Originally posted by jjf3rd77
I would also give all military personnel 3X salary raise perhaps more. They deserve it more than anybody!
A 3x salar increase for all military personnel on one third of the budget? Interesting.
I would get rid of political favoritism to Big Oil as well as Energy companies or startups.
How?
Government would truly be transparent. Everything, and I mean everything about the government would go on the net. It happens in limited circumstances today all the time, it's time this 24/7 connected world gets to see what goes on behind the scenes.
This includes all Top-Secret programs as well!
A noble aim, but I'm not too sure how practical it is. Some less 'official' parts of government (for example private meetings between individual politicians) would also be very hard to make transparent.
Free Market.
A generally free market is best, yes.
Make paper money actually worth something again by letting Gold back it up!
Gold backed money has value in the same way that fiat money has value - because people believe it to be valuable. Commodity backed currencies are inherently unstable, and have all sorts of other problems. I suggest you do some reading on it.
I would legalize Marijuana with extreme sanctions like better security for Doctor's Notes. Even perhaps other drugs.
Fantastic.
I would implement a single payer simple health care system with opt-out options and upgradeable options like if you remain healthy for a certain amount of time your health care pay goes down, if not it goes up! Just like car payments. If you choose not to get Government health care, you are responsible for getting your own expensive packages from corporations.
A step in the right direction, I suppose.
None but heavy cyber and network security-- The government has no place building buildings.
The US has a crumbling infrastructure in many places, and government infrastructure projects could help to provide a very helpful stimulus to the economy.
Would deal with talking about the issues and finding out who are friends really are, and if there could ever possibly be a an option for world peace.
A nice idea in theory. Not too sure how practical it is.
I would make it a mission to teach children all about computer science and computers themselves.
Yes, education about and access to computers is required if you are to have an educated and effective workforce in the future.
We are going to get rid of it and replace it with an easier transparent version so that people can understand it and what they are paying for.
It does need huge simplification.
With my tax plan and transparency plan, the public will decide, probably online, where and when the funds go and to what.
Interesting, but I'm not sure the general public can really be trusted to make these sort of decisions as they won't have looked in depth at the implications of their decisions. That's what representatives are for - to do what most people simply don't have the time or interest to do themselves.
No more special interests or investing in companies that don't work.
Well, there would be if people decided that's where they want their money to go to.
I would limit the government's power in the free market
That's achieved by definition really.
It's called spending within your means.
You know why the US government has been spending way above its means? To keep a public which generally likes all sorts of government programs, but doesn't like the burdens (higher taxation etc.) that should come with them, happy. I'm not sure putting the nation's finances into the hands of the very people that tend to demand higher spending but lower taxes will have a good effect.
