Five policies that could change America for the better

[donttread]

1) Term limits
2) A hard limit on the length of a single bill. Say 50 pages single spaced one side. To stop pork.
3) Lower corporate income taxes and congressional/business meetings to bring manufacturing back.
4) End prohibition or at least decriminalize. The drug war has failed from day one. I used to support it, except for the pot ban. But i was wrong. If neither of those we still need to try something different than known abject failure.
5) Campaign spending limits. IMO, money is NOT speech. Speech is speech.

Thoughts? Also, what would you add to or change on the list? I'm looking for simple things with huge potential impact that would simplify and maybe even unite a little. For example, term limits would draw majority support as might the proposal for limits on the size of bills. Yet despite that they don't happen.

[Peter1469]

Constitutional carry nationwide.

Put criminals in jail.

[RMNIXON]

The problem is not so much the length of the Bill. It is the unrelated riders that get passed along with it that need to be stopped. Perhaps we need a clean Bill Act in Congress, but both sides love to abuse this unfortunately.

I am also taking a second look at term limits. I use to think if you like your Representative or Senator why not keep them in Congress? But now you have party hacks that get re-elected no matter what and they hang on until near death.

[carolina73]

Flat tax or NST style. No deductions. No credits.
Then you end much of the subsidies and influence selling.

Then cancel 2/3rds of the non-Military Federal Government.
Return the responsibilities to the states where they will have to expand but will be far more efficient.


The Founding Fathers had it right. The idiots that followed them had it wrong.

[Section31]

Stop corruption and hold EVERY politician responsible for wrongdoing. NO EXCEPTIONS!

[donttread]

The problem is not so much the length of the Bill. It is the unrelated riders that get passed along with it that need to be stopped. Perhaps we need a clean Bill Act in Congress, but both sides love to abuse this unfortunately.

I am also taking a second look at term limits. I use to think if you like your Representative or Senator why not keep them in Congress? But now you have party hacks that get re-elected no matter what and they hang on until near death.

I had that conversation with my son (this was his idea)about why not just restrict the bill to one topic. He said too much drift, they'll do an end run on it every time. That's why he thought page limits.
One way or another it has to be fixed. 1,000 page bills written by the industry being regulated (well by the big players in the industry seeking to become the only players)? Or an entire federal budget as one piece of legislation?
Who does that benefit? Not the people

[donttread]

Flat tax or NST style. No deductions. No credits.
Then you end much of the subsidies and influence selling.

Then cancel 2/3rds of the non-Military Federal Government.
Return the responsibilities to the states where they will have to expand but will be far more efficient.


The Founding Fathers had it right. The idiots that followed them had it wrong.

I agree with most of that (not cancelling my SS and Medicare though) not my fault those $#@!s mismanaged the fund and then got raises as for doing so. But I was thinking we can walk first and run later. We have to de-corrupt congress somehow. I am also ok with a graduated tax system. The people that buy the influence congress sells do so to have unfair advantage. But I could not agree more with the end of deductions and credits. Who other than government would print 100 pages of rules (if that) followed by thousands of pages of exceptions.

[The Booman]

Balanced budget.

[donttread]

Stop corruption and hold EVERY politician responsible for wrongdoing. NO EXCEPTIONS!

That would be great but what are the first steps to get there?

[carolina73]

I had that conversation with my son (this was his idea)about why not just restrict the bill to one topic. He said too much drift, they'll do an end run on it every time. That's why he thought page limits.
One way or another it has to be fixed. 1,000 page bills written by the industry being regulated (well by the big players in the industry seeking to become the only players)? Or an entire federal budget as one piece of legislation?
Who does that benefit? Not the people

I think that would just result in poorly written bills with even more unintended consequences.

I can see the next bill. Font size 1. The simple wording of we will do whatever we want because no one is going to read this anyways.