Hello again and welcome to my post. Thanks for taking the time to visit and again, I welcome any and all questions or comments. I'd like to give a shout out to "Dan" for asking the first question on my blogsite. His question is:
What is your take on the current budget situation, and what are some ideas that you would propose to help eliminate the debt? ie. taxes
A very good question, Dan. And one that seems very difficult to answer if you ask today's politicians. I think they make taxes seem a tough bronco to tame because for them to help out the common hard-working American with the amount of taxes we pay, our government and big business would not be able to take advantage of tax breaks and loopholes that only benefit the fat cats of our country. I also think that our government spends itself into a deficit every year for a couple of reasons that I'll discuss at a later time. To answer your question, however, I fully believe in three things that would help with both the budget and our Federal taxes.
The first is to reduce the amount of money that D.C. spends. This is not done by reducing military costs or by taking away Social Security or Welfare (much more on welfare in the future!), but rather by reducing the amount of items that the Federal government meddles in that could be handled at a State or local community level. We don't need FEMA for disaters that occur in our country. When handled at a federal level, it becomes way too corrupt and the finances go into the black holes (fat cat pockets) while FEMA actually makes the situation worse. This could and should be handled at a State level. This is what we have a National Guard for in each state. The National Guard is not here to go overseas. They are here to protect and help here, in our country. If the States had a plan for emergencies, then they would make their planning specific for the disaters that occur in their state. This could only make response better and the chances of funding slipping through the cracks would be minimized. There are several other programs that could be cut and placed in the hands of the States. I will get into those at a later date however.
The second is to change the way we pay taxes... it is currently set up in an unfair way (no matter who you ask). My biggest complaint is that not everyone pays taxes. We have so many people that either are illegal immigrants (which is what our country was founded by) or people who find the loopholes to pay much less in taxes than they should be required to pay. I would get rid of the entire way we currently pay our Federal taxes and redo them in the following way: A National sales tax. If we were to tax every purchase that is non essential (I don't think things like milk and bread or baby formula should be taxed), then we benefit in the fact that everyone is paying taxes. Illegal immigrants, current taxpayers, and tourists alike will all be paying to help run the country. This also makes it fair in the way that the more money you make, the more you end up spending, so there still will be a scale in place to where the poor end up paying less than the rich when you look at the numbers. I would, of course, have to get some statistical analysts to crunch the numbers and come up with what would be a feasable percentage for the tax, but I can't imagine it would be much with how much spending we do as a nation every year.
Lastly, to help with the deficit, I would create trade tariffs that currently do not exist. This promotes two things. One reason is that it makes money for the Government and therefore would keep the amount that each of us is taxed to a minimum. The other reason is to make American made products more competitive, thereby creating jobs for our country instead of losing jobs to third world countries and such. The reason we don't have enough tariffs in place now is because it benefits big business and we all know that our public servants would rather work for the better of the fat cats who slide them money under the table than to work for those who they were meant to represent.
I hope, Dan, that i have answered your question adequately. If not, just let me know and I'll try to clarify more.
That's enough for now. Please keep the questions coming so we can maybe make a difference in 2012. Thanks, and to everyone, good day.
Rich
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That is a good answer, not only was it informative on the question, but there was no redirect to avoid answering it altogether. Not something ou normally find
Thanks for the kind words, Dan. And you're right, I am trying to be unlike any other candidate out there by giving honest answers. You hear the major candidates saying only what they think the people want to hear, from the correct accent for the area to the actual words (whether it contradicts what they've previously said or not). We, as acountry, have stopped paying attention and are happy if we hear what we want to without investigating. We need to stop that and look deep into the candidates.
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