You, President _______ have just been elected with a large mandate, and your party controls the Hill.
The plan is a New New Deal and the dollar figure is somewhere just over 1.5 Trillion Dollars.
What are you focusing on and getting done?
1. Change the personal income tax back to a flat rate. Everyone gets taxed at the same percentage with no loopholes. no standardized or itemized deductions. This makes it fair for everyone. The rich get no loopholes to find. The middle class don't get set back when they go up a tax bracket compared to the graduated income tax system.
2. Implement more stringent campaign finance reform.
3. Implement a new IT department. This group would be responsible for providing IT services and development for all government agencies. It will increase the number of federal jobs and decrease expenses by agencies. The main push for this is to stop funding federal contractors. That is costing the US government millions of dollars to outsource work. A lot of military personnel retire and get hired by private contractors and get paid more to do the same thing. Does that make sense from the government's point of view? The other thing would be to stop offering IT contracts to private contractors. This doesn't force individuals to remain with the military but is an incentive to stay. This is about cutting expenses long-term.
4. Stop funding military contractors like Kellogg Brown Root to do non-military work during war time. Contracting work out costs more money than if you could do it on your own. It would save money too. This would be an opportunity to provide more federal jobs to the unemployed at a cost that is lower than KBR and other contractors. This is about cutting expenses long-term.
5. Stop funding new military R&D projects. These projects cost millions of dollars. Right now, the US is a military super-power where most of our enemies are low-tech or no-tech. I would shelve these projects to save money. In the future, maybe some of the projects can be restarted. This is about cutting expense short-term.
6. Create federal aqueducts. This would be a network of water pipes to bring desalinated water from the ocean inland. Water is becoming a scarce commodity and can wipe out towns and cities when local water supplies are exhausted. Its projected that Las Vegas will have no water in two decades from now. This creates jobs to build the desalinations plants and install pipes. If you have drought conditions like the Dust Bowl of the early 1900s, then a community of farmers become impoverished. Cost of food goes up everywhere. Long term, it helps all citizens.
7. Implement rules to build federal highways using modern materials. In Europe, they put this elastic material in their asphalt so the roads don't crack and break up when the weather condition changes. This prevents pot holes, decreases the need to fix roads, and improves quality of life and the environment because you have less traffic jams because of road construction.
8. Divide the country into twelve sections, or districts. Create a violent game of survival where two individuals from each district would compete to win. At the end, I would congratulate the winner of the Hunger Games.
