I am thinking of going via the next train. I talked to the local protesters in Bing. NY and they seem to want-
1.No Fracking- Local Issue about gas drilling which injectes water into the ground with a cocktail of other chemicals and sand to break shale to get the gas out.
2. Tax the rich- Increase taxes on the 1% who make up the millionares in this country---gee that would be about 3 million or so since we have a population of 300,000,000. Problem is that they are probaly smart enought to know all the tax shelter and havens like Grand Caymen Islands and dummy corperations
3. Abolish Coperate Personhood--Citizens United verses Federal Election Commision ruled that INC.s are people and have the right to free speech and therefore can make unlimited campaign contributions
Okay then if INCs are people then that would mean that if anyone owns a corperation then they are owning another person and owning another person is slavery? Also this might turn around and bite them in the ass because non-profit corps are also people and if they get what they want then non-profit activist groups could not influnce or lobby to get the grants that keep them alive.
4. Roll back the bank baleouts----Where were these guys when the bank baleouts were being given out in the first place? What the feds should have done is takeover the banks and then sell off there assets just like they did with the Savings and Loans in the 1980s
5. 1% sales tax on stock trades----This would raise a lot of revenue but also put a kabash on instutional investors like major university endowment funds that trade a lot that in turn back the schools where these protestors are students in the first place. Yes it would encourage long term investing. My problems with taxes is the more money the Gov has the more creative they are in wasting it.
6. End the war in Iraq and Afgansitan and get our troops the fuck out....Yes I could agree with that but once they get home how do you find jobs for them...You dont want to piss off 150,000 solders who know how to kill at least 70 diffrent ways.
1.No Fracking- Local Issue about gas drilling which injectes water into the ground with a cocktail of other chemicals and sand to break shale to get the gas out.
2. Tax the rich- Increase taxes on the 1% who make up the millionares in this country---gee that would be about 3 million or so since we have a population of 300,000,000. Problem is that they are probaly smart enought to know all the tax shelter and havens like Grand Caymen Islands and dummy corperations
3. Abolish Coperate Personhood--Citizens United verses Federal Election Commision ruled that INC.s are people and have the right to free speech and therefore can make unlimited campaign contributions
Okay then if INCs are people then that would mean that if anyone owns a corperation then they are owning another person and owning another person is slavery? Also this might turn around and bite them in the ass because non-profit corps are also people and if they get what they want then non-profit activist groups could not influnce or lobby to get the grants that keep them alive.
4. Roll back the bank baleouts----Where were these guys when the bank baleouts were being given out in the first place? What the feds should have done is takeover the banks and then sell off there assets just like they did with the Savings and Loans in the 1980s
5. 1% sales tax on stock trades----This would raise a lot of revenue but also put a kabash on instutional investors like major university endowment funds that trade a lot that in turn back the schools where these protestors are students in the first place. Yes it would encourage long term investing. My problems with taxes is the more money the Gov has the more creative they are in wasting it.
6. End the war in Iraq and Afgansitan and get our troops the fuck out....Yes I could agree with that but once they get home how do you find jobs for them...You dont want to piss off 150,000 solders who know how to kill at least 70 diffrent ways.