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Posted on 06/10/2002 10:45:40 AM PDT by Asmodeus
To start the ball rolling:
1. Allow politicans running for office to promise whatever they think will help get them elected but require that if elected or re-elected any vote contrary to their campaign promises constitute their automatic resignation effective immediately and permanently.
Examples: Campaign promises not to vote to raise taxes, not to vote for gun control laws, not to vote for any restrictions of freedom of speech or other civil liberties, not to vote for _________________.
2. Make it a felony with forfeiture of all pay and benefits otherwise due, for all government employees, past or present, from the President to the janitors, from the Mayor to the street sweepers, to ever refer to their "years of public service".
or...
2) For every dollar paid in taxes you get a vote.
Shouldn't this be a vanity?
2. You must cite the Constitutional authority that authorizes the fed jurisdiction. Yeah, I know they mumble the "commerce clause" but it will be a start.
3. No last minute attachments or riders of any kind. You want something else, write a new bill!
They tried this. Never made it out of committee. You think these people are actually going to vote for and implement changes that LIMIT what they can do?
also reduce federal revenues by 10% per year for ten years
require balanced budged short of declared war
term limits on congress
sell off gov't owned land
establish 5%investment fund with gov't as benificiary. In due time it will be enough to run the govt without any (or very reduced) taxes.
2. Make in-kind contributions by labor unions (access to phone banks, employee time) countable against the hard money limits.
3. Use the IRS to go after churches and "non-profits" that are political fronts. Shut down their tax exempt status. Do not exclude black churches from this policy just for pc reasons.
4. De-ghettoize our recent immigrant communities. Eg. Shut down all bilingual education. English only for things like driver's tests, citizenship tests.
5. Start teaching real civics in elementary, middle and high school.
6. Fire all public school teachers and administrators and start over again. No-one gets rehired who has taught environmental or political extremism. Aggressive nationwide voucher program.
7. Reduce all non-defense spending by the feds by 25% per year until it is 25% of its current level.
2. Any judge who issues 3 decisions which are eventually overturned as unconstitutional based upon #1 shall be defrocked.
Basically, the writer suggested a "3 Strike Rule" for politicians. Any politician who votes for legislation that is later determined to be unconstitutional will get a 'strike'. After 3 strikes, they are booted from office and are ineligible to ever run for elected office again.
The strikes would be cumulative for their entire 'career' and from any elected office they hold. If they get a strike while in the state legislature it stays with them if they move to the US House or Senate. If a house member gets elected to the Senate, their strikes from the House carry over.
Of course, getting them to pass such a law is about as likely as the federal budget actually being smaller next year than it is this year.
Make citizenship based on parents, not location. If either parent is a citizen, so are you. If neither is, neither are you.
Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment.
Make a stab at repealing the Sixteenth.
--Boris
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