Forum Post: Get Money Out of our political system
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 15, 2011, 11:07 p.m. EST by jewels69
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Time to get money out of politics on both sides of the aisle and fix our corrupt and bought out trade, tax and banking system.
http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/08/09/dylan-ratigan-mad-as-hell-his-epic-network-moment/
http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/08/03/job-wanted-jobs-ending-rigged-trade/
http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/08/04/jobs-wanted-ending-rigged-tax-code-jobs/
http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/08/05/jobs-wanted-ending-rigged-banking-jobs/
You're only saying this because you've heard others trash-talk money in politics. You think this makes you sound popular. You think the countless hours you've spent doing nothing should "have an endgame." Well, the endgame goes as follows: you standing on the sidewalk, holding a sign up, with a person honking and passing by, and you wondering when you can finally go back.
The fact is, most of our representatives in Congress have the highest ethics. Most of our CEOs have the highest ethics. Most of our lobbyists have the highest ethics. You don't have a problem with money when you're making money, you have a problem that you're not making money and you want to make others pay for it.
If everyone has the highest of ethics why are we in the mess we're in?
Because the economy is cyclical.
This is not cyclical, this is one long trend in the wrong direction. To create real jobs, a country must have more money coming in than going out. But we have the exact opposite, with much more money going out that we have coming in! Until we reverse that trillion-dollar trend, it is mathematically impossible to create sustainable jobs. Let’s begin with Trade. If you look at the math of the so-called free trade agreements such as NAFTA from the Clinton Administration, they put our country at a disadvantage and force american CEO’s to do business that rewards their bottom line, and hurts the rest of us. All the deals are aimed at making it easier and more profitable to export jobs, send money overseas and keep the cash offshore rather than invest it here at home.
Next, Washington needs to stop viewing the tax code as simply a way to raise money, and instead use taxes to create results. The U.S. tax code should spur American investment and job creation, not prevent it like it currently does. It is simple economics — if you lower taxes on something, you see more of it. The principle also works in reverse. Another issue with the tax code is corporate loopholes. Every year you and I send a check to Washington to pay our taxes, while large corporations, like GE, don’t pay a dime! Now, I’m not here to demonize big business — they’re simply taking advantage of tax loopholes set up by their friends in Congress. And it’s all legal! But we need to close the loopholes and shatter the practice of large corporations using money and power to gain favorable tax treatment.
And third, we need to debate laws that encourage banks to lend, as opposed to speculate and extract…so that money is spread around to job creators who actually produce ideas and hire workers.
But none of the above will change because the root of much of the evil in our system of government comes from the financing of political campaigns by powerful interests. The elite consensus is powerful enough to prevent change, no matter who is elected, and the Supreme Court has said that money is speech, and thus, protected by the Constitution. So we must pass a Constitutional amendment to speak back to the Supreme Court, and assert the primacy of government by the people.
Indeed. I love the idea. I just don't trust someone who is media controlled. It's a complex game they play. But maybe he has had enough of it?
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