[ale] [OT] Re: [ale] Bangalore Bill

[James P. Kinney III]

The only thing you left out was to close the tax loopholes that allow
corporation to earn billions and pay no taxes. GE, Enron, and several
others have managed to avoid paying taxes on the billions they earned in
profits while our schools were cramming 35 kids into a trailer called a
classroom in front of a single teacher who is supposed to train these
kids to become good employees of these companies.

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 00:39, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> F. Grant Robertson wrote:
> > I have zero respect for a Commander in Chief who openly protested the US
> > military on foreign soil.
> 
> I have a lot of respect for a president who'd advocate such an
> unpopular, but just and moral, position. IMO the US has no legitimate
> overseas "interests" that justify deploying American military
> personnel. Our "interest" in the Mideast is just govspeak for
> "oil", and we can do without it, and do our children and their
> children an enormous favor to boot by weaning this nation from
> its filthy fossil-fuel habit. (I ride my bike a lot.)
> 
> If I were running for president, which I'm sure I'll never do,
> I'd run on the following platform:
> 
> - Get the US independent of foreign oil.
> - Maintain the most effective military apparatus on the
> planet, but use it solely in a defensive capacity.
> - Money saved by withdrawal of foreign military
> operations to be used in part to finance worldwide,
> ideologically-neutral humanitarian aid operations.
> - Remain engaged diplomatically worldwide.
> - Subsidize alternative energy research, including
> space-based power systems, until it becomes practical for
> private concerns to make money that way. As a side effect,
> reinvigorate the US space program as a practical solution
> to a number of Earthbound problems.
> - Legalize all currently illegal drugs, and tax the f*ck
> out of the suppliers. Use the money to improve education
> nationally.
> - Equal education opportunity for *all* based *solely* on
> merit. Education through graduate school should be free
> for anyone who can climb the learning curve.
> - All government IT systems to be run on fully-auditable
> systems based on fully open standards. That may mean
> proprietary, non-free software in some cases, but it will
> never mean closed source.
> - If money saved by the previous point permits, establish
> permanent colonies on the Moon and Mars :-)
> 
> </starry-eyed>
> 
> Yeah, laugh all you want...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Joe
> 
> 
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