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meow2u3

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24. Here's what I'd do
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 09:28 AM
Apr 2012

I would:
- push for Constitutional amendments banning corporate personhood
- Constitutional amendments calling for Congressional term limits with a 12-year limit for Congress (2 Senate terms, 6 House terms, or 3 House terms and 1 Senate term).
- Constitutional amendments limiting the terms for Supreme Court justices and Federal judges to 10 years, with the option for the President to renominate the judge for one additional 10-year term upon the completion of his or her first term.
- A law that requires that a judge or Justice recuse him or herself when he or she has, or appear to have, a conflict of interest, with severe civil and/or criminal penalties for refusing to do so.
- single-payer health care with sliding-scale premiums. The more you make, the more you pay.
- steeply progressive taxation which taxes wealth at a higher rate than work.
- abolish the taxation of unemployment benefits, social security benefits, and monetary awards from civil rights and/or personal injury lawsuits.
- nationalize the Fed.

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all of the above and SwampG8r Apr 2012 #1
Yum. Dreamland. Syrinx Apr 2012 #3
i bet there are some in there if you can just get inside SwampG8r Apr 2012 #4
Those ribs are great, but I don't want to get sent to the big house for grand-theft-ribs Syrinx Apr 2012 #5
possible duzy nominee lovemydog Apr 2012 #10
end the war on hippies Syrinx Apr 2012 #2
End the wars. JVS Apr 2012 #6
End the United States as we know it SydBAThule Apr 2012 #7
SydBAThule Diclotican Apr 2012 #17
You ask why should not US do it? SydBAThule Apr 2012 #19
SydBAThule Diclotican Apr 2012 #21
Single Payer dballance Apr 2012 #8
alas, you couldn't do anything to affect change. cali Apr 2012 #9
3 things I would do as POTUS vlyons Apr 2012 #11
Ban the Republican party Cooley Hurd Apr 2012 #12
Legalize Marijuana, Single Payer, cut defense budget in half... bamacrat Apr 2012 #13
I'd use my only State of the Union address lovemydog Apr 2012 #14
Advocate for a constitutional amendment formally instituting publicly funded campaigns. Selatius Apr 2012 #15
that would kick ass lovemydog Apr 2012 #16
I would figure out how many things I could get done by executive order and start signing. Vinca Apr 2012 #18
First call John Boehner and Eric Cantor and tell them to watch me. no_hypocrisy Apr 2012 #20
Close Gitmo. rgbecker Apr 2012 #22
I'd put forth an idea for a law outlawing Greed madokie Apr 2012 #23
Here's what I'd do meow2u3 Apr 2012 #24
Try not to get shot. HopeHoops Apr 2012 #25
Easy: Two chicks at the same time... OneTenthofOnePercent Apr 2012 #26
Investigate Katherine Harris and the Y2K Florida selection. lpbk2713 Apr 2012 #27
Arrest the lobbyists. HooptieWagon Apr 2012 #28
The magic of this imaginary exercise... MrScorpio Apr 2012 #29
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