What about the United States should be changed and what should stay the same?

Question

What about the United States should be changed and what should stay the same?

Answer 1

I'm pretty down with equality for all people.

It would be cool if the government cared more about wilderness preservation, but I can sort of understand how it's not really in the interest of capitalism. It's kind of in the interest of Earth and humankind, but hey, I don't run the government.

Oh wait, democracy.

Answer 2

The 17th Amendment, which took power away from the states and gave it to the federal government.

Everything/all agencies except those dealing strictly with national defense and foreign relations should be privatized.

Pork spending should be outlawed.

Abolish the IRS.  Institute a Point of Sale sales tax.

Answer 3

drop the dems to a permanent minority and never allow liberalism to attempt to legislate from the bench

Answer 4

Well, I think that "when in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. "

But apparently that's just me...

Answer 5

my list of what should be changed...

1. an amendment to reform the taxes system to a sales tax

and tariffs and have the requirement to use any surplus to pay down the debt and then once the debt is gone to distribute any surplus to the American people, and counted to lower  what people can get from programs like wic welfare medicare social security and medicaid and student loans - so the people receiving them will still get the same amount of money but with out the bureaucracy costing us money and since it would be per capita with out strings people would be able to actualy help themselves with the money.

The sales tax would be at most 5% and tariffs at most 20% bassed on a contries enviromental and human rights records but would start at a minum of 5%. There is no sence in supporting dictatorships who poison their own people.

2. a balanced budget admindment with a line item veto to get rid of the pork barral ear marks- congress won't do it by them selvs.

3. term limits first politicans get the most done as idealistic freshmen and when they are at their max they may be freed to do somethng when they can't run for relelction.

4. armed neutrality- the last time we faced an invation that reach the contintial US was 1812. The Japanese only took a couple Islands in Alaska Guam Wake the Philipinese all of wich are in the pacific and 9-11 was a single small scale attack. there is a reason I thank God for the bomb.

what I would keep the same...

basicly every thing else.