Solutions

[realFedUp]

Ok, howabout some Sunday morning, in my pjs, solutions to
our problems:

Make an electric/solar topped car that is really cheap to buy and use.
Make it with indestructable bumpers, like bumper cars.

Get our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving just those
to guard the embassy(ies). No more money for NGO's.

Roll back the Reagan and Bush tax cuts on the richest 20%.

Open Medicare up to everyone under 65 to buy in at an affordable price.

Rebuild dying cities with monorail systems and liveable areas with
retail/housing/community together for all ages. Use local workers.

Build water towers with solar and wind attached.

More community gardens and co-ops/rentals for equipment/tools etc., plant exchanges

Ok, what are your ideas?

[endless october]

1. i'm glad you posted this.

my ideas :

end the wars. immediately or within a one year time span.

energy independence is moved to priority number one. massive FDR-style energy infrastructure building project begins.

interventionism ends.

the drug war ends piece by piece. marijuana first. a reasonable tax on it helps to fund single payer.

i would support a one percent national sales tax. i would also support language in the legislation that prevents it from ever being increased.

39 percent for the top income rate is not unreasonable.

and, though i'm sure it will be an unpopular idea, i would lower the corporate tax rate to undercut Europe. along with this, i would tariff the shit out of corporations that choose to outsource manufacturing.

we need jobs, energy independence, and health care. we should be devoting our resources to achieving those goals.

[anonymous171]

2. Basically this (adjusted for inflation of course):

1. No person would be allowed to accumulate a personal net worth of more than 100 to 300 times the average family fortune, which would limit personal assets to between $1.5 million and $5 million. Income taxes would be levied to ensure this. Annual capital levy taxes would be assessed on all persons with a net worth exceeding $1 million.

2. Every family was to be furnished with a homestead allowance of not less than one-third the average family wealth of the country. Every family was to be guaranteed an annual family income of at least $2,000 to $2,500, or not less than one-third of the average annual family income in the United States. Yearly income, however, cannot exceed more than 100 to 300 times the size of the average family income.

3. An old-age pension would be made available for all persons over 60.

4. To balance agricultural production, the government will preserve/store surplus. This is made so no food is wasted.

5. Veterans are paid what they are owed

6.Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions for training in the professions and vocations of life.

7. The raising of revenue and taxes for the support of this program was to come from the reduction of swollen fortunes from the top, as well as for the support of public works to give employment whenever there may be any slackening necessary in private enterprise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_Our_Wealth#Major_provisions_of_.22Share_Our_Wealth.22

[LWolf]

3. I have lots of ideas.

The first three or four or more:

Universal, single-payer, not-for-profit health care.

Fully fund and support public education; put an end to privatizing, union-busting, scapegoating, and high-stakes testing.

Acknowledge that the "war on terror" is, not just a "dumb" war, but an unconscionable and idiotic war, and end it NOW.

Invest in a public works program to provide local jobs for all who need them.

Repeal NAFTA/CAFTA.

Re-regulate what has been de-regulated since the Reagan era.

Stronger, and well-enforced, anti-trust laws.

A new, updated fairness doctrine, or some other method of regulating public media to keep them neutral.

Make the separation of church and state a much deeper, wider canyon than the little ornamental feature it is today.

[Greyhound]

4. Second Bill of Rights.

Break up the conglomerates, all of them. Communications, defense, financial, insurance, etc.

Take a generation to concentrate on re-inventing America at home with people first.