Home of The Brave: A 1960's Political RP

[Latvijas Otra Republika]

just for ooc spite lol

What?

I've been building up to a proposal like this with the Governorship RP, I was always going to put out an alternative to a minimum wage hike/public works the moment one was put in the docket.

I was taking the piss mate

[Deblar]

we really need more liberal democrats, and conservative republicans. also we still need leadership positions such as speaker, vice president, majority leader ect.

Brown Jr. could be considered one, but he's not in office yet

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Warszawski will not support any bill that increases the minimum wage

well as it turns out, sofia's proposal would eliminate it.

[Sao Nova Europa]

Here is a more free market friendly yet more comprehensive alternative to the PROGRESS Act, liberals, conservatives, republicans and democrats all welcome to co-sponser.

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Official Name: Federal Relief Ensuring Entrepreneurialism Act

Nickname: FREE Act

Overview: This legislation is intended to, while decreasing bureaucracy and remaining balance-neutral, address the chronic poverty experienced by millions within these United States while encouraging and aiding in their self improvement within the context of free markets and free enterprise. It accomplishes this through the creation of a Federal Minimum Income Program and an Employment Education System. This legislation additionally seeks to relieve the burden of wage price controls on unemployed people unable to find work, small businesses who are driven into stagnation or closure and the lower income individual's who's consumption disproportionately consists of those products negatively effected by wage price controls, by simultaneously phasing out the federal minimum wage as redundant.

Sponsor: Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY)
Co-Sponsors:

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Section 1: The story of American prosperity has been the story of free individuals exchanging goods and services with each other through the mechanism of the market and freedom of enterprise. Yet, despite the free market organization of the economy, the great depression taught us that a failure of government to provide a means for the less fortunate to be insulated by fluctuations in the market can lead to immense suffering and freedom harming strife. The federal government therefore, must to provide the best possible means to ensure the maximum possible freedom of markets and enterprise, so individuals may reach the highest heights and lift the nation with them, while also protecting the citizenry from the lowest lows. In response to the great depression, a web of well meaning, though tangled programs were implemented to provide economic security. However, this tangled web has unnecessarily increased the size of the federal bureaucracy and has lead to an unnecessary degree of central planning by the government, something that has the tendency to pull nations toward tyranny. We must, therefore implement a remedy to this conundrum that is most compatible with American ideals of freedom of free markets and free enterprise.

Section 2: Establishes a Federal Minimum Income Program, paying all citizens either employed or in education for the purpose of future employment, with an income below the poverty line or sufficiently close to the poverty line, payments to bring them above it, with a gradual phase out intended to preserve the pursuance of higher incomes.

Section 3: Rolls redundant welfare programs into the expenditure of the Federal Minimum Income Program, while phasing out the federally mandated minimum wage gradually over the course of the first year of the implementation of the Federal Minimum Income Program.

(a) Converts existing federal unemployment insurance expenditures into funds for a Employment Education System tasked with providing education to unemployed individuals for the purpose of gainful employment.

Section 4: Additional funding for this plan to make it balance-neutral is to be procured by an adjustment of the federal income tax that maintains the current income level distribution of the burden of taxation.

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This bill is then honorably presented to the Senate for consideration in order to change welfare and anti-poverty measures to improve the United States Law and is backed by Sofia Fraser.

Jackson could give it his political support/blessing (not vote, since he ain't in Congress), but he would require for this program to replace some of the current welfare programs rather than being funded by tax hike.

[Dalmannia]

we really need more liberal democrats, and conservative republicans. also we still need leadership positions such as speaker, vice president, majority leader ect.

Brown Jr. could be considered one, but he's not in office yet

Well in that column, I believe we’ve also got Juan Matamoros, Richard Douglas, Floyd Lahde, William Oswald, Elmer Stevens and Thomas Stoltzman. Currently the liberals in the House don’t seem to be putting up much of a fight against that one Dixiecrat, which is troubling, but I’d say we’ve still got a few significant individuals who could contest the segregationists in the upcoming elections (hopefully without absolutely fracturing the party). Otherwise, we might see a migration towards the GOP.

[Sao Nova Europa]

Brown Jr. could be considered one, but he's not in office yet

Well in that column, I believe we’ve also got Juan Matamoros, Richard Douglas, Floyd Lahde, William Oswald, Elmer Stevens and Thomas Stoltzman. Currently the liberals in the House don’t seem to be putting up much of a fight against that one Dixiecrat, which is troubling, but I’d say we’ve still got a few significant individuals who could contest the segregationists in the upcoming elections (hopefully without absolutely fracturing the party). Otherwise, we might see a migration towards the GOP.

Meanwhile in the GOP we've got lots of liberals, one or two fiscally conservative/socially liberals republicans and only one conservative (Jackson). We really need more conservative Republicans.

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Here is a more free market friendly yet more comprehensive alternative to the PROGRESS Act, liberals, conservatives, republicans and democrats all welcome to co-sponser.

(Image)

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Official Name: Federal Relief Ensuring Entrepreneurialism Act

Nickname: FREE Act

Overview: This legislation is intended to, while decreasing bureaucracy and remaining balance-neutral, address the chronic poverty experienced by millions within these United States while encouraging and aiding in their self improvement within the context of free markets and free enterprise. It accomplishes this through the creation of a Federal Minimum Income Program and an Employment Education System. This legislation additionally seeks to relieve the burden of wage price controls on unemployed people unable to find work, small businesses who are driven into stagnation or closure and the lower income individual's who's consumption disproportionately consists of those products negatively effected by wage price controls, by simultaneously phasing out the federal minimum wage as redundant.

Sponsor: Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY)
Co-Sponsors:

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Section 1: The story of American prosperity has been the story of free individuals exchanging goods and services with each other through the mechanism of the market and freedom of enterprise. Yet, despite the free market organization of the economy, the great depression taught us that a failure of government to provide a means for the less fortunate to be insulated by fluctuations in the market can lead to immense suffering and freedom harming strife. The federal government therefore, must to provide the best possible means to ensure the maximum possible freedom of markets and enterprise, so individuals may reach the highest heights and lift the nation with them, while also protecting the citizenry from the lowest lows. In response to the great depression, a web of well meaning, though tangled programs were implemented to provide economic security. However, this tangled web has unnecessarily increased the size of the federal bureaucracy and has lead to an unnecessary degree of central planning by the government, something that has the tendency to pull nations toward tyranny. We must, therefore implement a remedy to this conundrum that is most compatible with American ideals of freedom of free markets and free enterprise.

Section 2: Establishes a Federal Minimum Income Program, paying all citizens either employed or in education for the purpose of future employment, with an income below the poverty line or sufficiently close to the poverty line, payments to bring them above it, with a gradual phase out intended to preserve the pursuance of higher incomes.

Section 3: Rolls redundant welfare programs into the expenditure of the Federal Minimum Income Program, while phasing out the federally mandated minimum wage gradually over the course of the first year of the implementation of the Federal Minimum Income Program.

(a) Converts existing federal unemployment insurance expenditures into funds for a Employment Education System tasked with providing education to unemployed individuals for the purpose of gainful employment.

Section 4: Additional funding for this plan to make it balance-neutral is to be procured by an adjustment of the federal income tax that maintains the current income level distribution of the burden of taxation.

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This bill is then honorably presented to the Senate for consideration in order to change welfare and anti-poverty measures to improve the United States Law and is backed by Sofia Fraser.

Jackson could give it his political support/blessing (not vote, since he ain't in Congress), but he would require for this program to replace some of the current welfare programs rather than being funded by tax hike.

I mean, could probably make the language clearer, but this is intended to replace all federal welfare (I don't consider social security to be welfare, though.)

[Newne Carriebean7]

Sharp: "hold my cigar I'm going to commit political suicide and switch to a republican"

then the GOP would have a dixecrat, or a dixiepublican, a racist old elephant instead of an ass.

[Sao Nova Europa]

Jackson could give it his political support/blessing (not vote, since he ain't in Congress), but he would require for this program to replace some of the current welfare programs rather than being funded by tax hike.

I mean, could probably make the language clearer, but this is intended to replace all federal welfare (I don't consider social security to be welfare, though.)

Jackson will give his blessings then. Speaking of which, Jackson could also have a discussion with Governor Fraser too. He should give a call when he can.

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

I mean, could probably make the language clearer, but this is intended to replace all federal welfare (I don't consider social security to be welfare, though.)

Jackson will give his blessings then. Speaking of which, Jackson could also have a discussion with Governor Fraser too. He should give a call when he can.

Yeah, Governor Fraser would give him a call upon hearing of him endorse Senator Fraser's proposal.

Any how, the theory with the tax increases is that any that might have to happen would still be a net improvement for the private sector due to the FREE Act funding it's self with previously existing welfare programs, and doing away with the minimum wage (modified now to be at all levels after a year of the program).

the provision to increase taxes is just there to make it sure it doesn't have a net effect on the budget, but realistically if that's still a deal breaker for Jackson, Sofia would drop it to get the endorsement.

[Sao Nova Europa]

Jackson will give his blessings then. Speaking of which, Jackson could also have a discussion with Governor Fraser too. He should give a call when he can.

Yeah, Governor Fraser would give him a call upon hearing of him endorse Senator Fraser's proposal.

Any how, the theory with the tax increases is that any that might have to happen would still be a net improvement for the private sector due to the FREE Act funding it's self with previously existing welfare programs, and doing away with the minimum wage (modified now to be at all levels after a year of the program).

the provision to increase taxes is just there to make it sure it doesn't have a net effect on the budget, but realistically if that's still a deal breaker for Jackson, Sofia would drop it to get the endorsement.

It would be preferable to do away with the provision of increasing taxes, or at the very least mention that any increases in taxation will be temporary and indirect (instead of direct) taxation, until government spending/waste can be cut to make up for any shortfalls.

[Flowerdell]

Watching House Liberals "trade" with ideas the literal Nazi's threw around a decade and a half ago is certainly....something.

[Sao Nova Europa]

Watching House Liberals "trade" with ideas the literal Nazi's threw around a decade and a half ago is certainly....something.

You can always join the GOP. I mean, lower taxes, better management of government programs and an anti-communist foreign policy should be an easier thing to swallow than Nazi Dixiecrat bills.

[Hopal]

Watching House Liberals "trade" with ideas the literal Nazi's threw around a decade and a half ago is certainly....something.

Richard Douglas really doesn't want to make enemies but it looks like he is failing at that.

[Flowerdell]

Watching House Liberals "trade" with ideas the literal Nazi's threw around a decade and a half ago is certainly....something.

You can always join the GOP. I mean, lower taxes, better management of government programs and an anti-communist foreign policy should be an easier thing to swallow than Nazi Dixiecrat bills.

At this point you're not exactly wrong.

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

I personally invite all senate liberals to cross the floor to the GOP.

[Newne Carriebean7]

Watching House Liberals "trade" with ideas the literal Nazi's threw around a decade and a half ago is certainly....something.

You can always join the GOP. I mean, lower taxes, better management of government programs and an anti-communist foreign policy should be an easier thing to swallow than Nazi Dixiecrat bills.

No, join Sharp's in the works third party of CARP.

It's for state's rights, racism and mostly involves giving money to Mississippi and the Deep South.

may or may not be a ponzi scheme.

I personally invite all senate liberals to cross the floor to the GOP.

Sure, get them outta the Democratic Party, let the Dixiecrats manage the Democratic Party, we'll take good care of the coloreds...

*evil laugher from Senator Sharp*

[Sao Nova Europa]

I personally invite all senate liberals to cross the floor to the GOP.

Would be fun if liberals cross into GOP and Jackson becomes its nominee. A conservative at the head of a liberal party.

But then again, the tax cuts proposed by Jackson so far are basically the ones that Kennedy passed, so...

[Flowerdell]

You can always join the GOP. I mean, lower taxes, better management of government programs and an anti-communist foreign policy should be an easier thing to swallow than Nazi Dixiecrat bills.

No, join Sharp's in the works third party of CARP.

It's for state's rights, racism and mostly involves giving money to Mississippi and the Deep South.

may or may not be a ponzi scheme.

I personally invite all senate liberals to cross the floor to the GOP.

Sure, get them outta the Democratic Party, let the Dixiecrats manage the Democratic Party, we'll take good care of the coloreds...

*evil laugher from Senator Sharp*

The Dixiecrats form their own party, and the liberal northern democrats form their own party. Now that would be a recipe for disaster.

[Deblar]

No, join Sharp's in the works third party of CARP.

It's for state's rights, racism and mostly involves giving money to Mississippi and the Deep South.

may or may not be a ponzi scheme.


Sure, get them outta the Democratic Party, let the Dixiecrats manage the Democratic Party, we'll take good care of the coloreds...

*evil laugher from Senator Sharp*

The Dixiecrats form their own party, and the liberal northern democrats form their own party. Now that would be a recipe for disaster.

indeed

[Deblar]

I can't say that I like that Douglas guy in congress allying himself with Broussard

[Dalmannia]

Watching House Liberals "trade" with ideas the literal Nazi's threw around a decade and a half ago is certainly....something.

You can always join the GOP. I mean, lower taxes, better management of government programs and an anti-communist foreign policy should be an easier thing to swallow than Nazi Dixiecrat bills.

The real tests of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party at this point may be whether they are able to 1) Stick to their ideals in Congress instead of trying to achieve legislative success through realpolitik alliances with the segregationists, 2) Defeat Sharp or Boone in the primaries, 3) Win the election, assuming they’re able to defeat any Dixiecrats in the primary.

If they can’t meaningfully stand up against the segregationist wing of the party or find substantial success themselves over the next year, many liberals and moderates may as well join the GOP.

[Sao Nova Europa]

You can always join the GOP. I mean, lower taxes, better management of government programs and an anti-communist foreign policy should be an easier thing to swallow than Nazi Dixiecrat bills.

The real tests of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party at this point may be whether they are able to 1) Stick to their ideals in Congress instead of trying to achieve legislative success through realpolitik alliances with the segregationists, 2) Defeat Sharp or Boone in the primaries, 3) Win the election, assuming they’re able to defeat any Dixiecrats in the primary.

If they can’t meaningfully stand up against the segregationist wing of the party or find substantial success themselves over the next year, many liberals and moderates may as well join the GOP.

I wonder how conservative Republicans will react to this. Of course, so far the conservatives on the Republican side tend to be conservative primarily on fiscal and foreign policy issues, so a compromise between conservatives and liberals should be easier to achieve than a compromise between Dixiecrats and liberals.

[Flowerdell]

The real tests of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party at this point may be whether they are able to 1) Stick to their ideals in Congress instead of trying to achieve legislative success through realpolitik alliances with the segregationists, 2) Defeat Sharp or Boone in the primaries, 3) Win the election, assuming they’re able to defeat any Dixiecrats in the primary.

If they can’t meaningfully stand up against the segregationist wing of the party or find substantial success themselves over the next year, many liberals and moderates may as well join the GOP.

I wonder how conservative Republicans will react to this. Of course, so far the conservatives on the Republican side tend to be conservative primarily on fiscal and foreign policy issues, so a compromise between conservatives and liberals should be easier to achieve than a compromise between Dixiecrats and liberals.

If there was a flood or an exodus of liberal dems into the GOP, given the fact that the battle right now in the GOP is between the conservative wing and the more liberal wing on one hand, it might trigger a huge shift to the liberal wing of the party. Perhaps even create a snapshot of the modern day democratic party, liberal republicans on the right-wing side and progessive dems on the left-wing side. Now all under one banner.

Conservatives might occupy the position of Blue Dogs, an increasingly minor part of the broad coalition, if they allowed such a thing to happen.

At which point some conservatives might see it as entryism in some form.

[Dalmannia]

The real tests of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party at this point may be whether they are able to 1) Stick to their ideals in Congress instead of trying to achieve legislative success through realpolitik alliances with the segregationists, 2) Defeat Sharp or Boone in the primaries, 3) Win the election, assuming they’re able to defeat any Dixiecrats in the primary.

If they can’t meaningfully stand up against the segregationist wing of the party or find substantial success themselves over the next year, many liberals and moderates may as well join the GOP.

I wonder how conservative Republicans will react to this. Of course, so far the conservatives on the Republican side tend to be conservative primarily on fiscal and foreign policy issues, so a compromise between conservatives and liberals should be easier to achieve than a compromise between Dixiecrats and liberals.

Even the more conservative Republicans such as Jackson just tend to focus less and attempt to avoid speaking too heavily on civil rights issues, but I imagine most socially liberal Democrats would find this to be infinitely more reconcilable than the antebellum-era concepts being defended by the very vocal likes of Sharp or Broussard.