Guccifer casts out Hillary

[kandrathe]

Ted Cruz isn't quite as brown as Obama, so he's okay. There is absolutely a racist angle to this.

So... Mr. Cruz gave his first ever $10 political donation to Sen. Jesse Helms. I can't help also to ascribe some guilt by association.

There is much of Cruz's libertarian fiscal positions I can endorse, however his domestic policy and foreign policy agenda don't align with my views much at all. He and I happen to be diametrically opposed on Net Neutrality -- meaning Hell will freeze before I'd vote for him.

Often he caves, like with his positions on marijuana legalization, or civil rights issues like same-sex marriage, to one of "leave it up to the States." Which could be read as, "You liberal Yankees can do what yall like, but the South will rise again." If he really does want to emphasize States, over Federal power, then he needs to make a better (libertarian) case, imho.

With drug legalization, or even prostitution -- we've obviously gone the wrong direction, and we need to shift to less incarceration of those who are exploited, and more incarceration of the people who are profiting by exploiting and victimizing people (causing harms). The federal government should deal with border interdiction, but not butt heads with States criminal codes. It would actually work better to make prostituting legal, but buying it illegal, and the opposite for drugs.

I just have these obscure goals I'd like to see corrected, such as straightening out the mess caused by Wickard v. Filburn, which set the precedence that the government can twist the commerce clause to even tell you what you can grow on your own land to feed to your own livestock.

I want a candidate who has more big picture ideas, and goals that will "flatten the bowl" -- that is, make it easier for common people to crawl out of cyclical poverty. And, to do so without relying on further income redistribution. For example, ensure that all income is taxed equally regardless of source (capital gains, inheritance, wages, gifts, etc), and that all taxes are applied equally without caps (i.e. social security, FICA). The reason we 99%'ers should chafe at the 1% is not that they have more, but that the LAWS are skewed to tax them at lower rates, and give them more breaks.

On the other end of the scale, everyone should pay. Right now, in the US, about 1/2 the people pay nothing. We can even keep it progressive, with 3-4 brackets. Even Denmark, that often cited bastion of social consciousness, the Arbejdsmarkedsbidrag is 8%. It is not that I want to dump on the poor, it is just that people will make decisions based upon their "skin in the game". A pig and a chicken were walking along a road, and the chicken exclaimed, "Hey! I have a great idea! Let's start a restaurant. We can call it Bacon, and Eggs." The pig replied, "I have one issue with that. It seems I would be committed, but you'd only be involved." If we all proportionally have our fat in the fire, we'd make more equitable decision on what should be done with taxes for the common good.