Fair Tax

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This is an interesting idea.  I'm looking into it.

Carrie Ryan for President 2012

More of my Platform

Campaign reform!  You should not need to be a multi-millionaire to become President.  The post should not be bought.  There should be a rule that all candidates cannot spend more than a certain reasonable amount of money.  Major TV stations should air a few free debates, and all other campaigning should be done on limited budgets.  The citizens of this country would be thankful to not have to sit through endless (and usually full of lies) commercials for a year.


End tax deductions for children.  If you choose to have kids, great, but they are YOUR financial responsibility.  I can't deduct my cats (all of which have cost me thousands in vet bills) and people shouldn't get out of paying taxes because they have kids.  I read an article that said a huge percentage of people in the U.S. don't pay any taxes after they deduct everything imaginable.  I'm actually leaning toward the flat tax idea that no one gets out of paying.


More to come....


Carrie Ryan for President in 2012

My Political Platform -- Ongoing Project

What I'm for (in no particular order):

• Stem cell research and therapy
• A woman's right to choose whether to have an abortion or not (preferably during the 1st trimester)
• Gay marriage (love is love)
• Protecting the environment
• Animal rights and the protection of endangered species
• Clean energy (solar, wind, etc.)
• The right to bear arms to protect your property and for self safety
• Social Security (should be no income limit at which point someone doesn't pay into SS anymore and perhaps there should be means testing for getting SS)
• Affordable health care for all
• Unemployment benefits (but limited to one year)
• Taking care of Americans first
• The working middle class
• Freedom of religion (meaning that not everyone in the USA is Christian and shouldn't be told this is strictly a Christian country...because it's not)
• The right to die/euthanasia
• The death penalty
• Putting prisoners to work doing the jobs others don't want to do (picking fruit, etc.)
• Making it illegal to manipulate oil prices by speculating
• Taxing the hell out of companies that outsource jobs overseas
• Legalizing marijuana (it's no worse than booze for crying out loud and we could make money off it)
• To be continued

What I'm against (in no particular order):

• Needless wars (end all current wars now and bring our people home...saving the USA billions of dollars immediately)
• The USA parenting the world (it's time for other countries to take care of themselves...saving the USA trillions of dollars)
• Illegal immigration from ALL other countries
• Our current insane health care costs due to over charging
• Rip off pharmaceutical companies
• Rip off doctors, hospitals, health insurance companies, etc.
• Anyone in Congress getting anything average Americans don't get
• The rich not paying their fare share
• Corporate America giving CEOs salaries of millions of dollars while cutting jobs and salaries for the underlings
• Animal abuse of any kind
• To be continued

I'm running for President in 2012.

I am finally angry enough at what the idiots in Washington are doing that I'm running for office.  I simply cannot take it anymore.  I cannot sit by while the GOP plans on slashing Social Security and Medicare while giving billionaires tax cuts.  I cannot sit by while people in power are hell-bent on destroying the middle class while sucking up to big corporations.  I cannot stand to see billions spent on useless wars while Americans are told they need to fend for themselves when they're 80.  I hate to break it to these people, but when you make $40,000/year it's a little hard to save a $1,000,000 to live on when you're elderly.  But you know, it's our fault that we've not prepared for retirement.  If you are just getting by, how is that being irresponsible?!  You are doing what you can!  I put money into a 401K but I already know it'll never be enough to live on 100%.  These people need to get a clue.  Personally, I've paid into Social Security since I was 16 years old, so it's not like I'm a freeloader.  There is a huge difference between people on welfare who continue to have kids so they don't have to work and people who've worked hard their whole life and are laid off at 55, but can't get a job due to ageism...which is rampant in this country.  That 55 year old deserves some unemployment while he/she tries to get his/her life straightened out.  Do I think unemployment benefits should go on forever?  No I don't.  But should it be abolished?  No way!  Our budget would probably be fixed if we ended all wars now, stopped acting like the world's parents and let other countries take care of themselves, and put a stop to crazy health care charges.  No doctor is worth over $5,000/hour who does nothing.  I am not making this figure up, by the way.  I had one neurosurgeon talk to me for 5 minutes (where he did nothing and simply told me I needed to see someone else) and charge a fee that when added up to an hourly rate came in at over $5,000.  My friend had to go on disability due to rheumatoid arthritis not because he couldn't work anymore (though it was getting very hard), but because the one drug that helped him, Enbrel, was $1,800/month for 4 injections and he couldn't afford it unless he went on disability!  So now he's getting disability each month and the government is paying for this insanely overpriced medication.  I'm sorry, but no shot should cost $450.  Is it made out of liquid gold?!  And companies who outsource American jobs should be fined/taxed up the butt. Jobs won't stay in the USA out of the kind hearts of major corporations, believe me.  They need to be forced to keep jobs here.  And don't get me started on CEOs' salaries...