How id run the USA...
#1 20% flat tax to all residents- that way no one can bitch about "these people pay a lower percentage cause they have more money blah blah"

#2 All states must drug test for State Assistance (I.E. Welfare) and they have to take monthly tests to keep theyre benifits.

#3 Death Row Inmates have a max of 2 year wait to be lethaly injected or if theyre actually smart enough to know they have the right as an American Citizen to ask for a Fireing Squad thats a 6 month wait.

#4 Legalize Pot. For fuck sake its pot damn it.

#5 All Class A drug offenders (pot wont be one anymore) will serve 1 year minimum for posession of an OZ or less. Years go up by amount etc.

#6 All crimes involving rape, molestation, sodomy, etc (stagitory by case since some kids are 18 getting busted for being with a 17 yr old) will be a minimum 25 years with no special treatment like hiding from rest of population.

#7 Murder will automatically by a death sentence none of this housing murderers for 60 years since it costs 40,000 a yr to house someone never getting out anyways.

#8 Military Pay Raise!!! Atleast by 8%. They put theyre life on the line for us daily!!!

#9 Health Care like Europe and Canada. Free!! (there will be harsher guide lines for narcotics to make sure of no misuse.)

#10 Social Security- an amount people can actually live off of.

#11 Money into schools!!

Just some ideas about what id do if they let me run the USA!!

Think about the fact that in 2010 there were 3,260 death row inmates in the US most have been in line for 20 or more years so lets make an example here k...

Say 75% of those in mates have been waiting for 20 years thats 2445 inmates at $47,280 a year roughly at about $129 a day. So lets multiply people 2445 x $47,280 = $115,122,825 a year. Now multiply it by 20= $2,302,456,500. Now if we made it a 2 year max wait that $94,560 for his time we have to pay for lets see how much we saved that would be put back into our country... $2,072,210,850. I wonder if our schools, S.S.D, and Soldiera Could live off that?!

Thanks my piece has been said, if u wanna add what ud do to make our country what its supposed to be go ahead! Id love to hear from people other than the government about what theyd do. Have a great week Ya'll

 

Sorry about bad spelling, I'm on mobile and didn't know I couldn't scroll back up to correct errors. Damn Iphone. Well, hope to hear from Ya'll!!

 

Really agree with #9-10-11.

But your stance toward drug addicts and criminals seem rather harsh. There is a risk that more innocent people get executed with such a short waiting time. And yes. I'm against the whole "state killing its own citizens"-thing anyway.

And by removing social security from drug addicts you would probably cause more problems then it solves. (Not to mention that testing all people on social security each month would cost big $). Then there would be lots of homeless drug users. And that makes for a sadder society, more crime and social disturbance. Why not aim toward removing the incentives for people to start doing drugs whilst at the same attacking the drug supply-chain instead.

Good luck

 

That's an interesting mix of enlightened social justice (#4, 9, 10, 11) and blind faith in the criminal justice system (#3, 5, 6, 7), which has a rather sordid history of imprisoning and executing innocent people.

And I cannot agree, on principle, with the flat tax proposal...although I'll at least agree that 20% is a more reasonable figure than some I've seen tossed around.

 

You would have a free health system, pay your armed services more, put more money into education, more money for social security......and only pay 20% across the board tax.

Then prepare to go broke within 2 years.

 

You're probably right. Although I'm pretty convinced that a universal health care system modeled on those in place in western Europe, would eventually bring health care costs down in the U.S.

 

Theres 1000s of things id have to do to make a budget manage i realize that but key points are all i was shooting for. As for drug charges fuck um if you have the balls to do them deal with the consequences if not dont do them. As for welfare even if they just had to drug test the first time half wouldnt qualify. Food stamps is one thing TANF which is cash to help pay bills is another ive seen girls in my home town try to have another kid to get their third child so they can collect the max TANF amount while not working and living in homes that rate off ur income so their rent is $26 a month and they party and that needs to end. They had every chance i had in my town to go to school, graduate, and get a job, even the welfare place will help u get a job or even ur ged and into college if u are willing to work for it. But why work when they can smoke meth, yell at their kids cause they woke them up before noon, and spend our hard earned money on their narcisism. As for military, im an Army Wife and with BAH at E4 pay its hard to get by with one child. We almost didnt get paid for a couple paychecks, wtf? As for murderers, u get an appeal thats it, i wasnt gunna go all detaild on everything, if its an open shut case
then bye bye looser. One more dirt bag gone why should we have to pay for his meals when theres another option. I believe u murder u deserve death. An eye for an eye.

 

Well.. the ones that did not take that chance are still part of society. And they are here and have to be considered and not punished. There can be lots of reasons for not doing well in school and getting into drugs. The problem is getting them off drugs and preventing more people from ending up on that path.

My belief is that more education on sexual health can solve some of the problems with unwanted teen pregnancies and such. (Perhaps together with a not so judgmental view on abortions). As can help with activities for youngsters that are on a slippery slope down into drug abuse and crime do a big difference . Big efforts tent to pay of rather fast even if only a few teens are saved from that kind of life.

 

Oh. I was addressing the kind of welfare when the county gives poor people money for rent and necessities.

Sorry to hear about your sister. Drugs can really destroy families And it always chocks me that people can hide their drug habits for so long.

I agree with you that 30-day programs are too short a time to get back on track. If one are to put money into helping people then a real program is the only way.

We have the same problem with funding bad habits here in Sweden. The county is not allowed to pay support money as rent to addicts. They have to pay it to the person that is then supposed to pay the rent with it. So that mean rent sometimes is turned into booze. And families are evicted from their apartments... Which lead to more trouble.

 

I have no problem with families needing assistance, but if ur on drugs ull have to earn it by doing more than a non-user (non-user- GED classes if needed, job skills training, and actively try for jobs) Druggies- 120 day parent program (its where u can take ur kids we have a few in oregon, they work well) job skills training, and if during any of this u piss hot u loose it along with ur kids (its oregon law already the state will remove ur child for drug use atleast this way thed have a chance to go to a program with them first) til u deal with that whole system again, they can help hire with hireing agencies, most jobs require random piss tests so thats taken care of then the have a job and wont need the assistance.

 

You can't tax the poor because they have almost nothing to begin with.

 

Things will never change. The corporations now have total control and it is going to get worse not better.

Things that would be done if that were not the case:

1.Remove the social security and medicare cap of $?106,000. You should pay into social security for ALL the income. Just that alone will bring enough money forever (if congress doesn't steal it for something else) to give the people on SS an actual REAL cost of living increase.

2.There are people on social security who have never paid into it. I personally am not in favor of some child of someone who died getting social security payments until they are 18. The ones I actually know of either live it up on it, or their other parent and step parents get it and use it for booze, cigarettes and here, gambling.

3. STOP giving our money away to other countries. Iraq was supposed to pay for the war according to good ol' GW, instead we have given them billions much of which unaccounted for.

4. Go into N. Pakistan and wipe Al Queda and the Taliban out completely.
Then declare that any one that makes any attack on the US is going to permanently removed as a power. (OH that's genocide? you can only win a war by eliminating the other side, or for civilized countries a peace treaty - but AQ and the Taliban are neither civilized nor worthy of being left alive.

5. Remove ALL foreign aid including Pakistan. Make a stronger alliance with India and sanitize it of Islam militants. I am sure we are quite capable of taking out their nukes.

6. Put heavy import duties on everything shipped into this country. Enough to change the balance of trade. That alone should be an incentive to restore manufacturing to the US and thus create jobs.

7. Eliminate the Federal Reserve. The government should be able to operate without either borrowing money or continually printing more. Remember Germany after WWI.

8. Default on all US debts--OH, we cant under the constitution.

9. Warren Buffet has the right idea too; higher incomes higher tax rates,
maybe the 50% needs to go back into effect for any incomes over $250,000. Remove the loopholes. Maybe remove all deductions and make flat graduated rates on gross income.

10. The Federal Reserve is a privately owned corporation that has not paid any income tax since 1913. They should be assessed full back taxes at a high rate from that date. That alone would make a huge dent in the national debt.

11. Elect Empress Lainie President on the Independent ticket.

 

May I add something? Of course I can because I am me and you cant stop me...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

All elected positions...local, county, state and federal each has a trained chimpanzee. These chimps wander around and will grasp a person at random in public by the hand and smile. The person chosen is now candidate number one for the position that the individual chimp is assigned to. This continues until each position has two candidates chosen by the chimpanzees. Regardless of age or background the individual is obligated to run for the office in question. No one...NO ONE is exempt and if chosen by the chimp you are it...period. The voters then choose between the two candidates for each position and the candidate is obligated to serve one term. Simple.

Sure, your going to occasionaly have a hypocodriac, bipolar, meth addict with a lengthy criminal record and a speach impediment elected to congress but we would be no worse off than we are now. Once in a while we might get a nine year old president, or a city council member who cant spell his or her own name but it wont ultimately hurt any worse than befor. In the end we would get a government that truly is of the people, for the people and by the people. Besides that the entertainment value of an election season would be priceless.

 

Love the Presedential Jury Duty Idea!!! Thats killer!!!

 

I like what u had to say and i agree with takin out the bad guys and getting us out of there now!

 

You're not serious until you get your pencil and paper out and actually budget this plan. You will find you are making promises you can't keep.

 

awsome, but i would put a lot more money into sports and public places that 24 hrs that kids can play sports. i truly beleive that it is the key to keeping youth out of trouble and there minds focused.

 

If I were fucking President...

Clinton: I wouldn't launder at least one dress, and collect cigars

Bush Jnr: I'd invest in a few easy-readers to get him started on the road to self-education

Obama: I would get myself employed as driver of his presidential bus *that thing would be fucking AWESOME to drive*, by using my feminine wiles

 

What I'd really like to know....is where do (mostly) Americans, get the idea that health care in Europe is free????
Newsflash: It ain't free....people pay a tax on their income to receive those "free" benefits....