My plan to "fix" america?

[Mitch]

Here would be my plan to "fix" the United States if I was president between the years 2016-2024. It's not all perfect, and please note that I'm a highschooler so go easy on me. But tell me what you think.

I've dubbed this the "Mitch Plan." My first act as president, if I'm even allowed to interfere with this, would be to establish open primaries so that independents that lean right or left are allowed to participate in choosing the presidential candidates. To also help boost voting participation, I'd start "Mail Votes" and "Online Primaries" in which you can vote for candidates online, which would include a video of their debates, and summaries of what they support, (same for the mail, excluding the video) and people who were apart of the part of that party or independent could vote via mail or online. I'd also set up a third party organization that does is not an elected position or appointed by the government to determine voting districts fairly. The goal is to create a less radically divided government, that can compromise.

The second part would be to attack the budget issues. I'd close all but a very few key military bases overseas, and decrease the active military further. Then, for an entire year, if this is possible, I'd stop all government spending, social programs, infrastructure improvements, scientific management except for government workers like teachers and the military, and utilities. Instead, I'd make it up to the states to decide if they are going to have welfare or infrastructure improvements for that year, and that it would in no way come from the federal government. So it'd be up for the people of the state to decide those issues. With this decreased spending would come a decreased need for taxes, and so I'd lower taxes hopefully promoting consumer purchases and companies to start employing again. After that, whatever money the government did earn would go to paying off our debt, if it would help at all. You would still receive these improvements, but it would be up to the states, not the federal government, to pay, if the states and people want these improvements anyway. To fix healthcare, I'd simply make health insurers compete in the market like homeowners or auto insurance. I'd also go back to the gold standard.

Finally, I would try to make america, if only temporarily, like it was in the 1800's industrial revolution by promoting american factory system again, only with minimum wage set and safe conditions and stuff. I would try to promote american industries creating the things Americans buy, by setting a high tariff on many imports that would compete with these new factory productions. I would also set a "Overseas Penalty", if this doesn't already exist, that would tax companies per worker for each person they hire who is not an american citizen. This would count for illegal immigrants and overseas workers. I'd also say that after certain date, to be considered an american citizen, you have to be born in a U.S. territory and be born to at least one legal U.S. citizen. I'd also make it where to apply for welfare, you must prove you are a citizen of the U.S., and if you are caught illegal in the country more than 3 times, you are no longer eligible for U.S. citizenship ever. This only applies to people born in the U.S, and not those coming here legally.

I know there are more issues but this would be the start. What do you think?
@Charlie: good thing we don't let stupid teenagers like me ruin the country, lol.

[Jason]

Maybe if America actually followed the constitution it would be a better place. The founding fathers would be very disappointed if they saw America the way it is today.

[Paula]

First, the President does not control the timing/manner of primaries.

[Billy]

If the America hating obama is allowed to finish his second term, There won't be any America to save.

[Loreal]

Wow! You are my hero! Please run for President of the U.S. if you wish to that is
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We'd be very fortunate to have all the plans you write of, implemented. Amazing for a teen since what you write shows intricate and vast knowledge of our two party failed system, and Libertarianism. Ron Paul believes in basically the same plans as you. I'm wondering who you have learned from? Thank you and best wishes whatever your age.

[Comicbook Reader]

Driving people into more poverty won't solve the problems in the US.

[mrjonessr41]

Soon as you expose your plan to "increase voter participation" Republicans will oppose you to death.

[cooingKnight767]

Your grasp is as good as most adults have. Still, you'll not benefit from an uncritical pat on the head, will you? Kindly indulge me while I refuse to condescend to the "stupid teenager:"

> Do you not know what a Primary is? If I'm NOT part of YOUR organization, why do you want ME to vote on who YOUR organization will support? And, no, the President has no lawful authority on this.
> Why do you support voting by "people" who don't even exist?
> States set-up electoral Districts. You don't get to.
> There is no inherent benefit in compromise. Suppose I want to rob you of all your cool stuff, burn-down your house, rape your wife and daughters then kill you all. In contrast, you want me to NOT do those things. Can you propose a good compromise - and justify it?
> Of course the budget needs attention and we can probably spend a lot less on defense - but since it's just about the only Constitutionally REQUIRED spending, why do you START there?
> On reverting things to the States: Most of that stuff is ILLEGAL for the Federal government to get into, so why "for a year?" Figure-out how much taxation is going to those things, END that portion of taxation and let the States deal with those programs - as the law has always required.
> Good idea on health care. It's illegal for the Federal government to be in this and that involvement has CAUSED every complaint you ever heard.
> Sound money is good. Gold is the stablest currency, but it has its own problem. An IRON LAW of economies is that the sum nominal value of "all the money" always equals the sum price of "all the stuff." To SUSTAIN a sound economy requires the money supply MATCH productivity. As the World record gold production never even hit a 2% yearly increase, a "real gold standard" means the ECONOMY can only grow at 2% or less - so if the POPULATION grows, the "per-person economy" has to SHRINK.

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Don't try to "make America" anything - except for a country whose government obeys the law. The aggregate knowledge everyone has about what "everyone" wants and needs will always vastly exceed yours - which means your central plan WILL make things WORSE, not better.
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> Higher minimum wage : Higher unemployment rate. It's an extremely strong link and low-skill, low-education, low-income workers (and prospective workers) are always hardest hit.
> High tariff on many imports = "Force Americans to pay more without getting more."
> It sounds like you want to end naturalization. By all means stop giving preference to CRIMINALS and giving them FASTER legal status BECAUSE they sneaked-into the country, but it's a bad idea to close-off access for people who want to present themselves for lawful entry, whether they intend to remain or not.
> You solved the welfare thing when you gave it back to the States.

The Founders knew what they were doing. We went from nothing and nobody to prominent superpower in about a Century with an extremely minimal Federal government.
In the following Century filled with "Progressive" and almost completely unlawful expansion of Federal interventions, we've failed to keep pace with the rest of the World. Our "progress" for the last Century has been mainly a matter of technology - growth in ways that clearly have nothing to do with our government nor even "America" itself per-se, as the rest of the World saw those same kinds of improvement.

Consider three major ideas:
1) An exhaustive list of everything the Federal government may lawfully undertake can be typed on one page. The ENTIRE Constitution fits on a single newspaper-sized page. For the Federal government simply to OBEY THE LAW requires it relinquish MOST of what it does, not add MORE things. We have a word for government that won't obey the law - Don't be a tyrant.
2) Liberty is a MORAL imperative. Going beyond the U.S., it should be obvious that mankind created government, and therefore that government CANNOT legitimately be the people's manager. It is their AGENT and cannot possibly have any power not delegated to it by them. As one cannot delegate a power one does not oneself have, no legitimate government can do what ordinary persons cannot.
3) Take special note of that one point I separated-out from the others up above. This is ALWAYS a problem with ALL forms of compulsory central planning. This is why it's CRITICALLY important government be limited to balking force and fraud. ANY further government action in an economy MUST replace the judgement and wishes of "everyone" with those of a bureaucrat, or at best a small group of bureaucrats. It is LITERALLY true that unless their knowledge of what EVERYONE wants and needs exceeds that same knowledge held BY "everyone," they are GUARANTEED to make "everyone" WORSE-off. ONLY the planners themselves have ever benefited from central planning - and they have always done so at the EXPENSE of everyone else.

[Gamer]

My plan:be the next Ronald Reagan

[Warren T]

YOU WANT TO FIX THIS COUNTRY, GO BACK TO THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM THAT WAS CREATED BY WHAT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS DID