Green Party Platform...no thank you.

[TrailerParkJawa]

While I agree with a few of the items on this list, like ending the sanctions on Cuba, I find most of this stuff to be unworkable.


http://www.greenparty.org/Platform.html

Maximum Income: Build into the progressive income tax a 100% tax on all income over ten times the minimum wage.

Hmm..no.

Affordable Housing: Expand rental and home ownership assistance, fair housing enforcement, public housing, and capital grants to non-profit developers of affordable housing until all people can obtain decent housing at no more than 25% of their income. Democratic community control of publicly funded housing programs.

Please define "decent" housing. No more than 25% of their income? That's a neat trick in the Bay Area where the demand for housing outstrips supply. How they gonna fix that?

[Mr Bean]

Wow 10x the Minium Wage?

So that means the most you can make is 210k a year



Err yah great... There goes the *High end Market, Private jets? No likley. Million Doller Houses? Heck no

Gee thats like declaring everyone makes the exact same...

(Brillant idiots in action!)

[A Big Flying Fish]

is it just me or do some of their policies sound, well, slightly communist
eg.

Democratic Banking: Mandatory conversion of the 200 largest banks with 80% of all bank assets into democratic publicly-owned community banks. Financial and technical incentives and assistance for voluntary conversion of other privately-owned banks into publicly-owned community banks or consumer-owned credit unions.

sound familiar (late 1910s soviet union)

Strengthen Anti-Trust Enforcement: Require breakup of any firm with more than 10% market share unless it makes a compelling case every five years in a public regulatory proceeding that it serves the public interest to keep the firm intact.

less extensive, but the same again.

*imagines communist america* hehe.

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

Fortunately, America will never have a Green Party president.

[EmperorSolo51]

FRom what I understand the Green Party is nothing but the American Socialist party but with a different name.

[Mr Bean]

Wow 10%?

Err gee is that not every single Major Company on the Market?

So basicly excluding Bio-techs you have to review the entire Dow Jones and NASDAQ Companys along with tons of others gee I can think of eighty companys off the top of my head who have over 10% Market share in thier areas

Talk about a lack of free market enterpize...

[TrailerParkJawa]

When I read this list, I was amazed. Wow, these guys are really hard core socialists.

I also question how on Earth you are going to guarantee everyone a job?

If you tax all income above 100% , companies would not pay anyone that much and then there would be ZERO tax income from wages above 10x the minimum wage.

Oh, which reminds me, which minimum wage ? Federal, Califronia, or their proposed 26,000 year income?

[Sea Skimmer]

Please define "decent" housing. No more than 25% of their income? That's a neat trick in the Bay Area where the demand for housing outstrips supply. How they gonna fix that?

Forced relocation..

[Wicked Pilot]

While I agree with a few of the items on this list, like ending the sanctions on Cuba, I find most of this stuff to be unworkable.

Yeah, the Green Party and Ralph Nader are pretty far out there. But at least you know where they stand. They won't bullshit you like the Republicans and the Democrats.

[phongn]

When I read this list, I was amazed. Wow, these guys are really hard core socialists.

I also question how on Earth you are going to guarantee everyone a job?

No idea, but that will likely be inflationary. The whole concept of the NAIRU and all (yes, I realise that using NAIRU is not the most accurate indicator, especially for the boom of the late 1990s).

If you tax all income above 100% , companies would not pay anyone that much and then there would be ZERO tax income from wages above 10x the minimum wage.

Exactly.

Oh, which reminds me, which minimum wage ? Federal, Califronia, or their proposed 26,000 year income?

No idea. Whatever they set, probably

[Sea Skimmer]

While I agree with a few of the items on this list, like ending the sanctions on Cuba, I find most of this stuff to be unworkable.

Yeah, the Green Party and Ralph Nader are pretty far out there. But at least you know where they stand. They won't bullshit you like the Republicans and the Democrats.

No, Nader spews a lot of lies and crap, especially about him being on the consumer's side..

Anyway, really the Green party's idea are arranged so that the only way they can be implemented is for the country to become hard-core socialist. However most of his moron followers and often Nader him self claim this is not so..

[MKSheppard]

http://www.southernparty.org

I'm going to this one.....there isn't a dime's difference
between Republicans and Democrats anymore.....

The DemoCRAPS will drive you off a cliff driving 80 MPH,
while the Repukes will drive you off the cliff doing the speed limit.

EDIT:

The difference between the D and R parties is that the Dims will get us
to a totally socialist Amerika in 15 years, while the Repukes will get us
to a totally socialist Amerika in 30 years.

Most "Mainstream" conservatives like George F. Will are all for big government
as long as THEIR guy is in the reins.....

[phongn]

Wow 10%?

Err gee is that not every single Major Company on the Market?

So basicly excluding Bio-techs you have to review the entire Dow Jones and NASDAQ Companys along with tons of others gee I can think of eighty companys off the top of my head who have over 10% Market share in thier areas

Talk about a lack of free market enterpize...

Companies will abandon the United States. Do you really think GE, Boeing, etc. would put up with this nonsense?

[EmperorSolo51]

When I hit 18 I am going to join the America First Party:
http://www.americafirstparty.org/

[MKSheppard]

When I hit 18 I am going to join the America First Party:
http://www.americafirstparty.org/

Justin Raimondo? That piece of trash can take a long walk off a short
pier.

[Wicked Pilot]

Yeah, the Green Party and Ralph Nader are pretty far out there. But at least you know where they stand. They won't bullshit you like the Republicans and the Democrats.

No, Nader spews a lot of lies and crap, especially about him being on the consumer's side..

Anyway, really the Green party's idea are arranged so that the only way they can be implemented is for the country to become hard-core socialist. However most of his moron followers and often Nader him self claim this is not so..

Perhaps I was misleading, so I will try to better explain what I was errr... trying to explain. Basically I trying to convey that the Green Party, like the other 3rd parties, are so small that special interest groups don't finance them. Obviousily that could change if they got into power. But for now, they are more or less controlled by inside forces, and don't have to whore themselves to special interest groups for funds.

[Mr. B]

Maybe we should form the Warsies party and work to establish our own Galactic Empire.

Just think of the possibilities.

[Sea Skimmer]

Yeah, the Green Party and Ralph Nader are pretty far out there. But at least you know where they stand. They won't bullshit you like the Republicans and the Democrats.

No, Nader spews a lot of lies and crap, especially about him being on the consumer's side..

Anyway, really the Green party's idea are arranged so that the only way they can be implemented is for the country to become hard-core socialist. However most of his moron followers and often Nader him self claim this is not so..

Perhaps I was misleading, so I will try to better explain what I was errr... trying to explain. Basically I trying to convey that the Green Party, like the other 3rd parties, are so small that special interest groups don't finance them. Obviousily that could change if they got into power. But for now, they are more or less controlled by inside forces, and don't have to whore themselves to special interest groups for funds.

They wont get anywhere without heavy funding, and special interest groups are what supply that. Thats the only way to support party growth.

[Raptor 597]

Maybe we should form the Warsies party and work to establish our own Galactic Empire.

Just think of the possibilities.

Great, I'll bring the Mindless Stormtroopers and the Beer.

[Mr Bean]

Maybe we should form the Warsies party and work to establish our own Galactic Empire.

Question does this mean Lucus or the guy who playied the Emperor is our new Canadit for President?

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

Maybe we should form the Warsies party and work to establish our own Galactic Empire.

Question does this mean Lucus or the guy who playied the Emperor is our new Canadit for President?

The one in ROTJ or the one in AotC? And when the emperor wins the White House, he can have this dark room where he can wither away!

[Wicked Pilot]

They wont get anywhere without heavy funding, and special interest groups are what supply that. Thats the only way to support party growth.

Not necessarily. Special Interest funds sure do help, but you can succeed without them. For example, Jesse Ventura's mayorial and governertorial campaigns were financed completely with small individual donations.

[Resident Commie]

"...based on grassroots political and economic democracy, nonviolence, social justice, and ecological sustainability."
-Green Party Platform

The only people who don't want this are those which I would like to call

FASCISTS

[Mr Bean]

But Resident Commie as they say

If only it where true

[LordShaithis]

Ian McDiarmid played Palpatine in both ROTJ and the new prequels. They just slapped a lot of makeup on him for ROTJ.

Anyway, I vote Libertarian in every election, for all the good it does.