...here's part of my platform, in no particular order.
Stop the wars and bring the troops home. I wasn't against the military actions in Iraq or Afghanistan when they started, but it's dragging on and on and we can't afford it. Get the hell out of Libya, too. Stop committing US troops to cleaning up other countries' business. If they want to kill each other, let them - they're going to do it regardless of whether or not we're there, and they hate us more when we try to "help", so let's stay home and spend the efforts on securing our own country. The only foreign aid from our government should be for humanitarian efforts after a natural disaster.
Stop the other war which has been going on for forty years with nothing to show for it. Yep - the war on drugs. Legalize, regulate, tax and enforce, just as we already do with alcohol. Use the tax monies to fund rehab programs for those who really don't want to kill themselves. Those who are bent on self-destruction may proceed with their wishes. (You'da thunk we'd learned from Prohibition that these efforts do not work and only create more crime.)
Keep the government's nose out of the bedrooms of consenting adults. Period.
The concept of "marriage" should be divided into two parts: the legal "civil union"(for any two consenting adults of either or both genders) and the religious "marriage" (for those who want a religiously-based ceremony). You could have a "civil union" without a "marriage", but not the other way around.
Enforce the laws that we already have that make sense, and quit thinking up new laws for Big Nanny.
No more bailouts.
The USA needs to stop kowtowing to every other country. We worry too damn much about what they think. There will be people who hate us no matter what we do, so let's do what's best for us and help others later. You know, like putting on your own oxygen mask first when the plane is going down.
Farm subsidies would be phased out over a ten-year period, with subsidies for ethanol ending right now.
The income tax code would be rewritten to phase in a flat tax over a ten-year period. No more loopholes, writeoffs or convoluted formulas - everybody plays X% of their income and that's that.
Get out of the UN and kick them the hell out of NYC.
Make Congress a part-time job, and enact term limits. (Ditto for the state legislatures that aren't already part-time. PA needs to reform the legislature like yesterday but since the foxes are guarding the henhouse, it'll never happen.)
Spend the tax funds for the military on truly supporting our service people - decent housing, decent pay, counseling programs, etc. - not on overblown expenditures for stuff.
Get the government out of the way of people who are trying to do business, except for the basics of how employees are treated and how the environment is treated.
Go back to the gold standard for currency.
Did I mention keeping the government's nose out of the bedrooms of consenting adults? ;P
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