Re: http://nolabels.org/
Their mission: [i]”Put the Labels Aside. Do What’s Best for America. We are Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who are united in the belief that we do not have to give up our labels, merely put them aside to do what’s best for America.[/i]
They are hiding behind the label, [i]No Label[/i], but I suspect, as usual, the disagreements will come when defining the policy positions that constitute [i]Do What’s Best for America[/i].
Defining [i]Do What’s Best for America[/i] is exactly the debate that should be advanced. Define and articulate your vision of [i]Do What’s Best for America[/i], instead of repeating what’s become one of the silliest platitudes on the planet, in whatever form it’s uttered – for the common good, for the good of the country, doing what’s best for America, etc.
How about this vision?
1. Cut the size, scope, control, power – and spending budget – of government by 1 percent per year for the next 25 years.
2. Overhaul Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid so that those government functions are slowly and systematically reverted back to be the responsibility of the state and/or the individual, phasing them all out of existence over the next 50 years.
3. Repeal any and all tax credits for anybody and everybody.
4. Sell between 50 million and 100 million acres (out of 650 million acres) of federal land to the private sector.
5. Freeze total government revenue collected at about its current level. Take the surplus from all the aforementioned savings (and earnings from sale) to pay down – or possibly even pay off – the national debt, after which time total revenue collected can be reduced.
6. Don’t pass on the burden of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and a bloated national debt to future generations.
7. Eliminate any number of federal departments: Education, Health and Human Services, Labor, Agriculture, etc., and pass on those responsibilities to the state and/or individual.
8. Repeal the 16th Amendment, and change to a comsumption-based system for collecting revenue.
9, 10……
I wonder if the [i]No Label[/i] folks share any semblance of that vision of doing [i]what’s best for America[/i]? Label me skeptical.
Their label doesn’t fool me. And there will be those who won’t let them hide behind it.
