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Corruption, waste and out of control spending.
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Not really. The first two anyway; they exist but aren't as rampant as cynics believe.
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15% flat tax on everybody, no loopholes.
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15% on everybody would be about 2/3s of what we spend now, and les than half what we need to cut the deficit.
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Secure the border and quit supporting illegals.
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"Supporting illegals" is a tiny part of federal spending, and the reason we're flooded with Mexican and central american immigrants is our racist policies that make it quite impossible for them to do it legally.
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Get the welfare under control and qiut giving away our money to to help other countries.
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Again, very small parts of the problem.
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Drill , Drill Drill baby Drill.
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Not an economic solution especially in the long term, and the environmental risks are way too high. See: BP disaster offshore in the gulf.
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Reign in the lawyers, pull the perks from congress and gov't managers. Make congress live by the same rules as ordinary Joe.
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Again, not a real solution.
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Term limits for all politicians.
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They're both unconstitutional and stupid. If your rep sucks, stop voting for him.
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Grow a sack . Quit lying every time you speak and care about more than your next re-election.
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This problem would be solved by one simple rule- no more cash donations to re-elections. All forms of media should be required to donate (or be paid by a pooled political campaign fund) and give equal time and opportunity to all candidates.
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Reform campaign finance so taxpayer $$ given to orginizations and unions can't be funneled back to the politicians campaign fund.
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Under the current system, restricting who can and can't give money to a candidate creates an unfair playing field. Is it a good idea to make it so that big businesses can buy politicians but workers can't? At least this way everybody gets their
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Raising taxes on the wealthy needs to come only after the gov't reigns in spending, vat tax could then be looked at as well.
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VATs and sales taxes are stupid. They discourage spending while making federal funds even more volatile than they currently are as the economy ebbs and flows. Income taxes do not discourage people from earning more, just causes whining about their tax bills.
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I think its game over if O man gets re-elected, the dollar will collapse and the muslims will be knocking at our door to "save us".. Wake up America before its too late.
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As Scott pointed out, Obama is reaping what was sown over the previous two decades. Tax and spend liberalism >>> spend and don't tax "conservatism" from the Bush years. If Obama ever wakes up and stops letting the right stop him.
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Can the czars and use the cabinet, I could go on but our leaders better change their priorities, the greed is unbelievable. Get God back in America.
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Obama has basically the same number of "czars" as Bush did, but the whole thing is just stupid media commentary. There's always been some guy in charge of a thousand different federal departments who had authority.