I was struck by a poster in another thread that referred to a 2nd poster as driving on both sides of the political road. I just thought that everyone did except for a very few ideologues Where do you come down on- 1. On a balanced Budget? a. overspend on military b. overspend on social programs c. neither 2. Drug laws? a. Prohibition b. decriminalization c. Legalization . 3. Abortion a. Prohibition- similar to 60s and before b. Abortion on demand c. In 1st trimester only or if Mother's life or Baby's health 4. Foreign policy intervention in other countries 5. Support for Israel 6. Health care a. single payer b. national health c. present system of employer provided 7. Immigration .a. Deportation+ build a wall b path to citizenship + build a wall- Deport for any crime c. Welcome all after preliminary vetting 8. Taxes a. progressive taxation with targeted deductions as present b. one flat rate no deductions c. progressive tax rates no deductions c. Consumption tax replacement of income taxes
Balanced. Legalization (same for suicide) Current laws - pro-choice Working with other nations for mutual security and trade, this includes Israel. The problem with health care, IMO, is medical costs, not having other people pay for it. Immigration reform. Make it illegal to hire, harbor or otherwise support illegal immigrants. Provide employers, renters, etc tools to verify residency. A balance budget goes hand-in-hand with taxes. Personally, I think a flat-tax, no deductions of 20% on income over a certain amount, say annual minimum wage, would make it easier on everything.
1. C. Overspend on neither military nor social programs. 2. B. Decriminalization 3. A. Prohibition 4. Don't intervene in other countries 5. Stop support for the apartheid/military/welfare state aka Israel 6. All three but with an overhaul starting with pricing transparency 7. A for the next few decades, then maybe we can revisit b. 8. We should have a flat tax but I'm open to hearing arguments on consumption tax.
1. Balancing the budget is easy no matter the tax rate. All you have to do is hold spending increases to less than the rate of economic growth and six or seven years down the road you have a balanced budget. You shouldn't overspend on anything but there is so much waste and duplication within the federal government right now and more if you include state local and county governments that just removing those things would probably reduce the deficit significantly 2. Marijuana should be treat the same way as booze. A lot of other things simply pose too much of a threat to public safety to be made legal. 3.Pre roe. Legal in the case of Rape, incest and threats to the mothers health and life. 4.Case by case basis all situation are different. Intervening in Libya, was a gross mistake, no matter how badly the French wanted the oil. Iraq unless you want US forces permanently stationed in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, was a necessity. 5. Joint defense projects with Israel have proven to be mutually beneficial especially in terms of Missile defense. 6.None of the above. give people a tax write off for health care spending and remove limits on health savings account so that pretax dollars can be used to fund insurance purchases on other things. Let people select whatever level of medical care they want for their own situation. 7. Build a wall, police the wall. Deport Criminals and no path to citizenship for those who enter the country illegally. There is no point at which we should be doing things that encourage bad behavior in others. 8. Flat tax of 20% on all income above 35k. Applied to business and individuals.
a. I like your idea on the flat tax rate, that is something I can get behind b same with the wall c. Both of your ideas on healthcare are the same, if you can deduct it no need for flex accounts
Not exactly the same Flex accounts let you set money aside in advance tax write off are a once a year and that makes budgeting more difficult.
