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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (540314)	2/14/2004 2:29:35 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<1) Eliminate all taxes on capital formation, and limit the individual income tax rate to a 10% maximum.>> This helps the wealthy, not those of low income who pay very little income tax anyway. <<2) Test for literacy and mathematical skills at ALL grade levels, with student promotion to the NEXT grade entirely dependent on passing the tests.>> This might help, as long as it is not combined with privatization, which would drain funding from public schools. <<3) Privatize the school systems nationwide-allowing vouchers, if chosen locally. Prohibit the federal, state, and local governments from owning or operating any school>> Commoditizing education would make it the same as any other commodity, ie available in good quality only to those that have the money to pay for it. This item would absolutely NOT help low income people. It would take that opportunity away from them. <<4) Make union formation by teachers a felony.>> Another item to help the wealthy, not lower income people. <<5) PURGE the anti-American left-wing domestic enemy from all institutions of influence, including politics, the media, academia, the professions, the courts, and commerce.>> LOL !! I know yo don't mean this. You like an America with liberty and freedom of speech. You believe in the constitution and the bill of rights. <<6) Enforce universal and strict term limits for ALL elected offices and elected and appointed judicial offices, at the federal, state, and local levels.>> This is only going to help if there is also campaign finance reform. Otherwise it will make the system more corrupt. <<7) Enforce three requirements for voter registration: Proof of Identity, Proof of Residence, and Proof of Literacy.>> This might help. And then again, it may disenfranchise from voting the very people you say you are trying to help. I think you reforms would result in a permanent underclass. Worse than what we have today. The main difference being that the opportunity for an education and the right to collectively bargain would be taken away. Both of those rights are most beneficial to low income people.