If You Are Being Sold Out, Shouldn't YOU Get the Money?

In the coming weeks the political class will strut and pose in an insincere and morbid dance. The rhetoric and caterwauling about doing what is best for America is beyond predictable, it is boring.

How the political class has co-opted America which stretches from the northernmost tip of Canada to the southernmost tip of Chile is amazing. The name of our country is the United States of America. Failing to identify the name of your country is almost as bad as calling someone named Mitch, Mike.

The bitching and moaning on how the legislative class will gore the federal budget or the income of the citizenry is on par with the Three Stooges. Substituting slapstick for solutions borders on pornography.  The Permanent Professional Politico  retracts leadership and responsibility in favor of perpetuating their status as a “savior” to the needs of their patrons.

While their patrons and elected officials will benefit... The other half of the country suffers. Turning any debate into us versus the U.S.

To insure everyone benefits equally from the “political process” here are a few guidelines to level the playing field.

1) A 100% tax on all political contributions. This would ensure that some of the money used to elect “a servant of the people” actually went to serving the people.

 2) All money spent by political action committees advocating one politician over another would be considered income for the politician who benefits from the ad. This would all but eliminate the snarky negative ads that so poison the political process.

3) All candidates would submit to a public audit of their finances, Not only for themselves but for their families and extended families. All income and wealth derived from sources other than the primary business concerns of the families would be taxed at 95%.

4) Each elected representative, upon reentering the nonpolitical world, would be taxed 95% on all proceeds derived from their political career. This would include speeches, books, work as a lobbyist, presidential libraries and any other form of enumeration. Salary and benefits taken in a new position would have to be commensurate with others performing similar tasks. The guideline would be the familiar “equal pay for equal work”.

Once the profit motive is removed from the political arena... The nature of the debate and the extreme positioning gives way to unleashing the creative powers and industrial might of the United States of America.