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          the NATIONAL TAX REVOLT   -   CHAPTER TWO
          
          In order to Re-invent our government we must ...
          not only re-invent the WAY IN WHICH WE SEND OUR MESSENGERS
          TO CONGRESS, BUT WE MUST ALSO RE-INVENT THE WAY WE SEND OUR
          MESSAGES!
          
          THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN.
          
          We have put this article out in digitized format through all
          the Computer Networks of the world so that every computer
          user might eventually find it and help us RE-INVENT OUR
          GOVERNMENT.
          
          President Clinton has called for this action and Vice
          President Gore has given us the track to run on.  Vice
          President Gore has initiated a great deal of interest on
          what he calls the Super Computer Network.  He envisions, as
          do we, a time very soon, when all Americans have an input
          into the computer networks of America so that we can all
          talk to one another, trade ideas, software, thoughts on any
          subject.  Political ideas would be the first on our list.
          With a Network of political thought, we can all make this Re-
          invention of Government truly work and work right the first
          time.  Let's not make any more mistakes!
          
          The best way to guarantee we don't make any mistakes is to
          take the best thinking from everyone who has an interest in
          their country and put all the elements together into a giant
          new INVENTION, a technological marvel to make the whole
          world green with envy!  We can do it with your help.  After
          all, this is the essence of democracy, everyone getting
          involved.  We need the impact of democratic energy now more
          than at any time in our history.  Please heed this call.
          
          To help the President and the Vice President, they need 
          you to do one or all of the following.  
      
          1.  Make copies of this program and pass it around to
              friends, associate, family, etc.  

          2.  Upload the program to as many local BBS's as you can
              find.  

          3.  Subscribe to this magazine.  Use the 900#s to give
              us financial support and to learn the latest news
              from OUR PERSPECTIVE, not theirs.

          4.  Use the Long Distance Service we have contracted
              with.  In this way, you will save money on your
              Long Distance Bill and we will have an ongoing
              source of support.  This amounts to about $2.00
              per month from the SAVINGS.  So, you don't have
              to make any sacrifices and still support this
              idea.

          5.  Contribute in any other way you can think of.
   
              IF YOU ARE A PROGRAMMER, WE WILL NEED YOUR SKILLS
              TO WORK ON THE SUPER NETWORK.  Of if you have
              any ideas about how to improve this process of
              getting the bills over the networks and the people
              being able to see them and make comments on them
              and then being polled, let us know.  This is our
              next order of business!

          6.  Start the national media attention on this issue
              by calling your local radio or TV stations and
              telling them about this program.  Get a copy to
              them.  Write letters to your Congressmen and 
              Senators demanding that they start this right
              away!  Call your local newspaper and demand that
              they do a story on it, so that your neighbors
              can know about it.  

          7.  Most importantly, help us in any way you can
              think of.  If you have computer equipment you're
              not using it, please donate it.  If you have an
              hour or two of free time every week to give us, 
              call and make the offer.  But please don't offer
              anything you can't honestly stick to.  We need
              to take action now and we can't waste a minute
              with people who are unsure about their interest.

          8.  Print up some of the chapters in this magazine.
              Bring them to work, make copies.  Hand them out.
              Become a real revolutionary along with us.  Tell 
              your children about it.  Have them bring a copy
              to school.  See how much hell you can raise in
              your local church or synagogue.  Get people 
              discussing this great issue.  

          By doing any or all of the above, we can get this idea
          some national media attention very soon.  When the  
          story gets out in the open, we'll be taking names of
          those who are with us and those who are opposed to 
          the wishes of the people.  Those who are opposed to
          this idea, are not our friends, are not interested
          in Real Democracy and we will deal with them at the
          polls.  When we have rid ourselves of this vermin,
          THEN WAIT AND SEE THE PROGRESS WE CAN MAKE!  

          THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE WATCHING!
              

          If you will just spend a few minutes of your time each day
          discussing the ideas in this manual for change with your
          friends, associates, drinking buddies, you will start to see
          a powerful idea building in your mind.  Write it down and
          send it to us.  We will compile all the best ideas to be
          used in the RE-INVENTION OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.  This
          process itself will be utilized as PART ONE of this
          INVENTION.  The computer Networks themselves are the First
          Major Piece of the Puzzle.  By re-constructing it in ways
          that you may be aware of, we can make it simple for everyone
          in the country to learn about the issues of the day, give
          their input, hear debate, listen to experts, and then to
          finally give their vote up or down, 'Yea' or 'Nay'.
          
          By experimenting with this process, we can demonstrate to
          our nation that we have provided them with a better
          mousetrap.  Once this demonstration program is completed and
          everyone in the nation is familiar with its workings, we can
          make it an official institution of the United States
          Government.
          
          What does it look like?  This is like the story of the five
          blind men, who when confronted with an elephant each tried
          to describe what it must look like to the other four.  The
          first one, touching the trunk of the elephant said that it
          must be long and curvacious, like a snake.  The next one
          feeling the ears said that it must look like a big leaf of a
          tree.  The next one holding onto a leg, thought it must look
          like a big thick tree.  The next one, well, you get the
          idea.  None of us can tell what the exact shape of our Re-
          invented government will look like, but we each have a
          special insight to one or more of its parts.  We want to
          find out your feelings about the parts that must be used to
          create this Wonderful new device for ruling ourselves.
          
          I don't know THE FINAL SHAPE OUR NEW Government take either,
          but I can tell you what the results must be at the 'Business
          End'.  What comes out the other end should be a way to
          instantly record the votes of every eligible voter in
          America on any range of topics.  With this Referendum
          process, for want of a better word, in place, we could do
          things such as the following.
          
          1.  We could change the National Speed Law to 65 or even 75
          Miles per Hour.
          (Makes it possible for us to travel by car without the
          paranoia of being stopped by the Police for using our 
          cars the way they were intended.  Where did they get so
          much power?)
          
          2.  We could make it a simple misdemeanor to be caught with
          an ounce or less of Marijuana, punishable with a simple
          citation, and a fine.
          (Let's the police concentrate on more serious crimes.
           With this one little change in our laws, we could tax
           the illicit drugs, balance the federal books, and start
           to make inroads into real crime rates because without
           this issue to waste their times, the police could work
           on the murders and the rapes and the real crimes.  Drug
           abuse is a personal choice, and is victimless.  It should
           hold this level of priority in our crime system.  If kids
           want to experiment with getting high once in a while, what
           are we so afraid of as a culture?  They might not want to
           work?  When they get hungry, they'll go to work.  They
           might enjoy their lives a bit more than us?  Come on!
           Numerous studies have shown that the illegal nature of
           these drugs is what gives kids their first interest in
           them.)
          
          3.  We could make it a felony punishable by death or life
          imprisonment to attempt to influence legislation by giving a
          United States Senator or Congressman, his staff or anyone
          related to him any money or anything of value such as a trip
          or a gift of any kind.  (Obvious advantages.)
          
          4.  We could make it a felony punishable by death or life
          imprisonment without parole for anyone convicted of selling,
          or giving a gun or any lethal weapon to a minor.  And adult
          purchasing a gun would have to go through a criminal check
          in all fifty states before a gun store could release a
          weapon to anyone.  No gun could be sold until the check was
          complete no matter how long it takes.
          
          5.  We could prohibit any foreign aid money to be sent to
          any foreign countries unless in the form of humanitarian
          food aid for a period of 5 years, 10 years, or until changed
          by a similar referendum.
          
          6.  We could place a tax on gasoline and use the money to
          pay for research into solar and other alternative energy
          sources.
          
          7.  We could cut the tax on income to zero, or raise it to
          90% of incomes over 1 million per year, or a combination
          thereof.
          
          8.  We could Disband the C.I.A.  They have no more role
              in society with the end of the Cold War, and yet
              our government finds it very difficult to abolish
              any agency.  We still have government agencies in
              existence like the Rural Electrification Agency
              even though all of Rural America is now Electrified.
              (This would save the taxpayer, more than 10Billion
          dollars per year, and much international embarrassment.)
          
          9.  We could make it a felony, punishable by death or life
          imprisonment with no parole, for any lawyer to interfere
          with Environmental clean up projects given certain emergency
          designations from the EPA.
              (The only people standing in the way of environmental
          clean-ups are lawyers, out to make a buck, in complete
          contempt of the damage to your health and mine.)
          
          10.  We could impossible for the government to attemtp to
          legislate morality in several ways:
          
             A.  We could prevent the government from taking
                 any stand on abortion.  Abortion might be
                 a painful concept for many religious people to
          accept, however, what is even painful for anyone
          interested in government is the right of religious 
          fanatics to dictate morality to the rest of us.  This
          something each individual must struggle
                 with all their lives.  Some of the most
                 religious fanatics are caught with
                 whores everyday, so 'don't judge, lest ye
                 be judged'.
          
          
             B.  Make it a felony for any religious leader
                 to run for office.
          
             C.  Prohibit any political party from including
                 any moral issue on their platforms.
          
          
          11.  We could place a 4, 5, or 6 year limit on the
               terms of legislators and cap their incomes.
          
          12.  We could make it a felony punishable by death or Life
          imprisonment with no possibility of parole for anyone
          convicted of murder more than once.  The first time, 
          perhaps it was a crime of passion or of anger, but
          the second conviction proves that this person has 
          no regard for Human Life.  Anyone with no regard of
          Human Life must not be allowed to live and kill again.
          
                 
          13.  We could place a special tax on tobacco, hard drugs,
          hard liquor, etc., imported luxury items like caviar, French                  Champagne, Fancy Italian clothing, things that the average 
          person rarely uses, and use the money from the wealthy and 
          addicted to build more schools, give teachers a pay raise, 
          build more prisons, or all three!
          
          14.  We could put a Cap on federal spending.  No more
          deficits.  They spend what they take in, not a penny more.
          If there are cuts, everything gets cut in proportion to
          their size of the overall budget.  Same rule for increases
          in revenues.
          
          15.  We could close all military golf courses.
          
          16.  We could put a cap on federal limosines  and airplanes
          to one for the President, sell the rest of the fleet.  Make
          them travel on commercial airlines like the rest of us.
               (The Taxpayer currently puts out over 10 Billion per
          year on private jets and limos for Federal employees.  Since
          they never accomplish anything, very few trips seem urgent
          enough for them to travel like Billionaires.)
          
          17.  We could put the Kaibosh on all trade with China, until
          they put the Kaibosh on Slave Labor.
          
          
          18.  We could abolish all the Welfare Laws and replace them
          with something far more equitable to the unfortunate few
          truly down on their luck and the taxpayer, truly stretched
          to the max.
          
          ENOUGH EXAMPLES OF PROHIBITORY LAWS. LET'S LOOK NOW AT
          CREATIVE LAWS WE COULD ALL MAKE.
          
          
          19.  We could create a NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM THAT WORKS.
          
          20.  We could fix the infra-structure utilizing creative
          financing techniques.
          
          21.  We could improve public education.  (A recent survey by
          Educational Testing Service showed that roughly half of all
          American adults lack the basic skills of logic, reasoning,
          reading required to do their jobs.  Surely the schools, the
          major cause of this shocking survey, need major over-
          hauling.)
          
          22.  If we abolished the Welfare Laws, we could
          replace them with a new set of laws that would make it
          impossible for any American citizen with a family to be
          homeless and hungry, and yet save the taxpayer billions in
          waste, fraud and abuse.
               (I have some ideas on how to do that, but I would
          rather hear from others especially on this one because so
          much social engineering can be done with this one area of
          government.  In short, I believe we need to pass laws that
          enhance our species and our mother Earth and not destroy
          them.  Our current Welfare laws are actually destructive to
          the family and to the planet.)
          
          23.  We could create a system of People's Courts that are
          fast, easy and cheap for anyone with a problem to seek help,
          just like Small Claims Court relieves the Superior Court
          Calendar and clears up many small time issues without the
          interference and enrichment of lawyers.
               (I have ideas on how to do this, but want input on this
          one too.)
          
          24.  We could create a National Research and Development
          Fund from which anyone with a good idea could tap into to
          create products of benefit to Mankind.
          
          25.  We could and we should make it possible for anyone who
          wants to, to complete a college education.
          
          26.  We could and we should make it impossible for anyone to
          harm any other person in any way because of gender, race,
          sexual preferences or religious beliefs.
          
          27.  We could and we should make it easier for someone with
          a business to stay in business and keep people employed.
          
          28.  We could and we should have an energy policy that would
          make us far less vulnerable to foreign oil interests.
          
          29.  We could and we should have a policy as regards the
          build-up of nuclear weapons anywhere in the world.  We
          should pass a resolution that made it clear to any other
          country that any attempts to develop nuclear weapons will be
          met with total destruction of the city and surrounding
          countryside involved in such development.
          
          This would be a very controversial and austere measure.  But
          it is arguable that without it, the planet is doomed to a
          major catastrophe where many nations have the atomic bomb
          and use it to such an extent that weather is changed all
          over the world, crops in America could fail, the air could
          become unbreathable, even if this country were untouched by
          any actual bomb.  The fallout is global.  We know that now,
          therefore, someone has to take a global stand on any more
          possibility of something happening.  Already, Humans cannot
          inhabit a portion of the former Soviet Union the size of
          Pennsylvania.  This, due to one very small nuclear power
          plant having a little fire a few years ago. Much of Europe
          was infected with the radiation and entire herds of animals
          had to be destroyed.  The experts expect cancer to kill
          thousands of people in the next several decades due to this
          one little incident alone.  Imagine the destruction if Iran
          and Iraq went into a nuclear war.  Or if Pakistan and India
          had such a war.  Or Israel and Iran.  Or Serbs vs. Croats,
          or Russians vs. Mongolians, or China vs. India, or Canada
          vs. Mexico.
          
          A national resolution of the will of the American people
          might be the only way to scare the rest of the world away
          from developing such a hellish scenario.  Even if another
          nation calls our bluff and we actually had to destroy a
          couple cities in Iran or Iraq to make an example of someone,
          I think the world would be a much safer place from that
          point on.  I said this one would be controversial!  I must
          say that I abhor violence.
          
          But personally I love Humanity more than I abhor violence.
          And I cannot sit idly by while the threat of our species
          becoming extinct as the dinosaurs grows daily.  Think about
          it!
          
          I believe the threat of any city being destroyed by the
          American nuclear arsenal would be sufficient to stop any
          further development and would never have to be used and
          would be the only positive use of such awesome power.
          
          No one, not even God, gives us the right to dictate to other
          nations, however, on the other hand, not even God has
          decreed that there shouldn't be someone willing to take this
          awesome responsibility.  I think the American people, of all
          people on Earth, are uniquely qualified for the job.
          
          (Your input is greatly appreciated on this one too.)
          
          These are just a few ideas I thought up one day.  Imagine
          how powerful the Human Mind is when melded with the 
          combined brain power of all the thinking people in
          the nation as a whole!  It's truly staggering.

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