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Let U.S. companies pay to have their names/logos on NASA's rockets and other spacecraft. Let them pay for naming-rights on U.S. Navy ships and submarines. "U.S.S. Geico", that sort of thing. We name subs after cities and states, so why not make some money by letting companies buy/lease the naming rights? We're a capitalist country, and that would make a statement about the power of capitalism.
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The best idea is to stop making pennies, but, since people still like having them, the next best idea is to make them from a less expensive metal. Make them from aluminum.
Aluminum is one fourth as expensive as copper. Reducing the cost of producing coins would make the government more fiscally efficient.
2 votes
Amend the Constitution so that the Congress,not the President, selects candidates for the Supreme Court. Presidents have tended to choose political extremists, so the Court will lean right or left. The Justices should not be chosen based on political leanings, and a Justice cannot be truly independent of the President who appoints him/her. The Justices, in part, preserve our Constitutional protections. They can't ...more »
Amend the Constitution so that the Congress,not the President, selects candidates for the Supreme Court. Presidents have tended to choose political extremists, so the Court will lean right or left. The Justices should not be chosen based on political leanings, and a Justice cannot be truly independent of the President who appoints him/her. The Justices, in part, preserve our Constitutional protections. They can't do that effectively if they're political appointees. They should be selected by Congressional panels composed of equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats, with a deadline of 90 days to select candidates to fill vacancies in the Court. This would make it more likely that Justices would be moderate, no bias to left or right, and that would make for a more effective Court, in which the citizens could have faith that the Court's decisions were driven by an unbiased interpretation of Constitutional protections and not by politics. This would also apply to judges of the lower federal courts: no political appointments.
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Any elected official who states publicly that he/she thinks government is a problem should be barred from holding federal office. It's not possible for a person to provide quality government service if that person doesn't believe government is a beneficial thing. I heard a member of Congress describe government as a "predator"; he should resign from office rather than continue to be part of a "predatory" organization. ...more »
Any elected official who states publicly that he/she thinks government is a problem should be barred from holding federal office. It's not possible for a person to provide quality government service if that person doesn't believe government is a beneficial thing. I heard a member of Congress describe government as a "predator"; he should resign from office rather than continue to be part of a "predatory" organization. Instead he continues to hold a cushy job at very high salary. Government should be operated by people who believe in the power of government to make life better for all of its citizens. That would be a more effective government. It would also be more efficient, because it would remove those who believe that shutting down government is a good idea. A government run by people who want to make government work better.
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Any U.S. company that brings its outsourced jobs back to the U.S. should be given a tax-break for every American worker it hires to fill those jobs. Any company that re-opens a closed factory here should also get a tax break. Any foreign company that opens a new factory in the U.S. and hires Americans to work here should also get a tax break. The loss of corporate tax revenue would be replaced by the now-employed workers' ...more »
Any U.S. company that brings its outsourced jobs back to the U.S. should be given a tax-break for every American worker it hires to fill those jobs. Any company that re-opens a closed factory here should also get a tax break. Any foreign company that opens a new factory in the U.S. and hires Americans to work here should also get a tax break. The loss of corporate tax revenue would be replaced by the now-employed workers' income tax payments. Companies outsource because it saves them money; make it even more attractive to bring the jobs back to the U.S. The corporate execs would have bigger bonuses to buy bigger yachts and the American workers would be employed. It's a win-win for business, workers, and the government's revenue stream.
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