The VA's Negligent, Homicidal Government Union Employees
The U.S. government comprises elected "leaders"
(President, VP, CONgress), the elected then appoint heads of departments and INDEPENDENT AGENCIES who are unable to control these entities, and
employees. When the elected "leadership" is removed by vote, the employees remain.
The employees are removed and highly insulated
from their leaders by physical location, building and office quality, and managerially/socially by strong government employee unions. Contracts
between unions and the government are inherently written to favor the employees and their unions. GAO apparently is so unsophisticated or biased in
favor of unions (as opposed to their employer) that GAO is unable to negotiate a deal that favors government and gives government control over
employees.
Because of these contracts, rules, bureaucratic
"red tape", and the simple fact that all persons in the position of evaluating and judging whether an employee committed a termination offense are
union members and social cohorts, it is almost impossible to terminate a government employee. Treason (impossible to prove) or high insubordination
are the only reasons for termination. An employee can be insubordinate deemed to be argumentative and still remain employed.
I have offered the following strict rules for the
management of union employees:
CONgress must pass the National Right to Work Act (S. 391/H.R. 612)
negligent and non-performing employees can and should be fired
the contracts generally should be written with clauses that clearly state that government offers salary and benefits and, in return,
requires skilled performance. Government is not a Country Club or a party environment. Government Employees do everything but work during working hours
because they know the termination process (red tape and many appeals) will save them.
the contracts contain a lay-off clause for an agency with reduced importance or inactivity
the contracts contain a shortened length of service (20 years maximum). Those who have already exceeded 20 years must retire immediately
DECLARE A WRITTEN PHILOSOPHY AND CREED FOR THE ATTITUDE OF EMPLOYEES.
[Editor's Note: EMPHASIS below added by your friendly (and outraged after reading this article) Editor.]
When the majority of Americans look at Washington, they see a broken, bureaucratic system that far too often fails to defend their interests.
We all learned again recently that the consequences of that failure can be deadly.
The inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs announced April 12 that the VA Medical Center in Washington, D.C., which
serves more than 98,000 veterans,
was putting many of those veterans at “unnecessary risk”—risk stemming from use of dirty equipment, lack of necessary medical supplies, and the possible use of recalled gear.
What made this announcement especially noteworthy was that it was an “interim summary.” In other words, the inspector general believed the crisis at the D.C. VA was so bad that he couldn’t wait to conclude the investigation before notifying veterans.
When the majority of Americans look at Washington, they see a broken, bureaucratic system that far too often fails to defend their interests.
The solution is obvious, change the rules of appeal and limit the ENTIRE appeals process to prevent gaming the system. If a veteran dies
due to negligent homicide, then the ultimately responsible employee or group of employees should be fired, charged with manslaughter, and tried in court just like any civilian.
Only in government with all of the Union insulation and corruptive influence can an employee get away with murder—literally!
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We all learned again recently that the consequences of that failure can be deadly.
The inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs announced April 12 that the VA Medical Center in Washington, D.C., which serves more than 98,000 veterans, was putting many of those veterans at “unnecessary risk”—risk stemming from use of dirty equipment, lack of necessary medical supplies, and the possible use of recalled gear.
What made this announcement especially noteworthy was that it was an “interim summary.” In other words, the inspector general believed the crisis at the D.C. VA was so bad that he couldn’t wait to conclude the investigation before notifying veterans.
Since January 2014, the D.C. VA had 194 patient safety reports regarding “the unavailability of equipment or supplies.”
In June 2016, surgical staff used expired equipment during a procedure because of “the lack of an inventory management program.”
Of 25 sterile storage areas that were inspected, 18 were found to be dirty, leading the inspector general to note that the center “lacks assurance that sterile supplies maintained their integrity.”
To make things worse, the inspector general also found that more than 27,000 items purchased by the facility—worth more than $150 million—were unaccounted for as of March of this year.
These findings are truly horrifying. But sadly, they are nothing new for the VA.
[Editor's Note: It's nothing new for the entire federal government! Over 3 decades (at least) of failures directly related to Union employees could be cited. The VA
is the most horrific because of avoidable veteran deaths. If the Agency had an efficient and effective system of employee Human Resource planning with the right equipment and
the organizationally correct number of competent doctors, nurses, and orderly staff based only on realistically and statistically estimated patient loads, then those deaths would not
have happened.
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Dirty equipment, lack of proper procedures, and waste of taxpayer resources have been commonplace across the VA in recent years. But another common thread, which many veterans and their loved ones recognize, is the failure of the VA to hold its leaders accountable.
Brian Hawkins, the medical center’s director, was
relieved from his position
and placed on “administrative duty” after the inspector general released his report—though it is unknown what this designation entails, or whether Hawkins will have anything to do with patient care in the role.
If history is any guide, Hawkins will also continue to collect a substantial salary while performing his administrative responsibilities, and will likely retire with a handsome federal benefits package.
Recent experience shows this to be the case.
Sharon Helman, the director of the infamous Phoenix VA hospital, was fired in November 2014 following the waitlist scandal that broke nationwide in the spring of 2014.
Upon appeal, an administrative judge[Editor's Note: another UNION employee and cohort who is not even in the least impartial or objective—Kangaroo court!] upheld her firing not because she oversaw the creation of secret waitlists on which
veterans languished and even died,
or because she allowed
retaliation against whistleblowers
seeking to protect veterans, but because she improperly accepted Beyonce concert tickets from a lobbyist.
PHOENIX (AP) - A federal court has overturned the firing of the former director of the Phoenix VA Health Care System.
In a 34-page ruling, the Court of the Appeals for the Federal Circuit remanded Sharon Helman’s case to the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board for review and “appropriate action.”
Helman was fired in November 2014 following a scandal over long wait times for veterans seeking medical care and secret lists covering up the delays.
She sued the VA to win back her job, arguing that a key portion of a law passed in response to the wait-time scandal is unconstitutional and denies her an important step to appeal her firing.
The court ruled that after an administrative judge upheld Helman’s firing, she should’ve been allowed to appeal that ruling to the MSPB.
While federal ethics laws are important, [Editor's Note: REALLY? ] logic suggests being responsible for veterans’ deaths should be more of a terminable offense than whether a government worker was dancing to “Single Ladies.”
Associate Director Lance Robinson, Health Administration Service Chief Brad Curry, and hospital chief of staff Dr. Darren Deering were placed on administrative leave and
continued to collect their salaries for nearly two years,
despite the VA’s having enough evidence to suspend them at minimum.
The Phoenix example is not an isolated one, however. From
Tomah, Wisconsin, to
Central and South Texas,
VA employees of varying levels of seniority have violated the VA’s own rules—in some cases leading to the death of veterans.
While VA Secretary David Shulkin was right to quickly remove Hawkins from his position as director of the D.C. VA, this action is not enough.
Across the federal government, there is a near lack of accountability because it is next to impossible to fire federal workers. This needs to change.
A series of laws, initially created under the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in 1883, gave rise to the unaccountable civil service we have today.
[Editor's Note: While Obama(murder)care needed only full, 100% repeal, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
and United States Civil Service Commission needs Repeal and Replace!
]
The
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
(ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403) is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which may have been established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of
merit instead of political affiliation.
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The act provided selection of government employees by competitive exams,
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rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation.
It also made it illegal to fire or demote government officials for political reasons and prohibited soliciting campaign donations on Federal government property.
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To enforce the merit system and the judicial system, the law also created the
United States Civil Service Commission.
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This board would be in charge of determining the rules and
regulations of the act.
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The Act also allowed for the president, by executive order to decide which positions could be subject to the act and which would not.
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A crucial result was
the shift of the parties to reliance on funding from business,
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since they could no longer depend on patronage hopefuls.
While this law was passed to prevent raw political hiring and firing under the so-called “spoils system,” it has evolved to create a permanent,
entrenched class of bureaucrats who have job protection for life.
Under Pendleton, only a few, technical government jobs were made permanent in a federal government that was tiny in size and scope compared to today.
But changes under the Lloyd-Lafollette Act of 1912 and Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 added layers of protection that have extended dramatically.
[Editor's Note: The
Lloyd–La Follette Act of 1912
began the process of protecting civil servants in the United States from unwarranted or abusive removal by codifying "just cause" standards previously embodied in presidential orders.
It defines "just causes" as those that would promote the "efficiency of the service." August 24, 1912, § 6, 37 Stat. 555, 5 U.S.C. § 7511.
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, (October 13, 1978, Pub.L. 95–454, 92 Stat. 1111) (CSRA), reformed the civil service of the United States federal
government, partly in response to the Watergate scandal. The Act abolished the U.S. Civil Service Commission and distributed its functions primarily among three new agencies: the
Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the
Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), and the
Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA).
It seems OBVIOUS to me that Acts passed and codified in 1883, 1912, and 1978 need 'repeal and replace' given all of the changes since 1978.
We don't have a Soviet threat today, we have fantastic advances in technology, we have a HIGHLY BLOATED GOVERNMENT with many more employees than required given the technological advances.
Government has evolved into a work-welfare facility whereby anyone can get a job—AND NEVER LOSE THAT JOB EVEN FOR CRIMNAL ACTIVITY!
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Of the nearly 3 million federal employees, more than 90 percent have civil service protections that make firing them for even criminal offenses a nearly impossible process.
The problems at the VA are just the latest, sickening demonstration of the administrative state run amuck. Other agencies and departments have their
own problems
that stem from this broken system.
The laws originally created to promote merit today merely protect dysfunction and vice. While attempts have been made to bring more competition and
accountability to federal employment, these tools are rarely utilized.
What’s needed is a wholesale change to the civil service that moves government workers toward an “at will” system of employment.
President Donald Trump, who famously uses the catchphrase “you’re fired,” is in a perfect position to push Congress to make needed changes
to “drain the swamp” of the administrative state.
Several states,
such as Georgia,
have already successfully used similar reforms to improve their civil service, and it’s time the federal government receives the same treatment.
As this article’s co-author, Jarrett Stepman, wrote in a
policy paper
for the American Legislative Exchange Council, “By stripping the bureaucratic class of their special protections that few other Americans enjoy through comprehensive civil service reform, Trump can fulfill his inaugural promise, and ensure that when the people speak, Washington has to listen.”
Outrageous and near-criminal treatment of our nation’s veterans should be a wake-up call to the American people that immediate change needs to take place. This process begins by bringing genuine democratic accountability to the “fourth” branch of government.
A new Congress has been seated, and it brings the prospect of perhaps, maybe, potentially, in a possible way doing something about the runaway federal deficits. And in other news, several New York area bridges are for sale, which you can acquire at a bargain price.
Excessive Spending Destroys!
Feds Have a Spending Problem — DO NOT RAISE THE CEILING!
[Editor's Note: The 'Warfare/Welfare State' needs to sober up and get some financial planning/budgeting and establish spending priorities so the greatest country in the history of the world won't become a historical joke that the future looks back on and laughs. Cut Spending by 50%! Focus ONLY on necessary expenditures.]
Editor's Note: the following is from the Libertarian Party Platform
All persons are entitled to keep the fruits of their labor. We call for the repeal of the income tax, the abolishment of the Internal Revenue Service and all federal programs and services not required under the U.S. Constitution. We oppose any legal requirements forcing employers to serve as tax collectors. Government should not incur debt, which burdens future generations without their consent. We support the passage of a "Balanced Budget Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution, provided that the budget is balanced exclusively by cutting expenditures, and not by raising taxes."
[Editor's Note: If YOU think that WE need the federal government — as is, THINK AGAIN! I am absolutely sure that expenditure cuts — EVEN AGENCY ELIMINATIONS and REGULATION RESCINDMENT — can be found here! Of course, the feds have inflated the currency and choked-off nationwide production of goods and services (foundation of the dollar) with taxes and regulations such that the feds have parasitically destroyed the host (us) that feeds them.]
A recent survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania found that a majority of Americans are unaware of what is considered basic knowledge of the Constitution.
This information, which was released Wednesday, comes on the cusp of the 228th anniversary of Constitution Day (Sept. 17).
Here are some of the most surprising findings from the survey:
1 in 3 Americans believe the Bill of Rights guarantees the right to home ownership.
1 in 4 Americans believe the Bill of Rights guarantees “equal pay for equal work.”
1 in 3 Americans (31 percent) could name all three branches of the U.S. government and 32 percent could not identify a single branch.
1 in 4 Americans (28 percent) believe a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling is sent back to either Congress for reconsideration or to the lower courts for another decision.
1 in 10 Americans (12 percent) believe the Bill of Rights guarantees the right to own a pet.
25 percent of respondents agreed that “it might be better to do away with the court altogether” if it started making a lot of rulings most Americans disagreed with.
26 percent said when Congress disagrees with the Supreme Court’s decisions, it should pass legislation saying the court can no longer rule on that issue.
26 percent favored requiring a person to testify against himself in court.
46 percent opposed a prohibition on “double jeopardy,” or retrying a person for the same crime twice if new evidence emerged after a not-guilty verdict.
54 percent believe the government should not be able to prohibit a peaceful march down a main street, even if the marchers’ views are offensive.
50 percent believe the government should not be able to prohibit practice of a religion if a majority of voters thought that it held un-American views.
76 percent opposed giving the government “prior restraint,” the right to stop the press from publishing articles critical of the government.
The survey was conducted during the last few days of August among 1,012 adults ages 18 and up. Its margin of error is plus or minus 3.7 percent.
[Editor's Note: The transparent, superficial, theatrically staged, choreographed appearance of debate, disagreement, and stalled legislation always resolves into more government and less FREEDOM for us. Most laws enacted by the envious comrades of CONgress since the tyrannical dictatorship of Teddy Roosevelt have only increased the power of the federal government to the extreme detriment of individual freedom. Citizens and businesses can't be free and grow without stifling taxes/regulations or some agency's theft of their property without Due Process because of Big Brother's perversion of Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws passed to enable government theft.
We the People are told that America's current corruption of freedom is a "nation of laws". Since 1895 it is a corrupt fraudulent scam designed and developed to expand the powers of government under the guise of freedom and faux-legality. Two very good examples are the fraudulently ratified 16th Amendment (income tax) and the Federal Reserve Act (money from thin-air) signed into law 2 days before xmas, 1913 by Woody Wilson, another of the tyrannical dictators elected by progressives who 6 years later passed Prohibition (Volstead Act) over the veto of Woody Wilson. These domestic events are major contributors to America's imperceptible "slide" into totalitarianism.]
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[Editor's Note: what I have dubbed the "Legislative-Executive-Judicial Cabal" which the American People have caused by ignoring the generational transition from our Constitutional Republic to what now is, in effect, an "elected" dictatorship. Never mind who is elected. Never mind which bogus party is in power. The superficial, theatrically staged, choreographed appearance of debate, disagreement, and stalled legislation always resolves into more government and less FREEDOM. We the People still lose more freedom after every "emergency" or unnoticeably when CON-gress passes another general, open-ended law that enables the Executive (dictator) and its unaccountable agencies to formulate more freedom-restricting regulations (200 pages a day get posted to the Federal Register). The "Dictator's" agencies (police force) continue to pile-up more weapons to squelch uprising(s) when the People finally realize and understand their tyrannical government.
Currently, CONgress is just a group of socialists, progressives, and faux-conservatives (career politicians) that, on a daily basis, ignores the Constitution, many of their own past statutes, and cedes their responsibilities to the president ("elected" dictator). A comparison to the history of Rome becomes more and more credible with the Executive and its "featherbedded" lackeys gaining more power while CONgress sits back all fat-dumb-and-happy.
CONgress has made recent efforts to expose State Dept. failures in Benghazi (inept political leader), Fast-and-Furious gun-running (criminal AG), IRS 1st amendment violations, gov't union Veterans Administration fraud, and whining about Obama(Reid)-killer-Care, but these efforts are mostly politics as usual. Most "citizens" will forget about these infringements from our unaccountable, uncontrollable Executive branch with its tyrannical agencies staffed by socialist unions that extort "juicy" contracts from the "elected" dictatorship.
Most positions in the federal government whether elected, appointed, or hired are nominal, make-work jobs (confidentially) designed merely to grow government, bilk money from private businesses and citizens, and eventually fully transform America into a totalitarian state. When this happens, CONgress will have destroyed the economy and the country by their negligence and counter-liberty policies, and it will be almost impossible to Restore America. The 'Restore America' list is only a beginning too.]
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
James Madison, Federalist Paper 47, Friday, February 1, 1788
Anyone who believes this country is free is an idiot!
"Extortion and thuggery are good things when they're called law!"
Larken Rose
[Editor's Note: a Constitutional Convention is required to reverse the damage to freedom and liberty since 1900. This Article V was ratified by the participants at America's founding Constitutional Convention as an alternate path for repairing damage to freedom and liberty, a path for the People to restore damage caused by our failed representatives in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of a government designed to represent the wishes of We the People.
The States must "demand" a Convention and explicitly specify an agenda of:
laws to be repealed or modified,
Amendments to existing constitutional clauses that define the co-equal branches to further specify and define, and
new Amendments or statutes to be eventually ratified by States.
These Amendments should further specify and clarify the powers of the Legislature and Executive Branches. A good example is the definition of a "Bill".
A Bill should contain ONLY verbiage in regards to the topic of the future law. NO earmarks and NO unrelated sections or attacments.
Many past Bills sent to a president for signature contained unrelated but essential funding sections that rendered the Bill veto-proof when it warranted a veto.
CON-gress can override a veto if the Bill is deemed absolutely necessary by CON-gress.
If the Bill requires SPECIFICALLY related amendments, the CON-gress can "debate" (with its usual theater) and vote any new amendments.
The original text of the Constitution contains some very GENERAL clauses enabling both CON-gress and Executive branches to write laws and
regulations with their particular nuances expanding powers beyond intent. "Intent" may be gleaned from a complete understanding of
Federalist Papers.
An example of further specification and clarity for CON-gress should be a clear, very specific definition of the boundaries for the interstate Commerce Clause.
To restore freedom, liberty, and individuality - minimally these must be repealed:
Currently, even with computer-searching systems, the list of antiquated and/or obsolete statutes (and related regulations) is unwieldy.
These statutes must be invalidated unless there remains an applicable reason for retaining the law(s).
Aside from invalidating statutes, there are many regulations that are biased in favor of large enterprises (who buy support from bureaucrats)
at the expense of the competition, effectively repressing the Free Market. Any regulations not related to public safety that gives a financial advantage
to some companies over their smaller rivals must be rescinded to enable all companies with good consumer products to excel without burdensome regulations.
Additionally, the Convention should adopt for ratification at least these new Amendments or statute modifications:
clearly define and limit the role of government in regards to the term "general welfare",
Term Limits for CON-gress (12 years) including a 6 month limit on time residing in DC,
strict Prohibition of Lobbying (with a comprehensive definition of "lobbying"), and
a Balanced Budget Amendment to stop wreckless spending. During a CON-gressionally declared "war" (only after USA is attacked or attack is proven "imminent"),
deficit spending is permissible.
Restore America to its roots, i.e. Defense, State, Treasury, and Justice. Some Agencies are required like CIA and NSA, both respectively focused on defense against real foreign aggressors and not fictitious paranoid delusions of war mongers. Other agencies help where certain interstate communications are necessary. Most agencies like Agriculture, Education, DEA, IRS (eliminated with 16th Amendment) and many other listed here should be eliminated.
Restore the world Gold Standard with five contentious steps, and
Replace the IMF, World Bank, and Export-Import Bank with facilities that reflect the new Gold Standard, and
After decentralizing and economizing, if tax revenue is needed to fund all or part of the federal government, then implement the Fair Tax.
Regarding a Constitutional Convention itself, some of the available literature warns the reader about a possible "unstructured" and "mismanaged"
Convention that might propose and adopt amendments that could damage the Republic.
Possible, however, it is difficult to envisage how much more damage could done over what the L-E-J Cabal has already done.
If the Convention's agenda and rules of order strictly prohibit violation of the rules and enable a vote on unlisted Amendments AFTER all others are adopted,
then the Convention will be properly structured and managed. ]
Those who seek out positions of power tend to be paranoid, hypocritical wimps. Consider the issue of firearms. Politicians have many thousands of mercenaries (soldiers and "law enforcers") wielding all sort of deadly weapons--guns, tanks, missiles, drones, etc. Yet those same politicians pee themselves at the thought of the rabble owning semi-automatic rifles. From their twisted, elitist perspective, it's perfectly fine for them to swipe many billions of dollars from their subjects to spend on all manner of armaments, but if YOU want to possess a rifle, they think you should have to ask their permission, and register it, and make sure they always know what you own.
They also expect to be allowed to do things in secret, while claiming the right to spy on you and everyone else. As far as they are concerned, it's none of your business what they do, or what weapons they have, but it is their business to know everything that you do and everything that you have. Of course, they will pretend that their goal is to protect you from the "criminal element," but you'd have to be pretty dense to actually believe that. Why do you suppose they mostly whine about civilians having weapons that:
are used in only a tiny percentage of actual crime, and;
are the most effective types of weapon for resisting "government"
aggression?
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out. People who gravitate towards political office think they have the right to rule you. That's the job they applied for. And, of course, extorting you and bossing you around could be rather more difficult if you are better armed than their enforcers. So they hand out machine guns to their mindless thugs, but have tantrums about you having a 30-round magazine.
A new Congress has been seated, and it brings the prospect of perhaps, maybe, potentially, in a possible way doing something about the runaway federal deficits. And in other news, several New York area bridges are for sale, which you can acquire at a bargain price.
Excessive Spending Destroys!
Feds Have a Spending Problem — DO NOT RAISE THE CEILING!
Feds Have a Sewage Problem!
Becky Gerritson: "...government is out of control!" and "...our representative government has failed us."
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the IRS to detail under oath how some of former agency official Lois Lerner’s emails went missing, as well as any potential methods for recovering them.
Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court in Washington gave the Internal Revenue Service exactly a month — until Aug. 10 — to file a report, which he demanded as part of a lawsuit from a conservative watchdog, Judicial Watch, against the agency.
Judicial Watch is seeking a wide range of documents from the IRS, including Lerner’s emails, as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. It has complained that the IRS didn’t tell it that the agency couldn’t recover all of Lerner’s emails from 2009 to 2011.
Sullivan cast his ruling as a compromise, and a potential way for Judicial Watch to get answers without the court wading any deeper into the matter. Judicial Watch had asked the court to potentially compel IRS officials to testify about the lost emails, through a process called limited discovery.
The FairTax is a consumption tax unilaterally applied to all Americans at the same rate. For businesses, payroll taxes would no longer exist. Our exports would include a heavy tax for overseas buyers purchasing our products, while our imports would be cheaper for us to purchase. I'm not sure how this would affect GDP, as more information is necessary.
According to the FairTax website, "Under the FairTax, every person living in the United States pays a sales tax on purchases of new goods and services, excluding necessities due to the prebate." The prebate gives every legal resident household an "advance refund" at the beginning of each month so that purchases made up to the poverty level are tax-free.
So a family of four making something like $50,000/year should not have to pay taxes, thus preventing an unfair burden on low-income families. Since the FairTax eliminates both federal and payroll taxes, you get to keep your gross pay amount of each paycheck earned.
John Adams said, “Without [term limits] every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey”. That being said, here are some of the reasons we believe our country needs Term Limits.
Term Limits can help break the cycle of corruption in Congress. Case studies show that the longer an individual stays in office, the more likely they are to stop serving the public and begin serving their own interests.
Term Limits will encourage regular citizens to run for office. Presently, there is a 94% re-election rate in the House and 83% in the Senate. Because of name recognition, and usually the advantage of money, it can be easy to stay in office. Without legitimate competition, what is the incentive for a member of Congress to serve the public? Furthermore, it is almost a lost cause for the average citizen to try to campaign against current members of Congress.
Term Limits will break the power special interest groups have in Congress.
Term Limits will force politicians to think about the impact of their legislation because they will be returning to their communities shortly to live under the laws they enacted.
Term Limits will bring diversity of people and fresh ideas to Congress.
[Editor's Note: If you want to get rich, i.e. advance from a low paying government bureaucrat job on the local or state level, THEN GET ELECTED TO THE US CONGRESS (House or Senate). Once you're elected, it's easy to steal from your campaign contributions or the Congressional budget allocated to your seat and staff. You can go on a government-funded junket with 'lavishly' paid expenses. The list of ways to steal from the government while in office is inexhaustible. There are only a few Congressmen who left Congress just wealthy instead of a multi-millionaire. Of course, there are several who arrived in Congress as multi-millionaires and don't need to steal from the government.]
