Comments on: To Be Fixed

By: andante

andante — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:01:50 +0000

Allow Medicare to negotiate with Big Pharma for lower drug prices.

Aggresively pursue stem cell research.

By: Salinn

Salinn — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:02:50 +0000

But but but…the tax cuts make it so that we can’t abolish the Alternative Minimum Tax! :)

Confusion in the tax system brings in the clients.

But it’s interesting to note that most presidents get one major tax act while in office. Reagan got 2, but he was a two-termer. Bush had 5 in his FIRST TERM, and one more in 2005, so he’s actually been more active in changing the tax system than most presidents. (Yeah, it’s technically Congress that is ACTUALLY changing the tax system.)

KETRA - Tax reform due to Katrina
Tax Act of 2001
Simplification: Uniform definition of child (which is anything but uniform or simple)
Some Jobs-saving tax act I don’t remember off the top of my head
and the Tax act of 2005…just to name the ones I remember offhand…

-Salinn

By: Aris TGD

Aris TGD — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:41:14 +0000

Can I get my habeas corpus rights back, too?

By: Fireball

Fireball — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:35:26 +0000

Fortunately, the nature of our system of government is such that it’s extremely hard to do permanent damage. However, the damage that has been done, especially the economic damage with regard to redistriubtion of wealth and the massive debt will take generations to undo.

Iraq: See Peter Galbraith’s The End of Iraq, we’ve reached the point where it really is that bad.

In addition for separation of church and state, rescind all religious guidelines for foreign aid (ie resume funding for aids prevention programs that don’t (t|pr)each abstinence-only).

For lobbying, the only way to fix it at this point is to completely remove money from the lobbying process, which likely requires public financing of elections. And it has to be done first or nothing else gets done

In the “you missed a spot” category, election reform. We need federal legislation that all electronic voting machines leave an auditable paper trail and standards for their security and pre-election handling. Also, something to keep anybody involved in the running of elections from being involved in campaigns.

Finally, of some relevance and possibly interest to this topic, Nancy Pelosi’s preview of her first hundred days as Speaker of the House.