3|Capital punishment should be abolished.|I don't want Newt deciding who lives and who dies.|barfly.wired.com 6|There should be a guaranteed minimum national income.|Abolish minimum wage laws. End Social Security and welfare. Quit trying to tell people how to live. This is the richest country on the planet - let's start acting like it. It's what you want for Christmas, why should you be so special? Just give people money. Period. Let them spend it however they want to, and then bear the consequences.|shlan2.wired.com 7|Martha Stewart is corrupting our mothers and should be regulated severly.|Well, am I wrong?|quartz.dbtinc.com 9|All drug use by adults should be legal.|This includes tobacco, thankyouverymuch. The FDA should simply be preventing unwarranted claims of medicinal benefit on the part of manufacturers. If people want to huff spray paint, jeez, let them.|barfly.wired.com 13|Any official program depending on categorizing citizens into races should be abolished or altered.|Note the difference between this and simply saying "Affirmative action should be abolished". What if, instead of slicing up a college's student body by race, you broke it down by family income? And then had exactly the same sorts of programs you have now to correct underrepresentation by lower-income groups (presuming there was such)? Or used geographic regions? All of that would be fine with me. I am just suggesting that having 5 Official US Races, by gosh, is... well it's wrong. For a better statement of why, check out The Next American Nation by Michael Lind.|barfly.wired.com 14|People should be given a "common-sense" test. If they fail, they are summarily retroactively aborted.|This decreases the morons in our society.|jormungandr 15|No Taxes for the rich.|Some may call this unfair that only "middle class taxpayers" should carry the burden of paying for the government. But there are some good arguments for this. #1 - "Middle class taxpayers" already pay 80% of government expenses. #2 Studies show that "the rich" pay very little taxes anyway - and in fact are the major beneficiary of government programs like "defense contracts", "farm subsidies", "HUD building programs" and "savings and loan bailouts". Besides this the rich are the most difficult to collect from anyway - many do not even file or hire expensive lawyers to write special bills for them exempting them from taxes - the paper savings alone from not having to print these special bills may result in a net savings for the government. #3 Studies have shown that the middle class are the major environmental problem, consuming the majority of consumer products and creating the largest share of pollution. It has been said that increasing taxes on this group can have a 30% effect on the ozone layer alone.

  • From The Platform Project |rich 16|1. strict enviro 2. strict anti-trust laws 3. strict non-violence 4. whatever else mr. lee's new hong kong stood for. (snowcrash)|remove the church from the state.|169-182-239.ipt.aol.com 17| The Federal Gravity Tax - Tax people according to how much they weigh. | This idea is a simple way to balance the budget and help improve the general health of our great nation. The basic principle is this: A tax shall be levied on every American according to how much gravity he or she is using up. In other words, a per-pound tax on obesity. The revenues generated by this tax could erase the national debt in no time. If you have any doubts about this, go take a walk around the block. How many really overweight people did you see? I thought so. I mean, heck, the revenue from Rush Limbaugh alone could buy a Stealth bomber. The beneficial side effect of this proposal is that it could actually help Americans get in shape. Overweight people won't just be "going on diets," they'll be "getting into a lower tax bracket." What better incentive to convince people to lose weight and live healthier lives? Just look at all the people who've already endorsed the Gravity Tax: •"I think the Gravity Tax is a great idea. After all, we are the only nation in the world where all our poor people are fat." -- Phil Gramm, Senator •"I love the idea, cause I'm so skinny that the government would actually be paying me to put on weight." -- Kate Moss, Model •"Gravity Tax, sure. I like it. Say, are you gonna eat those fries?"Bill Clinton, President So don't forget to write your Congressman and Senators and tell them to support the Gravity Tax. It's the right thing to do, and a tasty way to do it. |208.206.114.56 19|Lawyers should not be allowed to hold elective office. |Lawyers are amoral by definition. Do we really want amoral people to:

    make our laws, NO.

    Administer them? yes.

    Judge them - yes.

    Enforce them - yes |ppp34-tr.exit109.com 21|Only adult females should be allowed to carry guns in this country|A reactionary solution to the growing problem of domestic violence would be to disarm disgruntled husbands and boyfriends and to provide guns and ammo to their female victims instead.|kneehigh.mpd.tandem.com 22|Hunters should be forced to wear "antlers" during hunting season|Maybe wearing a pair of antlers will "even the odds" for cute, little baby deer during hunting season.|kneehigh.mpd.tandem.com 23|Multi-party polotics should be abolished!|For as many years as there has been an America, people have voted for poloticians based more by there polital party than what they've said, what there track record or credentials may be. Wouldn't it be a hoot to see some of these people try to get elected without the power of a national party behind them...|starmaster@earthlink.net 24|Lesser penalties for speeding, harsher penalties for reckless driving. ||inet001c02-22.inet.net 25|Begin substituting resource-consumption taxes (e.g. pollution taxes) for income taxes.|Right now it makes utter sense for me to make a plastic garbage bag that costs 0.005 cents to produce, even if that bag won't degrade for 100 years and so has to go into a city-financed landfill or some such. All costs associated with the product after purchase are borne by someone else, not the manufacturer. So naturally manufacturers cut production costs as much as they can, no matter what that might do to lifetime disposal/cleanup/etc. costs. Trying to solve this by legislating morality (no! bad bad!) is not only dumb but inefficient. If manufacturers had to pay for the recovery/disposal of their products - in any fashion - you'd see the costs of that disposal go down, probably by a reduction in what there was to dispose of - AND there'd be money to cover inescapable disposal costs. Of course, manufacturers paying == customers paying. The people that make the garbage pay to clean it up. Whatever you tax, you get less of, nu? Income is good. Efficient resource use is good. Don't tax them. INefficient resource use is not so good. Tax that instead. (This plank shamelessly stolen from The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken)|barfly.wired.com 26|The government has no place in your body, your mind, and your wallet. |It should be clear to the conservatives that the same government which is unqualified to handle other people's money, is unqualified to decide which bad thoughts are unthinkable. It should be clear to the liberals that the same government that is not competent to protect "choice" is not competent to judge the right racial or sexual qualifications for employment. Instead of banging your head against the wall of the status quo, try an an alternative path. |ppp-10.ts-4.dc.idt.net