The common Sense Platform

Gun Control verses Public Safety

The constitution of the United States is very clear concerning this issue. As such we support the original intent of the founders of the United States Constitution. The founding fathers exercised their right to bear arms when they took control of the government and drove the British from our soil. With the revolutionary war fresh in their minds they drafted the second amendment to guarantee sound government through the hands, yes and guns, of its citizens. The right to bear arms is the ultimate checks and balances preventing the Government from overstepping its bounds. Additionally; every law abiding citizen deserves the right to defend their life and property from those that would harm them in any way. For those who would abuse their 2nd amendment right through criminal activity, they deserve to lose their right to own such weapons permanently.

Pro-Life Verses Pro-Choice

We desire to reduce the number of abortions by using common sense tactics. Our first goal is to establish a legal definition of when life begins. Through education, this definition can be later modified to earlier dates thereby reducing the number of abortions further.

Education should teach youth not to engage in fornication. To this end, much can be gained by legally enforcing the “PG-13” and “R” ratings on movies by making it a crime to allow youth to attend these shows without a legal guardian present to escort them through the door. Also, require producers of movies to have available at least 50% of their new movies modified with PG or lower ratings for family use; the family version can have a small premium cost of which should not exceeding 15% of the of original version. All movies must disclose in detail all reasons for any rating exceeding G. These reasons must be made available in detail on all packaging, movie posters, web sites, and movie trailers.

While we do not favor censorship, advertisers of the day are much too liberal in the use of soft porn in the advertisements that are seen by our children in magazine and television adds. The sexual revolution has long since died, and for good reason, we need to return to a time where family programming is available during prime time on public television so that our children do not have to grow up prematurely.

No Tolerance Policies

We have no tolerance for“no Tolerance Policies”. They must all be eliminated in all forms, from every organization and in every law.

Prohibition of Drugs

The current drug enforcement system is currently not working. We can’t even keep the drugs out of prison let alone off our streets. We need to reexamine this issue and come up with a better solution. Some current illegal drugs may be useful for pain reduction in the terminally ill. In addition, it may be beneficial to make these drugs available to research scientists. Confiscation of property due to the suspicion alone of drug trafficking should be eliminated. Having a large sum of cash on hand does not warrant having it seized by authorities until after being convicted of crimes through a criminal trial.

Environmental Policies

Initially, environmental law was highly beneficial. Today it is riddled in fraud. These policies must be reexamined using common sense and proper science.

Tort Reform

There are far too many litigations going on. Acts of stupidity should not be rewarded. Lawyers who bring obviously frivolous litigation to court should be disbarred with fines being levied on both lawyer and client.

Hate Crime Law

These laws lead to unequal protection under the law and should be eliminated. There should be no difference in penalty between someone who commits a crime out of hate and someone who commits a crime for the hell of it.

Pornography

Pornography is not free speech. It should be illegal to send unsolicited pornographic advertisements via email over the Internet. Extra penalties should be added if a picture comes up when the unwanted email is opened. All pornographic web sites must abstain from the use of unrelated keywords that cause Internet search engines to mistakenly find their web page for a completely unrelated search request. In general, pornography is harmful to society and should be discouraged. All pornographic web sites must use a key word that can be easily identified by a web browser or search engine thereby limiting accidental exposure to minors. Pictures must not be available until after a legitimate user has logged in to the web site. Banner advertisements must not contain pornographic images and must not be misleading. While pornography is bad, being subjected to it through no initiation on your part should be illegal.

Governmental waste

Similar to the private sector, deadbeat government employees should be able to be fired without an excess amount of red tape. We support presidential line item veto to reduce pork barrel spending. We also support a balanced budget using real accounting methods, not the current fiction used by the government. The purpose of the government is to protect its citizens from threats both foreign and domestic, and provide basic infrastructure. Anything beyond this is excessive causing over taxation of the public at large.

Taxation

We support either a consumption based tax or a flat tax: the preference being a consumption based tax. Penalizing the rich for their success is unfair. Income tax 1099 reporting should be eliminated if the amount is under $100. The government should not be armed with the knowledge of how much money a particular person has. Progressive taxation creates a bar separating middle-income people from becoming rich. Much of the tax code is unfair and needs to be revised. Exorcising a stock option should not represent a taxable event. Instead of IRAs, why not make all interest and capitol gains tax-free? This will encourage economic growth.

Definition of Adult

We like to see equalization here. Adults can be drafted, vote, drink, or do any legal activity. Either raise the definition of Adult to 21 or reduce the drinking age to 18. Our definition of “Adult” is someone who has a high school degree or equivalent and has reached the age of 18 years of age. People who do not or cannot get a high school degree or its equivalent are not responsible enough to handle the responsibilities of being an adult and therefore must not be allowed the privileges of being an adult such as drinking, smoking, or voting! This creates 3 classifications of people: minors (17 and younger), non-minors (18 and older), and adults (those responsible to make adult decisions).

Over regulation

We like to take a common sense approach to what is regulated. Requiring emissions controls at a bakery because yeast releases excessive amounts of hydrocarbons in the atmosphere is just plain stupid. Many prescription drugs don’t require a doctors permission to purchase; let the pharmacist who knows these drugs better than most doctors make some recommendations. Excessive regulation enslaves the masses in a needless ritual of frustration.

Welfare reform

This safety net is too often used as a hammock. Most of the welfare roles are occupied by unwed teenage mothers. We should place the burden of supporting minors and their offspring squarely on the shoulders of both sets of adult parents. People on welfare should be given an opportunity to improve their education, provide childcare, or other services to counter balance the aid given to them. Private organizations and churches may be better equipped to handle these problems.

Immigration reform

One of the main functions of a country is to protect its borders. The United States has failed miserably in this regard. The current influx of illegal aliens is causing great harm to the long term health of the country. Many pregnant Mexican mothers cross the borders in order to have their child delivered in the U.S. so that it can become a native U.S. citizen. Since a U.S. citizen cannot be deported, much effort is usually made to allow the mother legitimacy so that the child can be raised in the country of birth. We must not reward illegal immigrants by allowing mothers to enter the U.S. illegally to raise there children here, or to give amnesty to illegal's that have merely been able to evade capture for several years. While we do not go so far as to say that illegal's should be shot, the should be rounded up and returned to there country of origin until such time that they can gain access legally. Further, for those caught in the country illegally, legal immigration should be made more difficult if not impossible for them to obtain.