CONTRACT WITH AMERICA 2012

A proposal for Americans to take our government back from career politicians who have forgotten that they are public servants.

1. TERM LIMITS FOR CONGRESS

This is the first and most important change we can make. Do this and we won't get the wrong people running for congress in the first place.

            http://www.termlimits.org/

2. REPEAL FEDERAL RESERVE ACT

The Founding Fathers intended for Congress to be in charge of our money, not a private bank.

            http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/audit-the-federal-reserve-hr-1207/

3. REPEAL THE 16TH AMENDMENT (income tax)

This tax is socialist at its core and needs to go.

                http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.477/pub_detail.asp

4. FAIR TAX (National Sales Tax)

            http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer

             Ideally, a national sale tax would be the only tax in the nation, with the Federal, state and local governments obtaining their budgets from this source. The plan I used in my novel Asulon puts the individual states in charge of collecting the sales tax and then each state would send 1/3 up to the federal government and 1/3 down to the county in which the tax was collected. This would go a long way in restoring the 10th Amendment as well. When it comes to government, money equals power.

5. REPEAL OMBAMACARE AND REPLACE IT WITH:

             1. A law that allows consumers to buy health insurance across state lines. This will lower prices on health insurance.

            2. Tort reform. (Texas has done a good job at this).

            3. Change law that requires people without health insurance to go the most expensive place in healthcare (a hospital emergency room) for their initial care. Instead provide incentives for their treatment at the offices of primary care physicians.

            http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare

6. ABOLISH REDUNDANT FEDERAL  AGENCIES

             The Federal government should do ONLY what the states cannot. The closer to the original four cabinet departments of George Washington we can get the better off we will be. Regulating things like Education and Housing should be left to the states.

Here’s a good step in the right direction: http://www.heritage.org/Research/GovernmentReform/BG1072.cfm

7. SCHOOL VOUCHERS

Competition has worked to improve all other areas of commerce, why not education? You'll find a good discussion of the issues with appropriate links here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_voucher

The Sword of Fire novels contain these and similar issues. You’ll find samples in Asulon chapter 2, 3 & 4 and in Eretzel in chapter 6. Fiction can be a good way to introduce these concepts to those who would not usually read political texts.