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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: March 04, 2012, 11:55:21 AM »

About the only one of those points I agree with is that candidates must disclose all donors and that's already the law.  It's the 527's that don't have to disclose and they are even less tied to candidates than the SuperPACs are.

As for your point of "End corporate welfare by enforcing ideals of true capitalism." it sounds good, but unless you flesh it out, it is just empty rhetoric.

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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2012, 10:51:29 PM »
« Edited: March 04, 2012, 11:18:46 PM by True Federalist »

You don't agree with cutting pay of congressmen or the president?

It's empty rhetoric. Even if we cut their pay to 0 wouldn't even save $1 billion over the now customary 10-year budget framework.   All low pay does is make office holding the province of those too dumb to make money in private business, those who hope to turn a few years in office into lucrative remuneration later because the influence they wield, or those who get their kicks from being able to make people beg for their support on various laws.

We get what we pay for.  If you want crappy people in government then pay them crap.  It would be reasonable to argue we have too many Congressmen and/or they have too many people on their staffs, but cutting their individual pay is just a silly political stunt and our budget problem is too big to be solved by stunts.
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« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2012, 12:58:27 PM »


Opposing a balanced budget amendment is not the same thing as opposing balanced budgets.  It certainly is not the same as the idiotic Hack, Slash, and Burn proposal that try to enshrine other policy goals into the Constitution under the guise of "balancing the budget".
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