A Nationalist Party of America would hold resolute positions on more than just Health Care, Immigration, and Gun Rights, of course. Here are the issues... by Billy Roper
(libertarian)
Monday, December 14, 2009
Crime: The Nationalist Party of America will crack down on crime and restore public safety and confidence. We will free the police and courts from the politically correct straitjacket that is stopping them from doing their job properly. The liberal fixation with the 'rights' of criminals must be replaced by concern for the rights of victims, and the right of innocent people not to become victims. We support the re-introduction of corporal punishment for petty criminals and vandals, and the restoration of capital punishment for pedophiles as an option for judges in cases where their guilt is proven beyond dispute, as by DNA evidence or being caught red-handed. We would establish two degrees of guilt in legal judgements: "Guilty Beyond a Reasonable Doubt", which would allow an appeal, and "Guilty Beyond a Shadow Of Doubt", which would not allow appeal. We also want street gangs such as MS-13 to be listed as Terrorist Organizations, and be treated as such; they are coming into this country illegally to commit crimes, they are as big a threat to the US as Al-Qaeda.
Monetary Policy: The United States dollar will return to the gold standard, rather than existing as fiat currency. The Federal Reserve, currently a private banking and lending institution, will be nationalized and regulated according to our nation's best interests. Unsecured lines of credit, such as credit cards issued by banks, will be legally limited to interest rates not to exceed double the interest rates of secured lines of credit offered by the same institutions. Usury, the practice of charging exorbitant interest rates or fees on monetary loans, will become a criminal offense.
Taxation: The Nationalist Party of America calls for the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service, the Income Tax, and all Property Taxes. We support the creation of a national sales tax of 23% to fund the federal government. States would be limited to levying a state sales tax of no more than 5%. Family households of lawful U.S. residents would receive a "Family Consumption Allowance" (F.C.A.) based on family size (regardless of income) that is equal to the estimated total Federal Sales Tax paid. In addition, tariffs of 30% will be placed on all products produced outside the US. This tariff will apply to any imported product whenever it crosses the U.S. border, regardless of ownership of the product. Exemptions may be applied for in cases where products of comparable kind and quality are not produced in the United States.
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Posted By: Walt Thiessen
Date: 2009-12-14 02:54:22
A gold standard? God help us! Don't you realize that a gold standard is an excuse to debase the currency by pretending that the money supply is tied to gold, when in fact it's tied to paper? Under a gold standard, the government is permitted to issue as much new money as it wants to, so long as the price of gold remains the same. During the original gold standard, that price was $20 plus some change per ounce. The net result was that once the government, via the Federal Reserve, had exploded the money supply in the form of commercial paper and bank deposits, the whole thing came crashing to a halt in 1929. By 1932, the gold had disappeared from view (because of Gresham's law), creating the "justification" for FDR to seize all the gold.
A gold standard is the last thing we need. What we need is a free market money supply based primarily on precious metals of all kinds, combined with a law which makes it illegal for both government and private entities to debase the money supply by issuing more paper substitutes (or "receipts") than there is actual money. What we need is to remove the laws that make it illegal to compete with government money (or with money issued by government-decreed money monopolists such as the Federal Reserve). We need a money supply with built-in competition and a legal framework that bans currently-legal fraudulent activities such as lending money which doesn't belong to you and issuing currency backed by nothing by debt.
Posted By: Walt Thiessen
Date: 2009-12-14 03:09:28
I was so appalled by your gold standard proposal that I neglected the utter poison in the rest of your article. Taxes are instruments of tyranny, not of freedom. Consumption taxes are the worst of all taxes, becase they propose the idea that you do not have the right to eat food, breathe air, live in a house, or do anything else without paying a substantial tribute to corrupt money suckers in Washington.
As for the idea of "guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt", with no appeal, that's the worst claptrap I've heard in a long time. It implies that juries and judges can never make mistakes...a completely false assumption. I can think of no more sure way to guarantee tyranny than to eliminate the possibility of appeal, because under such a system all the corrupt politician has to do is to arrange for a kangaroo court to convict his political opponents "beyond a shadow of a doubt" and he will have effectively eliminated active opposition permanently.
So I assume that a currency based on paper, or some imaginary electronic media is better. No what we need is money that is directly backed by precious metals specifically gold. I would prefer that that money have value itself (gold or silver coin) or directly represent gold or silver or whatever that is held in the banks vault or the national treasury, at no time should there be more paper currency in circulation than can be directly exchanged for gold or silver.
As for guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt, this system is in use in Texas right now and is working well. It does not waste taxpayer money housing and trying repeatedly people who are obviously guilty. An example would be the Fort Hood shooter, should this man receive appeal after appeal?
"Usury, the practice of charging exorbitant interest rates"
Jct: Ezekiel declared that usury and interest, Could have a different effect, there was a simple test. If interest demanded is of something that can breed, Such interest is payable and not sin I concede. So if you lend a hundred head and ask to get two more, That might not be excessive lending that He would abhor. But if you gain all of the calves and he still owes you some, That would be judged excessive, that is more than maximum. And if the interest is on some silver or some gold, It's usury because there are no babies to behold! It's interest if principal can breed to multiply, It's usury if principal cannot so classify.
Nor do I, I oppose egalitarian welfare statism, but wouldn't use that label for myself, either. I simply answered the Nolan Chart questions as forthrightly as possible, and that is the result they gave to me. Labels matter little to me, compared to the substance of ideas.
