I like to think I won’t cover politics here, but I would be fooling myself. I will occasionally talk about it, and I know I will. I’m going to let my stance be known early to avoid any confusion.

I’m an independent. I don’t have the luxury of voting FOR anyone. I always end up voting AGAINST someone who will damage our country. Giant Turd vs. Douche Sandwich, as South Park so aptly put it. But if there was a policy I could completely believe in, it would be this.

1. Live within our means. This goes for every private citizen as well as the government as a whole. Quit spending money we don’t have. Our government had to borrow to give trillions of dollars that our country didn’t have to banks who lost money on defaulted loans. Loans. Borrowed money. If we didn’t all take out loans we couldn’t afford, the government wouldn’t have had to take out more loans to cover the banks.

The banks didn’t crash our economy. We did.

2. Everyone pays the same percentage in their taxes, with no breaks or deductions.

This is another one that people will hate me for, but I’m going to say it anyway. Taxes should not be a different percentage based on how much you make. It should be the same low rate for everyone regardless of how much you made or how you made it.  You can’t exclude charitable donations, you can’t exclude tuition, you can’t exclude interest on loans, or insurance principles.

You pay a certain percentage of your earnings in taxes, just like everyone else, and you get on with your day.

The amount the Government gets from those taxes is enough for operations if they cut things down.

3. Let The People Be Responsible For Themselves

This is the Social Don’tGiveAFuck. The government should not have ANY word on who can get married and who can’t, how much someone is paid, how much can be charged for a good, if you can get an abortion, if you can put your kid up for adoption, whether you adopt alone or with a partner, whether you can adopt with a partner of the same sex, whether the church can marry someone or can refuse to marry someone.

This should not be on the backs of the government. Change has ALWAYS started in the minds of the people long before the government gets involved. (Slavery was almost non-existent in both the north and south when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.)

The path we’re on now is dangerous. The government is expanding into people’s lives and taxing the next generation to death. If we start cutting it down now, we might recover as a nation.