS monies into a lock box
8 - bring back the Fairness Doctrine for the public airwaves
9 - get rid of the year by year grade system in public schools and replace it with a simple “learn this lesson and move on to the next one” system
10 - overrule the Citizens versus United decision and its effects
11 - rebuild our national infrastructure
12 - build a high speed rail system across the land
13- institute penalties for corporations committing economic treason against the workers of the USA
14 - drastically lower defense spending and foreign entanglements and wars
I am sure plenty of these kinds of threads have been made but here is mine, and here is what I would do. Basically just imagine you have more control than what is normal for an executive branch, or what you would like to be done if you were president and would like congress to pass. Here are mine with reasons why:
Abortion: made illegal nationwide unless in cases of incest or rape, not paid for by states but the cost will be very low for the victim.
Marriage: Let anyone who wants to marry, marry (of age).
Drugs: Better regulated not allowed to have all these bull**** drugs that are "just enough" because you being cured is profitable for drug companies. It has to have proven very good results.
Recreational Drugs: Marijuana, and by extension hemp growing is made legal, must have a license (that you get from your state) to grow marijuana, hemp is subsidized by government for use in products such as rope, baskets, agriculture needs, etc. The cost of the license will help with state funding.
All government departments are given a stringent look. Specifically a few things:
-The intelligence community will be heavily consolidated to become much more efficient at gathering information, essentially the FBI and CIA will take control of these little extra departments that have been made between 2001 and now.
-Social Security will go a few ways: You can elect to keep your social security payments going for much less back (and less taken out for social security in the first place) if you are already 45+ you are guaranteed the social security promised to you. Under that age you can elect to get a percentage of it back to you over X amount of time in the form of a massive tax break ie you will not have to pay any federal taxes for the percentage you are refunded. This will reduce cost greatly.
-The Department of Defense will be heavily consolidated. Branches of the military will merge, forts and bases will close on foreign lands, and we will instead work heavily with our allies in regions countries we may have problems with including allies such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, India, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and so on. This will reduce the cost of the budget for DoD greatly.
-Social programs such as welfare, medical cards, food stamps, etc will be given a good hard look, it will be harder to dupe the system, and more effort will be taken to place these people in work rather than live off the system. This will save tons of money.
-College by way of getting all As in grade school, serving in military, agreeing to do x amount of community service, etc will be free.
-Give massive incentive for companies to do business in America, including foreign companies to do business here. Companies that do business elsewhere American or not get no incentives, and are taxed full amount. This will save money and create jobs.
-Give government consolidated business and agriculture loans for $50,000+ to any business or farmer with a solid plan. If it is to fail, because it was approved by the government they are not required to give the loan back, otherwise the loan can be paid within 15 years.
-Reinvest in transit and rail system heavily. This will reduce our dependency on certain fuels, and cut cost on transporting materials heavily while reintroducing American manufacturing and travelers to the wonder of rails.
-Allow immigrants in by completing a simple test to be American citizens. The immigrant is not entitled to any loans or special incentives that are not entitled to naturalized Americans already. However they are given no tax breaks of any kind and pay full taxes (with no chance of tax return) their first 5 years in the US.
-Make free healthcare
-Give the Department of Agriculture overall an overhaul
-Give the Department of Education an overhaul with much higher standards for what children must learn within science and math before graduating highschool
-Place blockades on China because **** them that's why
That is all I can think of off the top of my head.
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