Know the Job - A Rebuttal of my Opponents' Platform

Day 459, 14:06 • Published in USA USA • by Hurling

Both of my competitors have stated that they will work to get a Q5 hospital placed in Tennessee and will lower your taxes and/or raise import taxes.

To which I say, yeah and free puppies for all.

These positions indicate that neither of my esteemed opponents has looked into the rules of getting legislation into and through our Congress.

First, our nation has an existing schedule of where and in what order future hospitals and defense systems will be placed. This list serves our national interests. These high-cost constructions need to be placed in those areas where we are most likely to be attacked and where our citizens will stand and defend our homeland. No first term Congressman is going to get this previously negotiated and ratified schedule changed. I seriously doubt any one Congressman could amend this schedule. A very serious debate on this matter is currently underway on the Congressional thread of the eUS Forum.

Second, our Congressmen, the Economic Council, Uncle Sam, Joe and several of us private citizens just spent two weeks debating the post-emergency tax code that will be adopted over the next week or two. No matter what any candidate says they will accomplish next session, changing this intensely studied and debated legislation simply will not and should not happen.

We need a period of stability in our system of taxation so that my fellow wonks at SADD and at the Economic Council can measure the actual results of the change. Only then will it be prudent to recommend, debate and perhaps enact changes based upon measured results, not theories. We need a period of stability before tinkering. I don’t like everything about the new tax code, but we must pass something and see how it works before we can intelligently propose tweaks.

Third, the existing procedural rules of our Congress require proposed legislation to obtain five votes of support from other Congressmen before it can move to the floor for debate. Neither placing major constructions in Tennessee nor changing the tax code will get the required support. I was but a bit player in the debate on these two matters, but I was there, I voiced my opinion and I heard what was said. The constructions schedule is a done deal and the tax code will be enacted over the next few days. They will not be up for consideration for a while.

All Congressmen are limited to two proposals per session. If your Congressman uses his only two proposals for legislation that has no chance of reaching the floor, much less approval, how are your interests served? Check my statements out for yourself by reading the Department of Education’s article 12 Tips for a Newbie Congressman (http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/department-of-education-12-tips-for-a-newbie-congressman--729563/1/20).

I may not be a tank, but I have paid attention to and learned the basic rules of the job before I decided to run for the office. Let me try to form a coalition across party lines to achieve things that have at least some chance of being enacted. Government accountability for finances and a more efficient support system for our noobs can happen and will provide a real benefit to all eUS citizens by strengthening the nation.

Don’t forget to vote Wednesday. It’s good for you.