Sinergy
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Hello A/all, If I were president, I would... Flat tax, something around 15%-20%, for everybody and everything. Corporate, individual, businesses, etc. No allowances, no deductions. Pay your 20%, and go on about your day. Anybody ever convicted and imprisoned for a victimless crime would be released from jail immediately and set up in a program similar to the witness protection program until they got back on their feet. I would make universal health care. Screw Pharma and Big Medical sacrificing the health and well-being of people for their profit margins. I would make "Big Giant Things" (like Al Franken proposed) with Government money all over the place. Hire people to build these Big Giant Things. Make them interesting for people to use tourist money to travel to look at the Big Giant Thing, thus recycling money back into the economy. I would restructure the country's "citizenship" rules to be similar to those proposed by Robert Heinlein in Starship Troopers. You want to vote, you have to prove that you put the Body Politic ahead of your own personal stake. I would make military service one way of doing this, missionary work, Peace Corp, volunteer medical service, whatever. Finish your two years, you are allowed to vote in this country. Without being a citizen, you are forever removed from the possibility of ever holding public office. This two years of service can happen at any time in the individuals life. I would make citizenship in this country for people who wanted to immigrate here be contingent upon them providing their 2 years of service up front. People born here get a conditional passport stating they were born here and can stay and work, people not born here get sent home. There is probably more, but that will do for now. Sinergy
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