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Stand Up For America's Free Enterprise Economy Fellow Americans, In the cycle of change of government within a democratic society or nation, history repeats itself and shows the same undeniable record of logical and tragic events. In a democracy, there are always politicians who know how to appeal to the base needs of the people. The majority of the people will vote to fulfill their needs until the economy becomes unsustainable at which point the democracy transforms into an oligarchy of elite members who hope to preserve their status of wealth and control. Premiums of insurance providers such as AARP will go up or are going up due to the increase of various cost factors such as the requirement for coverage of preexisting conditions. No material service or benefit provided by man has ever come free. Somebody has to pay. Private provided insurance is like a form of private socialism that is only able to exist by maintaining a cost verses revenue balance. When that balance fails to be properly maintained, the service will go bankrupt and leave people without insurance coverage. This concerns a natural law of economics. The best possible balance for the public benefit is maintained through free enterprise competition. People look to the power of government to alter the natural law of economics and make everything affordable to everyone. People look to government to have the ability to make everything affordable and maintain the proper economic balance by being above natural law that the free enterprise competing private insurance companies must follow. Government is not exempt from economic reality, it is just larger and takes more time for cause and effect to become apparent. When government fails to maintain proper economic balance and goes bankrupt, the entire society goes down with it. When the people lose their law and order, they lose their rights of democracy. Dictatorship will solve the problems of the economy by telling people to shut up and stop wanting what is not available. There needs to be a freeze on all increases in government programs of socialism. Government needs to disengage from interference into what should be left to free enterprise economic competition. If Americans don't stand by this principle and the camel's nose of government socialism is allowed to get under the tent, the tent soon comes down. Our tent is now collapsing. The problem America now faces is this, will we be able to reverse the economic collapse we are experiencing and prevent the transformation of our society into the dictatorship of an oligarchy? Our nation's founders established us under the laws of our United States Constitution with the intention of building a republic ruled by laws that would outlast the fallacies of a democracy. Whether this Republic survives, or not, depends, to a great extent, on our successful appeal for the vote of the majority. The challenge is to express needed reform to the people in a way that will convince them to vote for the solutions that will restore our free enterprise prosperity. This is the Campaign For America challenge. Independent Americans place full reliance in the political process by which we are able to win the popular vote of the people to achieve needed reform. If we are able to follow the law to promote needed reform and fail to even try, then we join the ranks of those who do not oppose the failed policies of bad politics. Reforms are needed to rescue our economy and provide for the needs of millions of Americans who have become dependent on unsustainable Government promises of support. The American Patriot Project calls for the following 10 reforms as a start toward preserving our nation's constitutional law and order, fixing our broken economy and putting America back to work.
without increasing taxes. Priority consideration should be given in providing for national defense and in achieving reform to unsustainable socialism. 2) Repeal the 16th Amendment, the Income Tax and the IRS and replace them with a Constitutional excise tax system such as the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax is a Constitutional excise tax. All direct taxes on individuals, business and investments will be eliminated and replaced with a consumption tax on the purchase of new products and services. This will promote an expanding economy to provide revenue and the time to establish all the reforms needed to fix the unsustainable economy. By eliminating the direct tax on business and individuals, the Fair Tax will bring back America's Industry and jobs. It will eliminate the Internal Revenue Service and its direct tax controlling power over every citizen. Do not confuse the Fair Tax with a VAT tax that is a bad proposal that would be a tax in addition to the IRS income tax. With the Fair Tax, all federal taxes will be up front and apparent to everyone who chooses to purchase a taxable item. The Fair Tax taxes people at the point of purchase if and when they chose to make taxable purchases, even those in the underground economy and illegal aliens who make taxable purchases. With the Fair Tax, more people will be concerned about controlling government waste and corruption. 3) Welfare and Entitlements Reform. Statistical economic projections prove that the ability of our government to pay what has been promised to the citizens of our nation in the various social welfare programs that include "Entitlements" and all other forms of socialism is financially unsustainable. Without real reform in the unsustainable programs of socialism, the law and order of this American republic could end in the most unfortunate and uncomfortable way. Those who understand this financial crisis know that when the unsustainable government debt hits the hard wall of economic reality, conditions of poverty will cause increasing hardship and civil unrest. The Fair Tax Act will restore economic freedom and bring back our nation's industry and jobs which, in turn, will increase the revenue needed to pay government debt and prevent economic disaster. With the Fair Tax, the taxing method that funds the programs of socialism will change. There will no longer be a direct tax on people. Therefore, for future recipients of benefits provided by government programs of socialism, there will no longer be a perceived entitlement based on a person's direct tax payments into a trust fund. All future benefits can now be based on need rather than based on a perceived Entitlement. Direct payments into a trust fund, that is susceptible to being robbed by government and used for other purposes, will be stopped. The American Patriot Project calls for the reforms that will revive our economy enough to help people whose lives have been turned upside down by government debt and financial policy. The reforms needed to fix our nation's economy and debt problems revolve around the two variable factors of revenue verses expense. To change the unsustainable economy into a sustainable economy, we need reform that will reduce government expenses. Government's largest unsustainable expense is the involvement in programs of socialism. The American Patriot Project supports a freeze on benefit increases and a transition to the states and charitable institutions. Recipients of benefits who are able to work, should be required to submit evidence of work preformed for the period for which benefits are received. Options for work can include community service. People unable to work, need someone to submit a release document for each reporting period that they are eligible for government provided benefits. To avoid the work requirement, people will be encouraged to plan and invest for their retirement. Encouragement for public reliance on private institutions and charitable organizations such as churches will take place. As Government expenses are cut, so can the taxes. The only exceptions to the work requirement will be for those who serve in the armed forces. For example, those who are injured while in the defense of the United States should be exempt from the requirement to perform work in return for assistance received. Veterans and active duty members who are in need of such assistance should be given that assistance on a top priority basis even in the face of the need to cut all other expenses as might be required for a balanced budget. People who plan and properly provide for their retirement outside of dependence on government provided assistance have no need to receive government assistance. 4) Repeal the Constitution's 17th Amendment. Repealing the 17th Amendment would restore each state's power to appoint the 2 Senators who represent their state in the United States Senate. In the democratic process for government that the states agreed to when our nation's Constitution was established, it was designed so that the people voted for their state's elected officials, for their United States President and for their representatives in the United States House of Representatives. They were not to vote for the 2 Senators in the United States Senate. It was the state elected officials who appointed the 2 Senators to represents the state's interests. To achieve and maintain the separation of powers, the state governments agreed to what has become known as The Great Compromise. This compromise protected the state's interests until the 17th Amendment gave the Senate body over to the forces of democracy and to the forces of out-of-state campaign financing. 5) Restore United States monetary independence by returning responsibility for control over our U.S. money back to our United States Congress. Replace the Federal Reserve Notes with U.S. Treasury Notes similar to what was being accomplished by President Kennedy's Executive Order 11110 when it was issued on June 4, 1963, before his assassination. 6) Protect alternative health care rights. Bring down health care costs by improving the health of the people through better pollution detection and control and by protecting alternative health care rights as called for in such bills presented in the 110th Congress as H.R. 3394 and H.R. 3395, the `Health Freedom Act'. 7) Pass a Constitutional Compliance Law. All future proposed Federal Government legislation should comply with Constitutional law in agreement with Supreme Court rulings that uphold the Constitution's laws and with the proposed legislation, H.R. 450, that would require constitutional compliance. 8) Trade Agreement and Treaty Reform. Rather than to make Free Trade Agreements that only benefit international corporations and the dictators of oppressed people, the IAP calls for trade reform that makes trade agreements that benefit the people of both trading nations. Free Trade is only good when it is with equally free states, not with nations whose people are exploited under oppression in factories for corporate profits. The USA became a great and prosperous industrial nation, because we had free trade between equally free states. If one of our states offered concessions to business that suppressed people's rights to environmental health or to organize in labor unions, many factories would be established in that state that exploit the conditions for the profits to be made by cheaper production. This would result in a loss of factories and jobs in the other states. This would obviously be wrong. It is obviously just as wrong that our nation should lose factories and jobs to other nations where the people are not equally protected in their rights. Because of our bad trade agreements with nations that do not protect citizen's rights, many of our factories and jobs have shut down or moved to those nations for cheaper production. We cannot be an independent nation without the factories to provide for our needs. If we now suddenly stop trade with those nations under oppression, we could feel the loss until our factories are restored. Therefore, our best move is to first bring our factories back by passing the Fair Tax Act. Through this tax relief on our domestic production, there will be a great incentive for investments in domestic enterprise and we will again become an independent and prosperous nation. 9) Promote and Establish Citizens Investment Trust Accounts. Citizens within every state and small governmental jurisdiction need to establish a Citizens Investment Trust Account or CITA for the purpose of generating investment returns to reduce the need for public taxes. The funds to begin each CITA can be found through CAFR audits. CAFR or Comprehensive Annual Financial Report audits (best performed by certified financial auditors) show where available public funds can be found to be invested to produce CITA investment returns. The funds from these investment returns can then be used for government operations to reduce the need for public taxes at both the local and federal level of government. CAFR audits show that such a method of generating investment returns for tax rate reduction is possible. 10) Reform the Personhood status of corporations. The IAP calls for an amendment to the Constitution for the purpose of overturning Federal Court decisions that have endowed artificial entities with personhood. Through Federal Court endowment of personhood, artificial or legal entities, such as corporations, receive the same protection for rights as are guaranteed to natural persons by the Bill of Rights. Thus, they are seen to be legally equal to natural persons. On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a landmark decision that called any ban on the purchase of political advertising a restraint of free speech, overturned an existing law that limited political spending by labor and big business. By seeing these organized entities as being endowed with personhood and, therefore, eligible to the protection of rights the same as individual citizens, the Supreme Court lifted restrictions on what corporations and labor organizations may invest to sway voters in federal elections. By the decision, both groups and other groups now have free rein to pour in large amounts of money for support of their agenda in all 50 states. The ruling leaves in place a prohibition on direct contributions to candidates from corporations and unions. The decision removes limits on independent expenditures that are not coordinated with candidates' campaigns. The court ruling will likely boost the role of special interests in politics. What would change if corporations did not have personhood? If corporate persons no longer had first amendment right of free speech, we could prohibit all corporate political activity. They would give no more contributions to candidates or parties, no more lobbying. Think of the ripple effect. Because they now have legal personhood status, corporations are like superhumans with all the advantages and none of the disadvantages. Corporations have infinite lifespans so they can continue to accumulate wealth and power forever while maintaining an artificially elevated status for a small number of people. Unless the court rulings establishing such personhood become nullified, it is a boost to groups having special interest agendas in politics at a time when the only special interest should be the interests of natural persons who vote. The special interests of those who work under the cloak of an artificial entity having legal personhood with superhuman advantages, should not be allowed to promote any political agenda of corruption or of anything else. Thomas Paine, in his work of 1791 called The Rights of Man, said, “It has been thought that government is a compact between those who govern and those who are governed; but this cannot be true, because it is putting the effect before the cause; for as man must have existed before governments existed, there necessarily was a time when governments did not exist, and consequently there could originally exist no governors to form such a compact with. The fact therefore must be, that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.” These Revolutionary Era people believed that any artificial entity or institution that was made up by humans, from governments to churches to corporations, must be subordinate to individual living people in terms of the rights and powers held by the institution. ******************* In God We Trust Sincerely, An Independent American Campaign For America |
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