Dear Sant’ Obama
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Submitted by Aguanomics Blog
While you are doing last minute shopping, can you get these presents for me?
- Legalize drugs — please end the chaos and waste from this failed Prohibition.
- Redirect the US Military to defense and stop supporting illiberal dictators.
- Trade with everyone (Cuba, Iran, et al.), freely. Yes, unilateral trade liberalization.
- Protect people (not jobs or industries) via portable health care, pensions and unemployment support.
- Get religion out of government (abortion, prayer, etc.) — those are private matters!
- Kill the farm bill. If we are going to bribe farm states, just send them money.
- Implement a carbon tax, unilaterally.
- Decentralize MANY government functions to states (support the 10th Amendment!), i.e., education, welfare, infrastructure, etc.
- End corporate taxes and move regulation to agencies that are harder to bribe.
- Reform income taxes (flat, with an exemption) and payroll taxes (switch social security from pay as you go)
- Close Guanto and end shameful practices that are ruining (have ruined?) our reputation as a “shining city on the hill”
- Promote 100% government transparency — retroactively!
- … and a puppy (just kidding on that one!)
Bottom Line: We can’t shoot too high when we are asking, but we can shoot too high in what we are expecting.
