Issues
The original issues which started Our Campaign evolved from a discussion I had with my father in 1950 shortly after our family moved from California to Ann Arbor Michigan. Those original issues are:
Tax Reform
Tax Reform, which will reform the current Tax System, which is based almost exclusively on Taxing Income which consists of only about 1/3 of the United States Economy (and taxes the Richest People little or nothing) and pays for everything the United States Government spends. My father told me that the original purpose of the Income Tax was that the Rich People would pay most of the Tax and the rest of The American People would pay very little or nothing. Today the Income Tax has been structured so that exactly the opposite is true. Today the Rich People have bought the Government of Our Country and everyone who are NOT the Rich People pay most of the Taxes.
Over many years I have considered in detail all of the Tax options which have been proposed. I have found that all of them Tax only a small part of the Economy, and for the most part the Rich people pay little or nothing, like Mr. Trump has done for all of his life.
When I studied Economics at Western Michigan University I learned that the only real solution is to Tax the entire Economy at a low fair rate where the Rich People are required to pay their fair share. I am always interested in better solutions so if you have one please tell me about your ideas. There is no “ideal” system, however; we need to evolve towards a better system.
The largest Tax on everyone is Inflation. For example my apartment in 1972 cost $1,200 per year. The exact same apartment in 2012 cost $12,000 per year. In 1972 my salary was less than $5,000 per year, it would not be possible to live on that today. That is the Tax of Inflation. According to the studies I have done in our children's lifetime Inflation may very well make at least a Million Dollars a Minimum Yearly Income.
Health Care
When I talked with my father when I was a child he was a full time student with a full time job to support his family. Even then he had difficulty paying for the good health care which our family required. The American People need a real National Health Care System which is not run by the Insurance Companies and the Health Care Industry. All people need good Health Care, regardless of their personal circumstances. The United States is the only country in the world where the Health Care System is run entirely by and for the extremely rich Health Care, and Insurance Industries.
Even with the so-called “Affordable Health Care Act”, Health Care is still largely not affordable and inaccessible to many people, unless it is provided by an employer (the current Health Care System was designed to be supplied ONLY by employers). Many employers do not provide Health Care to their employees, and those who do pay the employees less so that they can supply this coverage. No employer should be in a position to decide what Health Care they will offer their employees to have.
A real National Health Care System will provide the Health Care which ALL of The American People require removing the need for employers to provide this service, and letting employers concentrate on the business that they are best at, and not on Health Care of their Employees. A real National Health Care System will decrease Vehicle Insurance costs since Insurance Companies will no longer be involved in covering Health Care issues. It has increasingly become evident that Politicians, Judges and Lawyers are now dictating what Health Care people are able to receive, I will support an Amendment to The United States Constitution to resolve this issue, and work with qualified people to do this.
Elections
Primarily Presidential Elections
The people who wrote the documents founding The United States of America did the best job they could with the information which was available to them in the 1700’s. There is no way they could have imagined how what they proposed work in today’s world of the Internet and Extreme Partisanship.
Our first, and so-far only Non-Partisan President, George Washington, warned The American People that Excess Partisanship would destroy Our Country, as it is doing today. The Election System they designed in the 1700’s resulted in the extremely undemocratic and highly Partisan government we have today, which is run exclusively by and for The Party and NOT by and for The American People as the Founding Fathers intended it to be run. Now two major Party Candidates are selected by a MINORITY of the American People and in most case ONLY by The Party, then run against each other as the ONLY real choices we are told can win, That is NOT a proper Democratically run Election. The main thing which would start to correct this problem is for Our Country to start to have real Democratically run Non-Partisan Elections which are not run exclusively by and for ANY Party, where everyone has a totally equal opportunity to be elected regardless of whether they are associated with ANY Party. It is long past time when ALL Presidents should be Non-Partisan. The Judicial System which is now highly Partisan can not function properly when it is even slightly Partisan.
