New Contract with
Sign to get my vote
Richard Salbato
There is a new web site asking Middle
America, the Tea Party Americans, to come up with a new contract with
I love this web site, and with our
suggestions and corrections we may come up with a political platform that is
from the people instead of from political candidates. Send your ideas to this
web site or comment at the end of this Newsletter and I will send them forward.
This website provides you with the
opportunity to offer your innovative free market, limited government solutions
to our nation’s pressing problems and to vote and comment on the ideas of
others. As they say:
“We believe that the result of this
grassroots-generated marketplace of ideas will be a document that not only represents the will of the American people,
but promotes unique ideas that will breathe new life into the economic
conservative movement. We will have a Contract From
Contract From America’s top voted ideas
are:
Congressional Term Limits 2091 rating
Implement the Fair Tax 2058 rating
Legislation shall contain no unrelated ammendments
1922 rating
Abolish the Department of Education 1556 rating
Pass Nationwide Medical Malpractice Tort Reform
1462 rating
An Official Language of the United States 1367 rating
Congress shall not exempt themselves 1281 rating
Interstate Health Insurance Competition 1280 rating
Drill Here, Drill Now 1195 rating
cite Constitutional authority for creating laws
1172 rating
No lifetime salary or benefits for Congress 930 rating
Nuclear Energy, reduce our dependance on foreign oil
767 rating
More Drilling for Natural Gas and Oil, Increase Nuclear
Energy, and eliminate federal regulation and give power back to the states
547 rating
Federal Spending Limitations - Budget Cap 479 rating
Presidential advisers (czars) shall have no regulatory
authority 228 rating
Bills from the House or Senate are to be Made Public 7
Days Before any Vote 205 rating
Post all government expenditures on the Internet
195 rating
Congress Must Name Relevant Special Interests When They
Vote 122 rating
Abolish the Department of Energy. 102 rating
Amend the Endangered Species Act 99 rating
Hands OFF the Internet 81 rating
2nd Amendment Rights 77 rating
Repeal CAFE Standards 59 rating
Market Based Approach to Reduce Global Warming
53 rating
Create independent Ethics Committees for House and Senate
46 rating
No Raises 18 rating
A True National Energy Policy 14 rating
Alternative to Term Limits - Reduce/Eliminate Benefits
9 rating
Offer Tax Free Prizes for Energy Innovations 9 rating
High Hurdle for Spending Amendment 5 rating
Make legislators accountable for their legislation.
5 rating
Repeal the Clean Air Act! 5 rating
Pledge to Cut Deficit by 70% in Two Years With No New
Taxes 5 rating
Zero Based Budgeting 3 rating
Set Some Boundaries 3 rating
Create a Federal Program Review Board 0 rating
The following contract with
That being said, the following is my
ideas of how we get this accomplished.
My Contract with
If elected I,
_____________________________ promise and pledge to:
1. Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment. (Explanation below)
2. House member to represent no more than
100,000 citizens. (Explanation below)
3. Eliminate all Federal Departments that
are not allowed in the Constitution. (Explanation below)
4. Eliminate all house and senate payrolls
to members and their staff by the Federal Government and have them paid by the counties
and states. (Explanation below)
5. Make illegal all campaign funding for
any elected office. (Explanation below)
6. Make all government workers Non-Union.
(Explanation below)
7. Make it illegal for businesses to
offer Medical, Retirement, or SSI to employees (Explanation below)
8. Make all taxes equal to all - rich,
poor, young or old without deductions. (Explanation
below)
9. Eliminate all Corporate and Business
taxes. (Explanation below)
10. Eliminate all tax on tax. (Explanation below)
11. Stop all payments and votes to the
United Nations. (Explanation below)
12. Help form a “League of Real
Democratic Nations UDN”. (Explanation below)
13. Repeal all Federal Environmental Laws
regarding Climate Change. (Explanation below)
14. Eliminate the Federal Education and
Energy Departments. (Explanation below)
15. Make sure that no international
treaty be signed without 3/4th approval of congress. (Explanation
below)
16. No money be printed that exceeds growth
of GDP and/or replacement of old bills. (Explanation
below)
17. No comprehensive bill shall be passed
period. Every section should be voted on
separately. (Explanation below)
18. No bill will have unrelated
attachments. (Explanation below)
19. No Government employee will accept
money or perks from anyone whatsoever and for any reason whatsoever. (Explanation below)
20. To eliminate all laws that protects
me from me. (Explanation below)
21. To make all tenure laws illegal - period. (Explanation below)
22. Sell all Federal Lands to States or
private citizens that are unconstitutional and/or could be used better by
states or citizens. (Explanation below)
23. Bring the Federal budget down to 15%
of GDP and never allow it over again without congressionally declared national
emergency or war. (Explanation below)
24. Enforce Monopoly Laws for unions and
companies. (Explanation below)
25. Eliminate all mandatory classes in
1-12 grades that are not part of basic education. (Explanation below)
26. Eliminate all College mandatory
classes that are not needed for a degree.
(Explanation below)
27. No federal laws should regulate
production, but only interstate and international distribution. (Explanation below)
28. Create and require a tamper proof ID
that proves citizenship for any job, private or government. This
proof shall be a valid Birth Certificate. (Explanation below)
29. Demand that the FBI investigate
entire background of anyone holding a Federal Job of any kind whatsoever. (No explanation needed)
30. Repeal all laws that are not strictly
constitutional to the letter of the law and require all laws to be judged by
the Courts with or without a challenge being made. (Explanation below)
31. To keep our military the greatest in
the world by far. (Explanation below)
32. To encourage all citizens to serve
two years in the military. (Explanation
below)
33. To pass a law requiring all court and
lawyer costs, civil or criminal to be paid entirely by the looser of the case
and no awards be beyond reason. (Explanation
below)
34. To outlaw restrictions to Interstate Health Insurance Competition and
itemized inclusions to each person and not to groups. (No explanation needed)
35. There is no such thing as separation
of Church and State in the Constitution. (No explanation heeded)
I know and understand that we cannot ask
anyone to pledge to all these things, but if we did these things we could get
out of the National Dept right away, improve our personal and States rights, correct
the education system, protect personal rights, and become the power of the
world again.
You might note that drill, drill, drill
is not in this but it will be solved in the other pledges. You might also think this is too drastic for
a pledge, but we are facing national bankruptcy if we do not do drastic things
to turn everything around and quickly.
Explanations
1. Before the Seventeenth Amendment,
Senators were not elected, but appointed by the Legislators of the States. This kept the power in the hands of the
States and eliminated the infusion of money from outside the State to elect
people that could vote on things that had no effect on the State. It also gave the State Legislators the power
to remove a Senator that was not looking out for the State and abusing his
power. It was this Amendment more than
anything else that resulted in the growth of the Federal Government and the
massive Pork Barrel projects. Under this
term limits will not be needed.
2. The founding fathers intended that Representatives of the House be
elected directly by the people and should represent no more than 30,000 people
each. Today we have only 435. If we stuck to the 30,000 people we would
have 10,000 members, because the population has increased by 23 times. That
would be hard to change right away, but we should double it every two years
until we reach at least 100,000 people per Representative. At that point we would really know the
representative and he would be one of us instead of special interest puppet.
3. There are over 1000 departments and
sub-departments in the Federal Government that are not constitutional and not
needed. In order to get out of the
national debt, that is not sustainable, these have to be closed and closed
forever. Some of these are so stupid you
would not even believe they exist.
4. If the states send members to the
Federal government, the states should have the power in their hands. That means
the power to regulate their pay, the quality and quantity of their staff and
their pay. Who holds the purse holds the
power.
5. Today because of Cable TV and the
internet, any campaign funding for any office is not needed. If I was not up against someone like the New
York Major, who put $100,000,000 of his own money in his campaign, I could just
create a web site, get the required number of signatures and run for office. I
would get free TV coverage, free internet coverage and everyone would know my
views and promises, and I could run against anyone, rich or poor. If I was
running for major, I could go face to face with most people, and have town hall
meetings without money. A Federal Senator
would not be elected and a Federal Representative would only have 100,000
people to reach through the above means.
Money and special interests are taken out of elections.
6. Government workers are paid by tax
payers, but we tax payers have no say in what they are paid. Almost all
government workers belong to only one union and this is the most powerful, corrupt
and un-constitutional organization in the
7. I have no problem with businesses
offering benefits to workers but I have a problem with people not knowing how
much of their money is paid out to these things. For example, if the company
wrote a payroll check and then required us to write a check for our SSI and
give back to them or prove we mailed it, we would know just how much we are
paying. Even as to contributions to
retirement plans, we should actually see the check every week.
As
far as Medical Insurance, I believe it should be illegal for businesses to
offer Medical Insurance. People have no idea what this costs in
lack of wages because of this, and Insurance companies would have to sell
directly to the people, and become more competitive.
I do believe states should require that
everyone have at least Catastrophic Health Insurance, just like they do
Liability Auto Insurance. The reason for
this is that Tax Payers end up paying for people who do not have it.
If businesses could not offer benefits at
all, they could compete with countries like
8. The Constitution says that all people
are equal, rich and poor, black and white, male or female, but the Tax code is
not equal and in fact, does not work. Of
course, what I am promoting is a Flat Tax, but truth is that only the flat tax
is legal. In fact, because of the
progressive tax and the 10,000 pages of loopholes and deductions, some millionaires
pay less tax than I do. A flat tax without any loopholes or deductions would
actually bring in more money from the rich than the system does now.
9. Is it possible to tax business? No! Let me explain why. Businesses total costs of doing business, add
a profit to their costs and sell at the sum total of cost and profit. A tax is part of the cost of doing business, so
in the end the buyer pays the tax and not the business.
In most cases the buyer is the poor
person. It is not possible to tax a business at all. Tax the money that people take out of the
business but not the business.
Why is it that the stock market goes up
at a time when everyone is hurting?
Businesses can make money but reducing costs and adding profit to even
inflation or a weaker dollar. Only the
people are harmed and not the companies.
Allow companies to be free from government and they will hire more of
the people who actually do pay taxes.
This is called “Supply Side Economics” and it is the only thing that
works, both for full employment and more taxes.
10.
Tax on taxes is illegal but we do it all the time. When governments
(both Federal and State) tax raw materials, and then tax again the production
of that material into a product, and then tax again the distribution of that
product, and then tax again the sale of that product, they taxed the tax again
and again four times. Under law you
cannot tax tax.
11. We need to get out of the United
Nations, but the first step is to just stop paying for it, and it will
disappear by itself.
12. Cooperation between nations is a good
idea, but we cannot cooperate in any way whatsoever with dictatorships and
governments formed by forced and corrupted elections, and should not. Most of the nations in the UN are not real
democracies and yet have the same vote we do.
I would form a new UN made up of only
free and democratic nations, which would have our economic and military support-
United Democratic Nations.
13. Environmental Laws regarding pollution
of rivers and waterways are good. There
is no evidence whatsoever that CO2 causes any change whatsoever to the environment
and no laws to this effect should be passes.
No Federal laws should be passed even on other environment things unless
they affect more than one state.
14. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our
dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget
of $24 billion a year (Billion with a B) and we import more oil than ever
before. The Department of Education
costs more and since established we have gone from number one to last in the
civilized world. Education belongs to
the cities and counties, not to the Fed.
It is not even constitutional, except for Military Colleges.
15.
Treaty approval by 3/4th of the congress is the law but has been
bypassed many times in the past 60 years.
16.
The Federal Reserve (which we should eliminate in time) should not be allowed
to increase the money supply for any reason whatsoever except to keep up with
the growth of the GDP and should reduce it when GDP goes down.
17. The entire concept of a Comprehensive bill is a way of saying
it will have hidden and incomprehensible pork barrel and social programs. There is no logical reason why each section
of any bill, even the defense and budget bills, should not be voted on item by item.
18. It should be a congressional law that
no bill should have unrelated attachments. This is why many socialist things
were not vetoed by President Bush. They were included in the bills to support
the war in
19. This will eliminate most corruption
and allow legitimate special interests to give an argument and not bribes. Today they are forced because if they don’t
others will.
20. There are no laws (not even drug and alcohol
laws) that are constitutionally legal that take away my personal freedom,
unless it effects others. The reason for
government is to protect me from you and you from me, but not me from me.
21. Why should anyone in any job have
preference over others simply because they have been there longer? Preference should always be given to those
who do more or better work. Under the
present system, if you had no job available, you could not hire Einstein
because everyone else would have tenure.
If Bill Gates worked for you, but he was the newest, and you had to lay
off 10 people, he would have to go.
22.
The Federal Government owns so much useless land, it could almost pay
the National Debt just by selling it off to states and citizens. It owns the majority of
23.
The Federal Government was never supposed to be over 15% of the GDP and should
be lower than that. In fact, if we could
get it slightly lower than that we could eliminate the Federal Income tax altogether. If it only did was it was constitutional
allowed to do, it could not go over that amount. Eliminate 1000 departments.
24.
The founding fathers believed in individual and equal freedoms. They knew that any monopoly would violate
freedoms. Mostly they believed that a
monopoly of government was evil, but they also believed that a monopoly of
democracy could be evil, so they divided everything so that no one person or
group of people had too much power. They
also talked about and made laws preventing businesses from having a monopoly on
anything the people needed or wanted. Even the founder of the first union in
25. We are graduating people from High
School who cannot read or write, but they know how to relate to gays. With only twelve year to learn basics there
is no time for more than the basics of education. Most of the basics we should know have been
eliminated, like Geogrophy, American and Constitutional History, World History,
Physics and advanced science.
26. Why should a student of Mechanical Engineering
be required to take a class in Social Science.
We can make 4 year degrees into 3 year degrees just be eliminating the
garbage, which are just social engineering or brainwashing.
27. If I manufacture a gun or a chair and
only sell it in my state, by law I only have to obey state laws, and only then
if they are constitutionally lawful. But the Federal Government only has rights
over interstate transfer of goods, and
even then only if it effect health and safety.
28.
Illegal Immigration could be reduced by 80% if we would simply make it
impossible for them to get a real job in this county and everyone knows it. If we had this law and enforced it, BO
would not be President right now.
29. No explanation needed.
30. If we eliminated all that governments
do that are not constitutional we would cut government by 70%.
31.
32.
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33.
Many countries including