Today is a day which will go down in infamy as the day which the Conservative Party of Winston Churchill finally died. Today is the day which the cheerleader for mercantilism, isolationism, and fascism ascended to the highest office of the land of Great Britain. Threatening trade routes, the free movement of people, and putting …
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Issues in terms of importance
There are a lot of issues floating around in the political landscape right now, and they all deserve some level of importance. When it comes to the most important issues facing America today, here is how I think of them in terms of importance. Social justice has many aspects demanding attention as always. You have …
Bloomberg on retirement
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-06-13/world-s-retirees-risk-running-out-of-money-a-decade-before-deathI have written a big on this issue before, and if you search my social security label on my blog you will see why I am highly critical of Americas retirement system. When designing a retirement system which works for ALL, there are a few key ideas I believe will help make something which works …
6 point economic plan to save the middle class
There are some serious problems in the current American economic system which hold the middle class back. All of these policy decisions reduce income mobility and hold our economy back. Here are what I see from my life as the biggest problems in the American system which hold Americans back: Our health care system has …
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We must end ESTA
Unaware to most Americans, the United States implemented the Electronic System for Travel Authorization as a recommendation of the 9/11 Commission, which restricts non-overland travel to the United States for all countries except Canada, Bermuda, Marshall Islands, and Micronesia. It is claimed to improve our security, but in reality this is completely false. Over 99% …
2020 is our last chance
In 2000 the Presidential election was stolen from President elect Al Gore by vote rigging in Florida. I fully believe based on all available evidence this is the case. Vice President Gore was going to attempt to make monumental shifts in how America was going to tackle the biggest challenge of our time, which is …
How to do ranked voting for the President
I just had an idea as I am on the bus listening to Hamilton about how we could do the Presidential election using ranked voting. The President is very obvious, we vote for the President and rank them by number using IRV. This is the most fair system since having more than 2 parties is …
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Reasons to be Pro-Choice
No intro, let’s just get on with it. It is fundamentally wrong to force a woman to give birth to a baby she doesn’t want to. Enough? If you are arguing you are killing a person, you need to go back to biology, because the fetus is not conscious separate from the mother until the …
The Path to Fair and Equitable Carbon Pricing
This morning, as I was eating my breakfast, I was thinking about global warming and carbon taxes as I usually do. We had some important progress done this year, and we can use the momentum we have gotten from this next year to pass significant legislation in 2020 in the Washington State Legislature. Brief history …
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More on Open Border policies around the world, Part One
As I have described in previous posts, I have been looking at outliers for open border policy around the world. Today I did a lot of work on it, improved my data, and now have a database of 208 borders in the world, with 124 different countries represented. Let’s dig into the data. To refresh, …
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