TheMadAsshatter — Roleplayer Guild

I see this thread has been ded for awhile. Allow me to change that, since I'm having a brief moment of clarity in my political views. What would I call myself? I don't know, neo-pseudo-libertarian-centralist-anarchist-neutral party, I really don't know, and I don't care. My political ideology is versatile and fluid, thus I will not say I subscribe to any one particular mindset. If I had to say, I would go with moderate libertarian, but I don't know for sure if that's what I'd be called. **Government:** To keep it brief, the less it's involved in the lives of the people, aside from enforcing the law, collecting taxes, and keeping up with environmental regulations, the better. **Taxes:** The tax code, at least in the US is in DIRE FUCKING NEED OF SIMPLIFICATION!!! Holy shit, it's like trying to read a language that hasn't been conceived yet. Until that's happened, I'm not even going to begin to try to make sense of what's going on with that. **Religion:** This is more a societal thing than anything that the government can control, but I like the way most of Scandinavia does it. Religion should be considered a private matter, one that is generally thought of as rude to bring up in casual conversation. A friend of mine had a great analogy for how religion should be treated. It's like genitalia. If you have it, cool, but you don't show pictures of your swampy bits to everyone you know and tell them yours is the best. Other than that, yeah complete separation of church and state. **Defense:** Do I think our defense budget needs to be cut? When it rivals the next three countries' defense budgets combined, yes, but it is generally a good idea to have a strong military in case things do go tits-up. I'd say keep our defense budget about 1/3 higher than the next country's. **Education:** BIGGEST PRIORITY! Seriously, tuition rates in the US are rivaled only by the UK, I'm pretty sure. That shit needs to change, along with the public schooling curriculum throughout primary and secondary school. And also, stop making it a requirement to say the pledge of allegiance during school, Jesus H Christ! **Guns:** As far as ownership, I think you should be allowed to own whatever guns you can under current laws in most of the US, minus fully-automatic weapons and anything bigger than a .50 cal. What I would change is that you would have to take a safety course and gain a license for owning a firearm of any type, along with a psych evaluation to determine whether you are capable of harming yourself and others. If you pass the requirements, you get a license, guaranteed. As for registration... I would say yes, but look what happened in every country occupied by Nazi Germany in WWII. They had records of people who owned guns, and the Nazis used them to either confiscate the guns or kill the owners. **Healthcare:** Mental healthcare specifically needs to see a big improvement, in my opinion, along with the way people in general perceive mental health issues. As for healthcare in general, the only fair way I see healthcare working is if it's funded completely by taxes. You don't have to worry about insurance companies fucking you over a table, and it's always there if you need it. Those who need it use it, those who don't won't. **Business:** Aside from safety and health standards, small business needs to be left the hell alone. Same with big business, with the addition of preventing monopolies or oligopolies from forming. Bailouts? Fuck 'em, if a company goes under it goes under. It was their own damn fault somehow, anyways. **Abortion:** Ehhh... I'm a bit torn on this myself. I lean towards the school of thought that there comes a point when an unborn child goes from a weird blob of cells to a living being, and until that point, abortion is fair game. The bad thing is there's no good way to judge that, so as a general rule, I would say anytime before 15 weeks is okay to have an abortion regardless of the circumstances. After that, your time is up, and you're having the damn kid unless it threatens your life. **Same-Sex Marriage:** I fully support gay marriage, but for the sake of neutrality, I'll say that the government should stay out of it completely. There are plenty of religious institutions that support gay marriage, just make sure you pick one of them when you plan your wedding. **Drugs n Shit:** Pot? Sure, make it legal, but treat it like an alcohol/tobacco hybrid. Gotta be 18 to buy it, don't drive stoned, and you can only smoke it on your own property or in places that specifically allow it. Also, bring the drinking age down to 18, along with (on a slightly unrelated note) stupid 21 year old requirements for jobs and shit, FFS! I'm sure there are other things I can delve into, but that hits on all of the big issues, I'm pretty sure.

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