Office of Senator Pingvin (Fed-TX)

[CLARENCE 2015!]

What are you running for Pingvin- you have my support of course

[Pingvin]

I'm running for re-election for one more term in the Imperial Legislature.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

I'm seeking the Whig endorsement for Mideast Assembly elections that are forthcoming.

[Pingvin]

I'm seeking the Whig endorsement for Mideast Assembly elections that are forthcoming.

You got my endorsement.

[TJ in Oregon]

I'm seeking the Whig endorsement for Mideast Assembly elections that are forthcoming.

I believe members of the Whig Party running for office receive that endorsement automartically, no?

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

I'm seeking the Whig endorsement for Mideast Assembly elections that are forthcoming.

I believe members of the Whig Party running for office receive that endorsement automartically, no?

Sorry for my rookie moment there.

[Pingvin]

I'm urging everybody to turnout and vote. The future of country depends from you. Every vote counts.

[Pingvin]

VICTORY!

[CLARENCE 2015!]

Congratulations Pingvin-

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

VICTORY!

Congrats. Let us both fight hard for conservative values where we are.


Assemblyman Elect JCL

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Congrats, friend!

[Pingvin]

I am hereby formally declaring my candidacy for the Senate.
  

I am in this race to win, because I believe that only the tested principles of Conseravtism can lead us to victory and guide our country safely through the perils of the future.  

In all humility, but conscious too of the importance of the issues at stake, and proud to carry in this contest the banner of responsible conservatism, I respectfully ask for the support and the votes of the registered voters of Atlasia.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

You have been a very active legislator and member of this board who has never abandoned our principles- I am proud to endorse you

[Pingvin]

Endorsements:
Senator Clarence (Whig-FL)
SoIA 20RP12 (Liberal-WI)
IDS Legislator ChairmanSanchez (Popular Liberty-FL)
Assemblyman Cathcon (Whig-MI)

[Pingvin]

Pingvin on Defense:
1. Cut the nuclear weapons arsenal to 500 deployed warheads.
2. Reduce the size of the Army to 360,000.
3. Reduce the size of the Marine Corps to 145,000.
4. Reduce Marine Corps expeditionary strike groups to 6.
5. Build and operate fewer aircraft carriers and naval aircraft.
6. Build and operate fewer tactical submarines.
7. Build and operate fewer destroyers.
8. Terminate the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS).
9. Build and operate fewer Air Force fighters.
10. Terminate the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle.
11. Terminate the V-22 Osprey.
12. Realign the missile defense program.
13. Cut the Pentagon's civilian workforce.
14. Reform military compensation.
15. Reform maintenance and supply systems.
16. Cut military construction and housing.
17. Reform command, support, and infrastructure.
18. Reduce intelligence spending.
19. Reduce research, development, testing, and evaluation.
20. 20% pay raises for all military members.

[Pingvin]

Pingvin on Immigration
1. 10-year moratorium on all legal immigration at a level between 150,000 and 250,000 per year
2. A 2,000-mile (3,200 km) double-line security fence between the Atlasia and Mexico
3. A federally legislated end to all social welfare benefits for illegal aliens, except for emergency medical services
4. A crackdown on major businesses that chronically hire illegal aliens and the elimination of deductibility for all wages paid to illegals
5. A policy allowing immigrants to bring in only wives and non-adult children
An end to dual citizenship in the Atlasia
6. A deportation program beginning with all aliens convicted of felonies and every gang member who is not a citizen of the Atlasia
7. Recognize English as only national language of Atlasia
8. Fund more toward teaching English to immigrants who are insufficient in English

[Pingvin]

Pingvin on Healthcare:
1. National Healthcare Act should be repealed
2. All Atlasians receive a voucher each year to purchase a standard plan from the private-plan provider of their choice.
3. Vouchers are individually risk-adjusted; those with higher expected healthcare costs, based on documented medical conditions, receive larger vouchers.
4. Participating insurance companies providing standard plans cannot deny coverage.
5. Each year a panel of doctors sets the coverages of the standard plan subject to a strict budget, namely that the total cost to the government of the vouchers cannot exceed 10 percent of GDP.
6. Insurance companies providing standard plans contract with private providers to cover their plan participants.
7. Atlasians choose doctors and hospitals included in the standard plan they choose.
8. Plan providers compete and provide incentives to improve participants' health and limit bad health practices.
9. Plan providers offer supplemental plans to their participants and cannot deny supplemental insurance coverage to their participants.
10. The government (federal and state) ends the tax exclusion of employer-provided health insurance premiums.
11. The roughly 10 percent of GDP now spent or allocated by federal and state government on these and related programs, as well as on the tax exclusion of employer-provided health insurance premiums, is reallocated to help finance the vouchers.

[Pingvin]

Pingvin on Agriculture
1. Elimination of all inheritance and capital gains taxes.
2. Requiring that all countries that trade with the us give Atlasian farmers open access to their markets absent tariffs and quotas.
3. Abolition the IMF and end financial aid to foreign competitors of Atlasian farmers.
4. Review of all embargoes and sanctions of foreign countries that "use food exports as a weapon."
5. Enforcement of strict anti-trust laws to "prevent mega-mergers from forcing the vertical integration of Atlasian agriculture."
6. Requiring price disclosure.
7. Support for ethanol production as integral to a policy of national energy independence.
8. Requrie a vote of Senate on every species listed as endangered.
9. Regulatory changes: impose a moratorium on all new regulation, requiring a sunset provision of five years on all regulation, and instituting a defined annual cutback in regulatory paperwork.

[Pingvin]

Pingvin on Taxes
1. Nail a going out of business sign on the door of the IRS.
2. Replace federal income tax with the VAT.
3. Eliminate corporate taxes to no higher than 5% to bring back jobs.
4. Encourage individuals to start their own businesses by eliminating corporate taxes.
5. Keep tax subsidy for companies that work overseas in support of free enterprise.
6. Remove charitable deductions on taxes because it only benefits the rich.
7. Eliminate cell phone taxes and replace it with a cell phone user’s bill of rights.
8. No Internet taxes.
9. Property taxes pay for local schools but should be as minimal as possible.
10. Eliminate taxes on death, marriage, property, beer, cigarettes, and tobacco.
11. Eliminate farm taxes so that the money can be used in the private sector and cut food costs.
12. Eliminate federal taxes on crops in order to allow for spending cuts on food stamps.
13. Slash the capital gains tax, indexing it for inflation and eliminating it for new risk capital invested in start-up businesses.
14. End inheritance taxes on all family businesses and family farms.
15. A moratorium on new regulation, a sunset provision of years on all regulations, and a defined annual cutback in paperwork for small businesses.
16. A review and rollback of the unfunded mandates of the past and restrictions on future unfunded mandates.
17. Elimination of all quotas, contract set asides and affirmative action from federal programs and federal law.
18. Tort reform at both the state and local level. Punitive and compensatory damages should be related to actual harm done, and the loser should be made to pay the legal fees of the winner.

[Pingvin]

Pingvin on Social Security
1. Start a Privatisation of the entire system.
2. Pays existing Social Security beneficiaries their full benefits.
3. Freezes existing Social Security system by filling zeros in workers’ earnings records for years after reform begins.
4. Requires all workers under 60 to contribute 8 percent of their wages to personal security accounts (PSAs).
5. Each worker's contribution is allocated 50-50 to his/her own PSA and to his/her spouse/legal partner's PSA.
6. Government matches contributions to PSAs by the poor, unemployed, and disabled on progressive basis.
7. All PSA balances invested in a global market-weighted index fund of stocks, government bonds, corporate bonds, mortgages, real estate trusts, and other financial assets.
8. Between ages 61 and 70, PSA balances for each cohort are gradually sold at market and converted to TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities).
9. All investing is done by a single government computer at zero cost.
10. Government guarantees that PSA balances at conversion equal at least what was contributed adjusted for inflation. I.e., government guarantees participants at least a zero real return.
11. PSA participants who die prior to age 70 bequeath unconverted balances to their heirs.
12. Starting at age 62, cohort TIPS pool makes payout to surviving cohort PSA participants in proportion to their age 60 PSA balances.
13. Distribution from TIPS pool is designed to ensure that real (inflation-adjusted) payout to surviving cohort members does not decline through time.

[Pingvin]

Pingvin on Education
1. Support a school vouchers programme for everybody.
2. States and localities should devise their own standards, tests, curricular materials and instructional practice manuals.
3. The federal government would fund broader state participation in the Nation’s Report Card and international tests.
4. States making progress on the Nation’s Report Card, international tests, the SAT and the ACT tests rewarded with significant federal grants.
5. Support testing of teachers in K-12 on broad content knowledge and ensure that grade 5-12 teachers have strong specific content knowledge, particularly in math and science.
6. Federal government will provide bonuses to top math and science teachers.
7. Federal government will encourage states to promote schooling options and school choice.
8. Federal government develops master administrator program, master teaching, and master parenting program to improve delivery of knowledge and educational attainment.
9. Support state efforts to make third-grade literacy a pre-requisite for entering fourth grade
10. Develop grade- and subject-specific, web-based instructional videos featuring nation's best K-12 teachers. Make these videos freely available to schools, teachers, parents, and children.
11. Assist low-income parents with children in acquiring laptops and web access to permit online learning by children after school, on weekends, and in the summer.
12. Provide financial incentives to children on income-related scale to go to school, read, maintain good behavior, and finish high school.
13. Establish a national school uniform.
14. Teachers have the right to unionize but not the right to force unionization.
15. Teachers may not discuss unions or political views with students.
16. Leave sexual education for families to teach.
17. Leave abstinence for parents to teach.
18. Constitutional amendment allowing voluntary teacher-led school prayer.
19. Allow students to have part time jobs at their schools to encourage responsibility at an early age starting in 4th grade.
20. After school jobs cannot exceed 13 hours per week.
21. Students should be required to take a 10 minute break for each hour of work.
22. Allow banks to have the freedom to lend money for college.
23. Loans are to be paid back in money, not enslavement to the federal government.
24. No work program in exchange for loan payments; only furthers government dependency.
25. Reimbursement for college graduates so that no graduate owes the federal government more than $60,000 when graduating.
 
 
 

[Pingvin]

Pingvin on Finances
1. Plan applies to all financial companies protected by limited liability. This includes incorporated commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, and private equity funds.
2. All financial companies protected by limited liability must operate exclusively as mutual fund companies that market mutual funds.
3. Mutual funds are not allowed to borrow and, thus, never fail.
4. Mutual fund companies required to also issue cash mutual funds, which hold only cash.
5. Cash mutual funds are used for the payment system.
6. Cash mutual funds are backed to the buck.
7. Mutual fund companies are not permitted to back money market or other non-cash mutual funds to the buck and can lose value.
8. A single regulator - the Federal Financial Authority (FFA) -- hires private companies that work only for it.
9. Companies working for FFA verify, appraise, rate, custody, and disclose, on the web and in real time, all securities held by mutual funds.
10. Mutual funds buy and sell FFA-processed and disclosed securities at auction. This ensures that issuers of securities, be they households or firms, receive the highest price for their paper (borrow at the lowest rate).
11. Allow housing lenders and mortgage companies to raise standards for loan qualifications.
12. Stricter laws regarding housing loan qualifications and consolidation.
13. Federal minimum wage laws should be kept.
14. Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing the right to work in all 50 states.  
15. Form a homeowners’ bill of rights regarding property rights.
16. Limit federal regulation of banks to extreme circumstances.
17. Lower overdraft fees for offenders who are not repetitive.
18. Expand free trade into third world.
19. Make free trade with China permanent in order to become better allies.
20. No tariffs on goods coming into the Atlasia by water.
21. No tariffs on goods coming into the Atlasia by roads.
22. Tariffs only lead to higher prices.

[Pingvin]

Pingvin on Energy
1. Tax the burning of fossil fuels—coal, oil-based products such as gasoline, aviation fuel, and motor oil, and natural gas—in proportion to their carbon content or to their carbon-equivalent content (to deal with emissions of other gases contributing to climate change).
2. Use the proceeds of this carbon tax to quintuple R&D on clean energy and carbon capture and sequestration, provide transition assistance to workers and ongoing assistance to low-income households adversely affected by the tax, subsidize clean energy production and use, and reduce the deficit.
3. Adjust the level of the carbon tax to set a floor to the price of dirty energy. When the world price of dirty energy rises, the tax will be reduced. When the price of dirty energy falls, the tax will be raised.
4. Eliminate all existing subsidization of the production and exploration of dirty energy.
5. Set the initial carbon tax at $25 per metric ton of CO2. This will raise the price of gasoline at the pump by roughly 25 cents per gallon and generate approximately $100 billion in first-year revenue.
6. Increase the carbon tax by 5 percent above inflation each year for the next 30 years. By 2040, the carbon tax will raise the inflation-adjusted price per gallon of gasoline by an estimated $1.00.
7. If the weighted average wholesale price of dirty energy falls, raise the carbon tax to maintain its retail price on its projected desired path. If the weighted average wholesale price of dirty energy rises (for reasons other than monopoly pricing by OPEC), reduce the carbon tax to remain as close as possible to the desired dirty energy retail price path.
8. Maintain tough energy efficiency (CAFE) standards for motor vehicles.
9. Encourage other countries to adopt a carbon tax.
10. Impose dirty energy tariffs, in consultation with the World Trade Organization, on the importation of goods from countries not adopting and effectively implementing a significant carbon tax or the equivalent cap and trade policy. These tariffs would be set in light of the dirty energy content of the imports in question.
11. Goal is to find an alternative for oil by 2040.
12. 100,000 hydrogen powered vehicles by 2020.
13. Eliminate gas tax to lower gas prices by 50 cents per gallon.

[Pingvin]

Pingvin on Govt Reform
1. Public financing for campaigns NOW.
2. Candidates may ask for a recount if margin of difference is within 0.25% in federal campaigns.
3. Proof of citizenship and voter registration at the ballot box.
4. Regional Legislatures members limited to six two-month terms.
5. Senate members limited to two six-month terms.
6. 40% pay cut for senators and legislators.
3. President’s salary cut  to $250,000.
4. Constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget at the end of each year.
5. Cut federal programs by 30% to pay off national debt.
6. End corporate welfare by enforcing ideals of true capitalism.
7. Eliminate 30% of government employees if the government is underfunded.
8. Support a strict federal maximum speed regulations.
9. President is limited to one six-month term.
10. Supreme Court judges are limited to one 1,5 year term.
11. At-large Senate seats abolished, every region gets a one additional seat instead.

[Pingvin]

Pingvin on Foreign Policy
1. Stop any country that harbors a terrorist because they are just as guilty as the terrorists.
2. Invade Iran for harboring terrorists if new sanctions don’t work.
3. Keep sanctions on Iran.
4. Stand by Israel in the face of an attack.
5. Seek congressional approval for invasion of Iran.
6. Free trade is good for foreign policy.
7. No trial for non-citizens or those suspected of terrorism, but military tribunals instead.
7. Close military bases that we no longer use.
8. Those harboring terrorists are just as guilty as the terrorists themselves.
9. Provide aid for Israel in times of need.
10. Protect Israel’s right to having its own sovereign nation.
11. Limit foreign aid to $10 billion each year, just enough to ease starvation.
12. Place sanctions against North Korea.
13. Air raids are necessary if North Korea does not disarm.