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Reform Reform Reform

My primary goal is a non-partisan one: to reform the way that people are elected to public office in the United States. I'd like to concentrate on measures designed to close the revolving door between Congress and the world of lobbying Congress. I'd like to see reform directed at eliminating money from the campaign process: for example, by providing a robust public campaign financing alternative for candidates to the U.S. House and Senate. As an intermediary step along the route to reform, I would support measures to impose term limits on members of Congress through calling for Constitutional amendments to that effect. As long as money has the place of importance that it possesses in our system at present, the power of the individual voter will always be subordinate to the power of the money-raising special interests. In general, I support non-politicians serving their country by getting into the race, and I believe we need more independent and third-party candidates. Part of what is broken in the system is the two party system: two parties that seek only to defeat one another and that the voters can rarely distinguish when it comes down to concrete action are only marginally better than one party. I think that the role of money in politics is the disease and that the bizarre common-sense-defying output of the so-called legislative process in Washington is just a symptom of that disease.

ONCE WE GET REFORM, WHERE SHOULD WE GO FROM THERE?

Beyond my reform objectives, I believe that the best way to address the deficit would be to put fifteen million people back to work. I believe that people deserve a day's pay for a day's work and that if a person works full-time and obeys the law, she ought to be able to feed her family. I believe that the tax code can and should be simplified and that only the role of money in politics prevents it from being simplified.

MADE IN AMERICA:

I believe that we can make products here in the United States, pay our people a decent wage to make them and still have quality products that can compete with the products made anywhere else in the world. I refuse to believe that it is only by paying nine-year-old children twenty dollars a week that we can recapture our manufacturing capacity. I believe that we should make it easier for corporations to hire people in the United States and to maintain assets and facilities here. We should get rid of laws or regulations that push corporations to employ thousands overseas rather than employing anyone in the United States. One way to change the incentive structure would be to remove tax loopholes that practically guarantee that corporations will move everything overseas; tax code simplification is a useful reform.

THE SKY IS THE LIMIT:

The United States is the greatest country on earth. If we overthrow the corrupt cabal currently occupying Washington, D.C., the only limit to what we can do together is our own imagination.