If you were told you could be President for a day, what would be the first thing you would do?
Firsts things first, and all, i'd change the farm bill to make a drastic if not complete cut of the federal subsidies for corn with slightly less drastic cuts for cotton. Then i'd allocate the monies freed from that, along with some of the billions and billions of tax dollars freed by ending failed 'war on drugs' to fund subsidies for farmers and SBA and large note loans for business interested in developing a domestic hemp industry.
The harder part will be deciding how to enjoy the prosperity after a global hemp industrial revolution blossoms...
Bring the troops home on every front: the middle-East, Africa and the drug war.
Well, if non US citizens were allowed to become President I would abolish the Federal Reserve, wipe out the imaginary paper debt and tell the private Fed to go....itself!
Throw all of Congress in jail. Abolish all Federal laws back to the Constitution & allow the States to set their own destiny. As was the origional intent.
president of what? i'm the president of my company and i'm good at it.
by Scott Belford 5 years ago
President Trump starts a trade war with the rest of the world say such wars are good for America. Everybody of intelligence tells him he is wrong. Now that reality is hitting Americans and American producers with huge loses, as expected and predicted, Trump wants to spend $12 billion to...
by Cassie Smith 12 years ago
Congress should get rid of oil subsidies. Not only should we get rid of oil subsidies, we should tax it more. Let's all write to our senators and congressmen to get rid of oil subsidies and tax oil more and subsidize alternate fuels.
by Kathryn L Hill 6 years ago
The Deep State vs All the Knowledge that we have Gained Regarding the Protection of "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" as given by "Nature and Nature's God." The Deep State is working behind the scenes to promote their own agenda which seeks to take away the power of...
by ptosis 12 years ago
Why are US taxpayers paying for billions of dollars in subsidies to oil companies?Big Oil says that if this form of corporate welfare ended that Americans will pay more at the pump - as if Martian taxpayers pay it instead of you and me - including the bike riders who don't own cars!
by Ralph Schwartz 5 years ago
The United States is the ONLY economy in the world improving right now. President Trump is taking the nation to places no one ever expected! Let’s all be thankful it’s him versus anyone else, or we’d be struggling like we did under Obama and Bush
by promisem 6 years ago
The White House just announced that Trump is killing subsidies to insurance companies for individual policies that keep prices down.Low-income people who get tax credits because of their lower income won't be affected. Higher income people who buy individual policies because they are retired or...
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