Author: hiremein2026
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Thoughts on Charlie Kirk
Note: This was written the evening of the tragedy In the last few hours, I’ve seen so many clips, reels or whatever they’re called showing conservative outrage over the horrific public assassination of Charlie Kirk. It’s both saddening and frightening to see them alternating between intense anger and pushing through their tears at the sudden…
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Establish diplomatic relations with ALL countries
In order to achieve a just, prosperous and peaceful world, we need to be able to engage in meaningful, direct dialogue with all of the countries in the world. Diplomatic relations should not be used as a reward for countries who bend to our will, it is just as important (if not more important) to…
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Reaffirm our commitment to the international community
Reaffirm our commitment to working with the international order, including to working with the United Nations, NATO, World Health Organization, and International Criminal Courts, adhering with Paris Climate Accords, and entering into new, verifiable arms control treaties.
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Encourage real estate developers to focus on affordable homes in order to expand home ownership
The United States has an extreme shortage of starter homes. Real estate developers have essentially abandoned the market for starter homes, preferring to build more expensive, more profitable homes instead. This is an area where tax policy can be used to “guide” developers in a new direction, in the form of providing a tax break…
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Natural Resources on Federal Lands belong to the people
The United States has abundant natural resources which corporations have been able to exploit for their own benefit for far too long. They pay the US tax payers a pittance for the resources they extract, while charging those same tax payers more and more for their products. This needs to be addressed – the royalties…
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Protect people from being exploited by corporations
Corporations are only accountable to their shareholders. One could say that they’re also accountable to state and federal laws, but it’s tough to argue that since they finance elections and even help draft legislation. The people that they are not accountable to are private citizens, who can do very little to influence corporate policy. The…
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Immigration Reform
We are a country of immigrants. Immigrants have built and will continue to build this country. Restricting immigration not only denies the country from benefiting from the millions of people who want to live their lives here, it also enriches the network of human traffickers and “coyotes” who bring people in illegally at exorbitant prices.
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Eliminate financial benefit of stock buybacks
Until 1982, stock buybacks were actually illegal, considered a form of market manipulation, as companies could use cash on their balance sheets to support their stock price. Today, buybacks are viewed as a “tax-efficient method of returning value to shareholders”. Stock buybacks are nothing but financial engineering meant to return value to shareholders without causing…
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Make Corporations finance the cost of paying their employees subsistence wages
Too many corporations are able to operate without paying for the true cost of the labor they employ. They pay their workers peanuts or strategically schedule them for just enough hours to remain below the full-time threshold, and therefore exempt from benefits. This behavior is awful for the employees who may need to work multiple…