We have tremendous amounts of $$$ at our disposal - if we really wanted it

[Hugabear]

Raise the damned taxes on the wealthiest Americans. End corporate welfare, make them start paying their share. Stop placing the burden on the poor and middle class, then turning around and cutting our social programs.

Oh, and stopping the wars and bringing our troops home would really help.

[jemelanson]

1. Ideas

1. End the Wars all three of them. Within the next three months. Complete draw down and bring them all home.

2. Return to the Clinton Era of Tax rates or better yet the 1960's era Tax rates.

3. Revise the Tax code to removed all those little loopholes and restructure the Tax code and simplify it basic stuff. If you need a CPA to figure out your tax liability it is too complicated and rigged to the advantage of those who can afford to hire a CPA to figure their taxes. This applies to all income, and all entities, individuals, partnerships, corporations, churches, and everyone else. Real and personal property taxes also. Estate Tax on estates over $5,000,000.00

4. A strict limit on how much any real person (flesh and blood, living person of who is of legal age and registered to vote). If you are not a real person then you can not donate to any political campaign, PAC, or Political Party.

5. Term limits for all levels of elected government office, Federal, State, County, City.

6. Full public disclosure (name, amount) of all donations (Monetary or in-kind) made to Political Campaigns, PACs, Parties. Restrictions on how that money can be spent. A candidate can not use donated funds to pay personal expenses.

7. A return to the policy of equal air time for all candidates and parties on Television, Radio, or other media.

That should be a good start for getting the USA back on the right path and back to what our founding Fathers had in mind when they got this whole thing started.

IMHO

[Hugabear]

2. K&R your response. nt

Nt

[Scuba]

6. +1,000

[Norrin Radd]

3. kr

[snappyturtle]

4. The congress critters know this too. Question: Why won't they do it? nt

[Stuart G]

5. No truer words were ever spoken...nt

[WinkyDink]

7. Exactly. The problem is: We'd be entering Assassination City.

The Kochs and the M-I c rule.

[tomp]

8. can we PLEASE get real!

neither PARTY wants to tax the rich or corporations because they BOTH serve the rich and the corporations.

NEITHER party is "WE".

until you get THAT, you get nothing about american politics.

[Donnachaidh]

9. I await the day when the argument used to give insurance companies the chains to bind us

Is used to keep the military industrial complex alive--

*Do you really want to hurt 1/6th of the economy by stopping the production of bombs, planes and bullets?*

That will become yet another argument to continue the corporate/elitist rape of the American people.