.INTUITIVE EMPATHY AND SYMPATHY FOR GOD (City on a Hill): How best to cooperate as an eco-holism in order to pursue the best among alternatively competing visions for ecosystems?
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UPPER DESPOTS: Those who presume to know best
MIDDLE COMPETENTS: Those who mainly wish to be responsible for their own care and freedom of expression and enterprise
LOWER INCOMPETENTS: Those envious to be taken care of
MIDDLE COMPETENTS: Those who mainly wish to be responsible for their own care and freedom of expression and enterprise
LOWER INCOMPETENTS: Those envious to be taken care of
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CITIZEN COMMITTEES:
Pressure Representatives to explore and report back regarding below listed current concerns; require explanations in detail for how or why each proposal will or will not be undertaken.
Pressure Representatives to explore and report back regarding below listed current concerns; require explanations in detail for how or why each proposal will or will not be undertaken.
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NATIONAL INTEGRITY:
Enforce borders.
Verify identification of voters.
Enforce borders.
Verify identification of voters.
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GOVERNMENTAL CENTRALIZATION:
Make political candidates subject to recall, while providing for means to appoint a line of successors to finish each term.
Do not provide pensions paid for by taxpayers.
Vastly reduce staffs and lobbying.
Limit salaries for federal employees to be no more than three times the income of the average household.
Forbid financial investments by political representatives and policy makers except in blind trusts.
Shutter federal departments concerning commerce and education.
Make political candidates subject to recall, while providing for means to appoint a line of successors to finish each term.
Do not provide pensions paid for by taxpayers.
Vastly reduce staffs and lobbying.
Limit salaries for federal employees to be no more than three times the income of the average household.
Forbid financial investments by political representatives and policy makers except in blind trusts.
Shutter federal departments concerning commerce and education.
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HEALTH:
Maintain criminal penalties for unauthorized drug pushers while decriminalizing drug users, but provide for mandatory court supervised rehabilitation upon each third arrest for public intoxication. Require proof only by a preponderance of the evidence in order to authorize such mandated rehabilitation.
Phase out requirements for employers to provide health insurance by decoupling health insurance from employment; require that all health insurance policies be made portable to individuals.
Have government provide very basic, single-payer health care and do not allow public providers to seek reimbursement from persons who have their own insurance.
Maintain criminal penalties for unauthorized drug pushers while decriminalizing drug users, but provide for mandatory court supervised rehabilitation upon each third arrest for public intoxication. Require proof only by a preponderance of the evidence in order to authorize such mandated rehabilitation.
Phase out requirements for employers to provide health insurance by decoupling health insurance from employment; require that all health insurance policies be made portable to individuals.
Have government provide very basic, single-payer health care and do not allow public providers to seek reimbursement from persons who have their own insurance.
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TAXES:
Use rational taxes to incentive the establishment and sustenance of a society that defends and pursues decency, liberty, and opportunity.
Tax durable imports at same rate as same would be taxed by the exporting country if America had exported same to it, do not tax not durable exports.
Do tax financial out-goes, do not tax financial in-comes.
End farm price supports.
Phase to replace income tax with progressive tax on household consumption.
Establish a national progressive consumption tax on households.
Do not tax corporate profits or work salaries.
Do not tax corporations on income, wages, salaries, or consumption, except do tax corporations on certain financial consumptions that are not directly related to durable production, such as costs entailed with non-internet advertising and political lobbying. Do not tax internet-informational services.
Diminish property taxes on charities..
Use rational taxes to incentive the establishment and sustenance of a society that defends and pursues decency, liberty, and opportunity.
Tax durable imports at same rate as same would be taxed by the exporting country if America had exported same to it, do not tax not durable exports.
Do tax financial out-goes, do not tax financial in-comes.
End farm price supports.
Phase to replace income tax with progressive tax on household consumption.
Establish a national progressive consumption tax on households.
Do not tax corporate profits or work salaries.
Do not tax corporations on income, wages, salaries, or consumption, except do tax corporations on certain financial consumptions that are not directly related to durable production, such as costs entailed with non-internet advertising and political lobbying. Do not tax internet-informational services.
Diminish property taxes on charities..
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Without good reason, do not extend protection for intellectual property, copyrights, and patents beyond 5 years, and then only if marketed within 5 years.
Discourage international corporations from buying patents solely to hold hostage the improvement of common infrastructure.
Without good reason, do not extend protection for intellectual property, copyrights, and patents beyond 5 years, and then only if marketed within 5 years.
Discourage international corporations from buying patents solely to hold hostage the improvement of common infrastructure.
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FAMILY:
Redefine status of “married filing jointly” to pertain only to joint filing under a cohabitation with a member of the opposite sex.
Moderate tax incentives to have children, to allow a tax credit of $1000 for each child, but only up to3 and no more.
Redefine status of “married filing jointly” to pertain only to joint filing under a cohabitation with a member of the opposite sex.
Moderate tax incentives to have children, to allow a tax credit of $1000 for each child, but only up to3 and no more.
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RELIGION:
Do not impede institutions that evangelize regarding an empathetic, loving God.
Redefine Islam as exhorted under the Koran as a terrorist conspiracy and authorize schools to teach that it is such.
Do not impede institutions that evangelize regarding an empathetic, loving God.
Redefine Islam as exhorted under the Koran as a terrorist conspiracy and authorize schools to teach that it is such.
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WELFARE:
Keep welfare low enough to discourage it as a chosen lifestyle.
PROBLEMS:
How to define a market for rewarding merit once cronies monopolize machines.
Genetic drag vs. Great society.
What should be the responsibility of government once regulations have distributed and licensed all the land, property, franchises, patents, and ways of making a living, so that is becomes unlikely that even those with gumption will find gainful employment? At that point, will the ecosystem have so changed that decent morality should prompt government to find ways to redistribute income, even if by hiring people to dig and refill holes, do unskilled work on large scale infrastructure, beautify parks, help children and elders learn to enjoy pastimes and games, help rehabilitate and supervise committed addicts, or volunteer in zones of disaster or impoverishment?
FACTORS: Size of prison population; numbers of out of work youth; need to preserve incentives for those who are capable of doing better; relative smaller cost in availing respectful work versus paying welfare to empower continuations of slothful addictions.
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5 comments:
Relativistic morality that is not related to any thing or any pursuit reduces to noise that self annihilates into nothingness. To grasp meaningfulness, one must relate one's moral notions to an overarching pursuit that is evident to oneself (self evident). I suspect there is only one such pursuit that can be adduced: That we should pursue not sympathy for the devil, but intuitive empathy for God (as for a City on a Hill). Each individual, as an eco-holism, should seek to cooperate in pursuing interpretations of the best among alternatively competing visions for ecosystems. Translation for America: We should seek to establish and preserve a decent society that has high regard for individual liberty and opportunity. Otherwise, without some such overarching national mission statement, we will become as leaves blowing in the wind. Or noisy Chomskyites, urging people to guide themselves by no guide. Or Ahmadinejad, seeking to depart earth in a blaze while reducing as many people as possible to muttering zombies or cinders. Or leaves dropping into anarchic meaninglessness while begging others to follow.
In a sane society that was not owned and operated by cronies of amorality, Obama would never have been elected. Has the demographic changed?
Yes, water will find its own level, but you can still filter and separate the potable from the corrupt. The idea that we cannot compete internationally unless we allow our resources and wealth to be sold without hindrance to some imaginary marketplace that in fact is contorted through and through by cronies is nationally suicidal nonsense. If the cost of exporting a needed domestic product goes up, then more of that product would be purchased domestically. There would still be a demand for refineries. If not, domestic prices would increase until there were. The more serious problem pertains to direct domestic regulatory intrusions by government. You can't reasonably argue about ceteris paribus only to support one side of an issue. The overarching issue pertains to how much of America must be sacrificed in order to preserve economists' purity of thought with regard to the need to sell ourselves and our resources out to despotisms. It's an argument to justify reducing a city on a hill to a borderless NWO, to fall in its mores and independence to become just another lowest common denominator under the boot of international cronies. What drives the common lemming view among economists that we should have no national policy that would impede the surrender of the world market to international cronies? Is it habit of thought, cargo cult science, some aspect of conditioned and rewarded self interest, or all of the above? To ask an economist to think beyond the oxymoron of "free markets with despots" is like asking a fundamentalist to think beyond original sin.
You're right. Water will find its own level, and you can filter and separate the potable from the corrupt. The idea that we cannot compete internationally unless we allow our resources and wealth to be sold without hindrance to some imaginary marketplace that in fact is contorted through and through by cronies is nationally suicidal nonsense. If the cost of exporting a needed domestic product goes up, then more of that product would be purchased domestically. There would still be a demand for refineries. If not, given export and import taxes on oil for foreign markets, domestic prices would increase until there were. The more serious problem pertains to direct domestic regulatory intrusions by government. It makes little sense to argue about ceteris paribus only to support one side of an issue. The overarching issue pertains to how much of America must be sacrificed in order to preserve economists' purity of thought with regard to the need to sell ourselves and our resources out to despotisms. It's an argument to justify reducing a city on a hill to a borderless NWO, to fall in its mores and independence to become just another lowest common denominator under the boot of international cronies.
The international oil trade is rife with cartel and crony gamesters. To say that a nation, in order to save the market, must yield it to cronies who usurp the market, somehow seems not quite sane. It's to say that the people at large, through their representatives, have no right to counter depredations of cronies. This becomes repugnant when the cronies are in bed with regimes that want to reduce us to 7th century international despotism.
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