One advantage to running for office (at least if yo belong to one of the two major parties) is that you get a forum for your ideas.
I was watching the dem debate on PBS
Black Community at Howard University listening to dems
The ideas I saw coming out of the debate were interesting
more:
1) Tax investment just as earnings are taxed. Why should the investor have to pay less tax than a worker bee?
my take on this is – stock purchase, except at the initial IPO or later release is not adding to the economy. One might tax expansive stock at a different rate if one wanted to increase investment in companies. But in truth taxing investment is damn difficult since it is based on self reporting. You and I worker bees are not trusted so everything we do via work is documented with 1099 and W2 forms. We might get a little more serious and look to documentation.
2) No fly zone over Darfur. This seems as if it would be a piece of cake. We have very great flyers but the will is needed to do just this one thing.
There were others, but those were what I thought were good. I think of more later.
(Have to go play Grandma!)
