My values that influence my vote, in short (very short)
Economy:
Tax that absolute shit out of the super wealthy. My idea of super wealthy is the first dollar over 100K get's taxed at a higher rate. A simple sliding scale tax code is the key.
Let the middle class pay their fair share.
Pave a way for the impoverished to move up.
Note: Make drug testing mandatory for ALL government assistance. Every single fucking one. Food stamps, Welfare, the whole bit. (This is also helpful to the healthcare concern as it relates to cost)
Healthcare:
Been working in hospital finance and patient accounting for a little over a year now and have come up with one simple theory.
Make it cheaper to provide healthcare so healthcare doesn't cost so damn much to provide. There is a reason why an Advil cost $5 when you go to the Emergency Room. It cost the hospital $4.75
A note on healthcare as it relates to citizens and the government:
One theory from a few years ago I strongly believe in. I believe it was Clinton's chief of staff that originally came up with this one:
Medicare has the lowest administrative cost of any insurance on the planet. Think of how many people are on Medicare and how efficiently they run it. When's the last time you heard of Medicare filing a claim incorrectly? NEVER! That's when.
It cost United, Humana, Anthem, e.t.c Billions! with a fucking B! a year to pay executives and governing boards salaries and benefits. This cost get's passed down to the consumer and your premiums become unaffordable.
Solution: Make Medicare a buy-in system for citizens under 65, the premium's would cost a whole hell of a lot less because Medicare has figured out how to pay it out in a fair manner. There is not one person in Medicare who makes over $200K a year. The secretary of health and human services (as much as I really don't like her and think she is far too unqualified for the job) pulls down $180K or there about. As opposed to the hundred of millions for her commercial counterpart. It would also more than likely force the commercial insurances to lower premiums costs to a competitive level.
Guns:
I honestly am not seeing how the system is broken, people are broken. I can't outright buy a rocket launcher right now so more than likely neither can the convenience store guy from Pakistan down the street...
However if I want to go out and buy an AR-15 loaded down with a 100 round drum and a scope that could accurately pop off a nat from thirty miles away, I think that is my constitutional right. Or did the framers mean something like?.....
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