[cyberdoll]

1. Everyone pays a flat rate income tax of 10%.
2. Eliminate the IRS and welfare. The govt is not your family and therefore you will no longer be given an allowance.
3. The govt will no longer enable criminals. Your family will be required to pay a small monthly rent fee for your time in prison. If found guilty of a crime, you will work off your sentence. Jails will become free govt labor for things such as making license plates, farming communities, working at recycling centers sorting trash, and building a large wall between Texas/NM and Mexico. You will be required to get your GED in order to leave the prison system. No internet access or cable TV and A/C only if the weather gets above 90. Prison is a punishment and will be treated as such.
4. INternational funding will cease immediately.
5. Only countries which respect the USA will be treated friendly by us.
6. Marriage is to be respected. No-fault divorce elimated.
7. Education will consist of American History, Math, Science, English Composition and Physical Education. Your children will pass a national test every four years in order to advance. The govt will pay for these teachers and classes. if you want the extras, they will be paid for locally.
8. English will be our national language. Learn it. Speak it.
9. Illegal immigrants will be deported immediately, at the cost of your government. II's will not be entitled to our education system, nor will they be given jobs, unless every single American is employed and we need to fill a vacancy.
10. At the current time, all international people boarding planes will be searched. If you aren't gulty of anything, you shouldn't mind the inconvenience. if you feel you are being discriminated against, take it up with your fellow Arabs who set the bad example for you. It's their fault really, not ours.
11. Any act of terrorism intended to kill our citizens will be considered an act against your country. Our Air Force will return you back to your country via a free plane ride and our Army will return the favor.
12. Speaking of our military, they are paid to protect our country, not yours, so they will not be visiting 3rd world countries to protect your citizens. You need help, fund your own military. We have troubles of our own for them to worry about.
13. Groups which encourage anti-Americanism will be treated as terrorist organizations. this includes the ACLU, Greenpeace and others.

[tigerkat]

Two thumbs up from me. I like how you don't elminate the fact that other subjects might be taught in school, you allow the communites to chose if they want them taught or not, a very good solution.

All in all a really sound platform

[Liz]

Fantastic platform!!! Too lenient on the air-conditioning though.

[TinaDee]

My Queen. I do agree with Liz about the AC.

I would however add world history to the mix. We need to know the enemy.

[Taliesin]

Except for nearly every part of #3, I'd be quite happy to vote for ya!

[conceal-carry]

I particularly like #3. What is wrong with #3?

[Taliesin]

conceal-carry, on Mar 9 2004, 10:47 PM, said:

I particularly like #3. What is wrong with #3?

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3. The govt will no longer enable criminals. Your family will be required to pay a small monthly rent fee for your time in prison. If found guilty of a crime, you will work off your sentence. Jails will become free govt labor for things such as making license plates, farming communities, working at recycling centers sorting trash, and building a large wall between Texas/NM and Mexico. You will be required to get your GED in order to leave the prison system. No internet access or cable TV and A/C only if the weather gets above 90. Prison is a punishment and will be treated as such.

1) Why should I have to pay because my uncle's uncle did something bad? You'd have to throw out portions of the constitution to justify punishing people for committing crimes others committed.

2) Free gov't labor = slavery. I don't mind that particularily. As it is, most prisons have their inmates working. However, they do it to build furniture for the prison system, to repair the prison they're in, and other similar jobs. Its a bit socialistic for the government to use their free labor to do jobs they should be paying normal healthy people to do. Would you like to lose your job because recidivism rates are up and the government would rather have it done for free instead of paying. Too big of an economic hit.

3) I'd rather have the wall built by trained contractors. I want it done by people who know what they're doing.

4) As for the internet/cable/AC, they're there for a somewhat good reason. While I work in law enforcement and believe that prison should be harsh, that these peope should suffer a little, and that they're not there for a good time, I'm also a tax payer (and a poor one at that). These things aren't installed to make time easier on the inmate, just like schooling isn't there to better them (except for the GED program which I agree should be mandatory). They're there because its cheaper to pay a cable bill, run an internet server, and run an AC unit (and although it wasn't mentioned, pay a college professor $40,000/year) than it is to hire 15+ corrections officers at $25,000/yr hourly. They're used to keep the inmates too busy to cause trouble.

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In my view, I'd be happy with gun towers comming back. If an inmate causes trouble, kill 'em. Pay them a moderate rate of money for the work they do (half of minimum wage), putting the money in an account for them to use when they leave. This'll give them something to start up with when they leave, helping to lessen their recidivism rate. While they'd be required (instead of encouraged) to work towards making prisons self sufficient, train them. Certify them in welding or metal working or whatever skilled trade they need to do to do their work. They then have the skills for some jobs once they leave, but fall short of a college degree that would cost you or I $50,000.

[conceal-carry]

Free labor = slavery. Let's talk to this point. It does. But, if you have committed a crime, you owe a debt to society. Therefore, it is not free labor. It is you paying off your debt.

Keeping inmates too busy to cause trouble. See my point above. They owe a debt to society. They can work and stay busy.

The other option is to hang all prisoners who are there for life anyway so the prisons will be less full. Ropes are reusable.

[Taliesin]

conceal-carry, on Mar 10 2004, 09:11 PM, said:

Free labor = slavery. Let's talk to this point. It does. But, if you have committed a crime, you owe a debt to society. Therefore, it is not free labor. It is you paying off your debt.

Keeping inmates too busy to cause trouble. See my point above. They owe a debt to society. They can work and stay busy.

The other option is to hang all prisoners who are there for life anyway so the prisons will be less full. Ropes are reusable.

Unfortunately, short of constant beatings or torture, you can't force them to work.

As for hangin's, that's a bit extreme. But then, I think capital punishment should be resrved for crimes that desrve it, not just for everyone who's in prison for life.

[conceal-carry]

I think life imprisonment should be reserved for those who have committed such heinous crimes we never want them to be in society again. In my eyes, the death penalty and life sentence group are the same. Hence the rope statement.

[cyberdoll]

AFter careful consideration, I have decided to stay with my platform regarding prisoners. They chose to commit the crimes, so they can live as the government sees fit. They made the choice. If they don't like it, they can lead a better life after their release.

[bbw61]

You got my vote already!

[Tuschy]

I personally think that prisons SHOULD be miserable places to serve time. Maybe if it was less appealing to criminals to live there on my tax dollars, fewer would be so willing to make choices that put them there. There would be a two-fold reward - less crime and less of OUR money spent on prisons.

As for the death penalty, I personally believe that "the worse the punishment, the stronger the deterrent" If people are not deterred, at lease we could save a lot of OUR money by cheaply getting rid of people who can't be deterred from commenting crimes, instead of keeping them locked up forever at $80,000 a year or whatever it costs these days.

My grandpa and I have an idea for a cheap and terrible form of capitol punishment that would almost certainly be a great deterrent. We would have to first take care of the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

THE BLIND FIRING SQUAD

6 legally blind gunmen (who have been pointed in the right direction) shooting 22 cal. bullets from 50 yards away. It could take all day, but the bullets could be purchased in bulk for about $.01 a piece. Maybe violent criminals would reluctantly decide to obey the law after they think about sweating against a fence for hours waiting for a killing shot.


You have a great platform!

[American Avenger]

i agree with calling the ACLU a terrorist group, there nothing but child molsetor supporters and liberal A$% holes that hate America and want to transform us into a socialist country