Todd-'o'-Vision
Super xVirgin Man
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2002
- Posts
- 5,609
Party 1
I believe that the proper function of government is to do for the people those things that have to be done but cannot be done, or cannot be done as well by individuals, and that the most effective government is government closest to the people.
I believe that good government is based on the individual and that each person's ability, dignity, freedom and responsibility must be honored and recognized.
I believe that free enterprise and the encouragement of individual initiative and incentive have given this nation an economic system second to none.
I believe that sound money policy should be our goal.
I believe in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, age, sex or national origin. I believe that persons with disabilities should be afforded equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity as well.
I believe we must retain those principles worth retaining, yet always be receptive to new ideas with an outlook broad enough to accommodate thoughtful change and varying points of view.
I believe that Americans value and should preserve their feeling of national strength and pride, and at the same time share with people everywhere a desire for peace and freedom and the extension of human rights throughout the world.
Party 2
a society where the elderly and the disabled can lead lives of dignity and where Social Security remains an unshakable commitment;
a society where all people can find jobs in a growing full-employment economy;
a society where all workers are guaranteed without question the legal right to join unions of their own choosing and to bargain collectively for decent wages and conditions of employment;
a society where taxes are clearly based on ability to pay;
a society where the equal rights of women are guaranteed in the Constitution;
a society where the civil rights of minorities are fully secured and where no one is denied the opportunity for a better life;
a society where both public and private discrimination based upon race, sex, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, economic status, philosophical persuasion or physical disability are condemned and where our government moves aggressively to end such discrimination through lawful means;
a society where we recognize that the strengthening of the family and the protection of children are essential to the health of the nation;
a society where a sound education, proper nutrition, quality medical care, affordable housing, safe streets and a healthy environment are possible for every citizen;
a society where the livelihoods of our family farmers are as stable as the values they instill in the American character;
a society where a strong national defense is a common effort, where promoting human rights is a basic value of our foreign policy, and where we ensure that future by ending the nuclear arms race.
This is our purpose and our promise.
Party 3
Substantially reduce the size and intrusiveness of government and cut all taxes.
Let peaceful, honest people offer their goods and services to willing consumers without a hassle from government.
Let peaceful, honest people decide for themselves what to eat, drink, read, or smoke and how to dress, medicate themselves, or make love, without fear of criminal penalties.
The U.S. government should defend Americans and their property in America and let the U.S. taxpayer off the hook for the defense bill of wealthy countries like Germany and Japan.
Party 4
An Economic Bill of Rights
Universal Social Security
Social Dividends:
Universal Health Care:
Free Child Care:
Lifelong Public Education:
Affordable Housing:
Grassroots Democracy
Community Assemblies:
A Proportional, Single-Chamber US Congress
Environmental Home Rule:
Average Workers' Pay for Elected Officials:
DC Statehood:
Fair Elections
Proportional Representation:
Preference Voting:
Public Campaign and Party Financing: .
Eliminate Mandatory Primaries:
Ecological Conversion
Ecological Production:
Renewable Energy:
Biotechnology-No Patents on Life; No Transgenic Organisms:
Environmental Defense and Restoration:
Environmental Justice:
A Just Transition:
Sustainable Agriculture
Fair Farm Price Supports:
Subsidize Transition to Organic Agriculture:
Support Small Farmers:
Break Up Corporate Agribusiness: Create
Economic Democracy
Eliminate Corporate Personhood:
Periodic Review of Corporate Charters:
Strengthen Anti-Trust Enforcement:
Democratic Production:
Workplace Democracy:
Worker Control of Worker Assets-Pension Funds and ESOP Shares:
Democratic Conversion of Big Business:
Democratic Conversion of Small and Medium Business:
Democratic Banking:
Democratize Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System:
Progressive and Ecological Taxes
Ecological Taxes:
Simple, Progressive Income Taxes:
Eliminate Regressive Payroll Taxes:
Guaranteed Adequate Income:
Maximum Income: Build into the progressive income tax a 100% tax on all income over ten times the minimum wage.
End Corporate Welfare:
Progressively Graduated Corporate Revenue and Asset Taxes
Wealth Tax
Inheritance Tax:
Stock and Bond Transfer Tax:
Encourage a shift from speculative to productive investments
Currency Speculation Tax:
Advertising Tax:
Federal Revenue Sharing:
Ecological and Feminist Economic Accounting:
Human Rights and Social Justice
End Institutionalized Racism, Sexism, and Oppression of People with Disabilities:
Indian Treaty Rights:
Immigrant Rights:
Comparable Worth:
End Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People:
Same-Sex Marriage:
Criminal and Civil Justice Reforms
Abolish the Death Penalty:
Prosecute Police Brutality-The Jonny Gammage Law:
Restorative Justice:
Legal Aid:
Oppose Tort Reform that Limits Class Action Lawsuits and Caps Victims' Compensation:
Civil Liberties:
End the "War on Drugs:"
Labor Law Reforms
…Repeal Repressive Labor Laws:
A Workers' Bill of Rights:
Revitalize Public Education
Equalize School Funding with Federal Revenue Sharing:
Decentralized Administration:
Class Size Reduction:
Preschool Programs:
After School Programs:
Children's Health:
Improve Teacher Training and Pay:
Multicultural Teaching Staffs:
Tuition-Free Higher Education:
Oppose the Privatization of Public Schools:
No School Vouchers:
No For-Profit or Religious Charter Schools:
No Commercialization:
No High-Stakes Testing:
Curriculum for a Multicultural Participatory Democracy:
Support Bilingual Education:
Free, Diverse and Uncensored Media
Infodiversity:
Support Nonprofit and Noncommercial Media:
Real Public Broadcasting:
Regulate Public Airwaves in the Public Interest:
Antitrust Actions to Break Up Media Conglomerates:
A Global Green Deal:
Peace Conversion:
Peace Dividend:
Unilateral Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Disarmament:
Cooperative Security: .
Democratize the United Nations:
A Pro-Democracy Foreign Policy:
End Global Financial Exploitation:
Fair Trade:
Party 5
• That each individual is endowed by his Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are the rights to Life, Liberty, Property and the Pursuit of the individual’s personal interest;
• That the freedom to own, use, exchange, control, protect, and freely dispose of Property is a natural, necessary and inseparable extension of the individual’s unalienable rights;
• That the legitimate function of government is to secure these rights through the preservation of domestic tranquility, the maintenance of a strong national defense, and the promotion of equal justice for all;
• That history makes clear that left unchecked, it is the nature of government to usurp the liberty of its citizens and eventually become a major violator of the people’s rights; and
• That, therefore, it is essential to bind government with the chains of the Constitution and carefully divide and jealously limit government powers to those assigned by the consent of the governed.
I believe that the proper function of government is to do for the people those things that have to be done but cannot be done, or cannot be done as well by individuals, and that the most effective government is government closest to the people.
I believe that good government is based on the individual and that each person's ability, dignity, freedom and responsibility must be honored and recognized.
I believe that free enterprise and the encouragement of individual initiative and incentive have given this nation an economic system second to none.
I believe that sound money policy should be our goal.
I believe in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, age, sex or national origin. I believe that persons with disabilities should be afforded equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity as well.
I believe we must retain those principles worth retaining, yet always be receptive to new ideas with an outlook broad enough to accommodate thoughtful change and varying points of view.
I believe that Americans value and should preserve their feeling of national strength and pride, and at the same time share with people everywhere a desire for peace and freedom and the extension of human rights throughout the world.
Party 2
a society where the elderly and the disabled can lead lives of dignity and where Social Security remains an unshakable commitment;
a society where all people can find jobs in a growing full-employment economy;
a society where all workers are guaranteed without question the legal right to join unions of their own choosing and to bargain collectively for decent wages and conditions of employment;
a society where taxes are clearly based on ability to pay;
a society where the equal rights of women are guaranteed in the Constitution;
a society where the civil rights of minorities are fully secured and where no one is denied the opportunity for a better life;
a society where both public and private discrimination based upon race, sex, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, economic status, philosophical persuasion or physical disability are condemned and where our government moves aggressively to end such discrimination through lawful means;
a society where we recognize that the strengthening of the family and the protection of children are essential to the health of the nation;
a society where a sound education, proper nutrition, quality medical care, affordable housing, safe streets and a healthy environment are possible for every citizen;
a society where the livelihoods of our family farmers are as stable as the values they instill in the American character;
a society where a strong national defense is a common effort, where promoting human rights is a basic value of our foreign policy, and where we ensure that future by ending the nuclear arms race.
This is our purpose and our promise.
Party 3
Substantially reduce the size and intrusiveness of government and cut all taxes.
Let peaceful, honest people offer their goods and services to willing consumers without a hassle from government.
Let peaceful, honest people decide for themselves what to eat, drink, read, or smoke and how to dress, medicate themselves, or make love, without fear of criminal penalties.
The U.S. government should defend Americans and their property in America and let the U.S. taxpayer off the hook for the defense bill of wealthy countries like Germany and Japan.
Party 4
An Economic Bill of Rights
Universal Social Security
Social Dividends:
Universal Health Care:
Free Child Care:
Lifelong Public Education:
Affordable Housing:
Grassroots Democracy
Community Assemblies:
A Proportional, Single-Chamber US Congress
Environmental Home Rule:
Average Workers' Pay for Elected Officials:
DC Statehood:
Fair Elections
Proportional Representation:
Preference Voting:
Public Campaign and Party Financing: .
Eliminate Mandatory Primaries:
Ecological Conversion
Ecological Production:
Renewable Energy:
Biotechnology-No Patents on Life; No Transgenic Organisms:
Environmental Defense and Restoration:
Environmental Justice:
A Just Transition:
Sustainable Agriculture
Fair Farm Price Supports:
Subsidize Transition to Organic Agriculture:
Support Small Farmers:
Break Up Corporate Agribusiness: Create
Economic Democracy
Eliminate Corporate Personhood:
Periodic Review of Corporate Charters:
Strengthen Anti-Trust Enforcement:
Democratic Production:
Workplace Democracy:
Worker Control of Worker Assets-Pension Funds and ESOP Shares:
Democratic Conversion of Big Business:
Democratic Conversion of Small and Medium Business:
Democratic Banking:
Democratize Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System:
Progressive and Ecological Taxes
Ecological Taxes:
Simple, Progressive Income Taxes:
Eliminate Regressive Payroll Taxes:
Guaranteed Adequate Income:
Maximum Income: Build into the progressive income tax a 100% tax on all income over ten times the minimum wage.
End Corporate Welfare:
Progressively Graduated Corporate Revenue and Asset Taxes
Wealth Tax
Inheritance Tax:
Stock and Bond Transfer Tax:
Encourage a shift from speculative to productive investments
Currency Speculation Tax:
Advertising Tax:
Federal Revenue Sharing:
Ecological and Feminist Economic Accounting:
Human Rights and Social Justice
End Institutionalized Racism, Sexism, and Oppression of People with Disabilities:
Indian Treaty Rights:
Immigrant Rights:
Comparable Worth:
End Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People:
Same-Sex Marriage:
Criminal and Civil Justice Reforms
Abolish the Death Penalty:
Prosecute Police Brutality-The Jonny Gammage Law:
Restorative Justice:
Legal Aid:
Oppose Tort Reform that Limits Class Action Lawsuits and Caps Victims' Compensation:
Civil Liberties:
End the "War on Drugs:"
Labor Law Reforms
…Repeal Repressive Labor Laws:
A Workers' Bill of Rights:
Revitalize Public Education
Equalize School Funding with Federal Revenue Sharing:
Decentralized Administration:
Class Size Reduction:
Preschool Programs:
After School Programs:
Children's Health:
Improve Teacher Training and Pay:
Multicultural Teaching Staffs:
Tuition-Free Higher Education:
Oppose the Privatization of Public Schools:
No School Vouchers:
No For-Profit or Religious Charter Schools:
No Commercialization:
No High-Stakes Testing:
Curriculum for a Multicultural Participatory Democracy:
Support Bilingual Education:
Free, Diverse and Uncensored Media
Infodiversity:
Support Nonprofit and Noncommercial Media:
Real Public Broadcasting:
Regulate Public Airwaves in the Public Interest:
Antitrust Actions to Break Up Media Conglomerates:
A Global Green Deal:
Peace Conversion:
Peace Dividend:
Unilateral Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Disarmament:
Cooperative Security: .
Democratize the United Nations:
A Pro-Democracy Foreign Policy:
End Global Financial Exploitation:
Fair Trade:
Party 5
• That each individual is endowed by his Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are the rights to Life, Liberty, Property and the Pursuit of the individual’s personal interest;
• That the freedom to own, use, exchange, control, protect, and freely dispose of Property is a natural, necessary and inseparable extension of the individual’s unalienable rights;
• That the legitimate function of government is to secure these rights through the preservation of domestic tranquility, the maintenance of a strong national defense, and the promotion of equal justice for all;
• That history makes clear that left unchecked, it is the nature of government to usurp the liberty of its citizens and eventually become a major violator of the people’s rights; and
• That, therefore, it is essential to bind government with the chains of the Constitution and carefully divide and jealously limit government powers to those assigned by the consent of the governed.
