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I want to be constructive about this topic. The /next/ president of the United States should be/campaign on: * A new new deal; end 'handouts', make it the
by mjevans 10y ago
I want to be constructive about this topic. The /next/ president of the United States should be/campaign on:
* A new new deal; end 'handouts', make it the government's job to offer productive job placement.
** This includes retraining for such
** or if that really can't work out (disability/age/etc)
*** then 'retire' someone (frame the handout with a different name).
* Simplify taxes (single plugin equation for base tax)
* Simplify healthcare (everyone has everything, part of taxes)
** Deductions / penalties as carrot / stick to encourage behavior.
** Make all of the doctors in the area 'bid' (like a dutch auction) to set the price of covered activities.
** Free (to the user at the time) contraceptives, planning, and health education.
* Secondary issue: The rent is too high // commute is too busy.
** Caused by lack of urban planning
** Poor housing quality/density near jobs
** Poor schools near jobs (as a result)
** School funding and core skills should be national funding.
** Raise the standard of privacy, quality of life, and SIZES of units in cities to make them family friendly.
** Increase market competition in cities, to make the rent family friendly.
** Get the families that can living closer to their jobs to free up the freeways.
* Secondary Issue: Transparency (groundwork).
** ALL secrets must have an identifying catalog 'number' and 'sunset day'.
** A 'sunset day' is when it is automatically no longer classified; auto-released and published openly.
** A 'sunset day' cannot be more than 10 years in to the future.
** Secrets can be reviewed by an adversarial court process and the 'sunset day' updated (10 years from that day).
* Secondary Issue: Transparency (budget)
** Secrets would be become 'line items' in a given fiscal year's budget.
** Top down allocation of resources, until they're hidden in secrets, justified, or pooled up (e.g. office supplies).
** Show every person where their tax dollars are going
Have a website where they can put in how much they paid in taxes and see several graphs showing them where things went.
- dguaraglia 10y ago> * A new new deal; end 'handouts', make it the government's job to offer productive job placement. Would you consider medicine and living arrangements for people who can't work for psychological or physical reasons "a handout"?
- mjevans 10y agoI'm trying to use the same language that those who hate the current programs do to get their attention and get them to give a more fair, inclusive, and socially beneficial (people having jobs is good, right?) alternative a fair consideration. In a literal sense, ANY help from the government. Be it roads, police (military), fire protection, etc; is a handout. The word may as well be meaningless aside from attaching an emotional buzzword response to something. Please focus on the actual ideas discussed, and not the language (unless commenting on a more effective way of conveying the message with a specific wording).
- mjevans 10y agoAlso, from a different perspective (and thus another post). This is a good campaign training question. "Those who are unfit for any work should be retired from the work force. I think we can all agree that retirees often need assistance with living safely and still deserve a rich environment to have a fulfilling life experience."
- LyndsySimon 10y agoAfter a cursory read-through, I can find nothing in that list that I would support - and nothing that would appeal to the majority of those on the right.
- mjevans 10y agoWhat would your ideal candidate focus on?
- LyndsySimon 10y agoReducing the size and scope of government.
- mjevans 10y agoI don't believe you've identified a target goal, merely a target direction.