and investment or development programs should be set up for both corporations and other concerned individuals to help defund bloated nation-state defense bureaucracies on a regular basis.
Alternatives to status-quo in America since WWI are not just a thing that America ought to be able to afford to permit to be realized, but should also be seen as smart short and long term investments in an America where so many people and parts of the economy have been underdeveloped by the top-heavy defense spending of the U.S. government for decades.
On the other hand, America and Americans can buy more love and support for more pro-American help around the world--if America allows the conscience of thousands or millions of its citizens to invest in the re-development of the US and the world rather than for allowing the military option to ever again get as out-of-control as we have seen it become over the past century.
Now is the time for America to realize this sort of re-prioritizing America’s spending, investment, and development taxes.
First, we need to support the steps suggested by the National Campaign for Peace Tax Fund. Second, we need to contact our congressmen and senators to get this attached to passable legislation in January 2009—possibly to the REBUILD AMERICA LEGISLATION that should create public works and empower Americans after our dark winter of bad national priorities.
By the way, here is a list of current sponsors of this bill:
Rep. John Lewis [GA-5] - (introduced 4/18/2007)
Rep. John Conyers, Jr. [MI-14] - 4/18/2007
Rep. James P. McGovern [MA-3] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Sam Farr [CA-17] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Jim McDermott [WA-7] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Ron Paul [TX-14] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Julia Carson [IN-7] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay [MO-1] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Keith Ellison [MN-5] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Chaka Fattah [PA-2] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey [NY-22] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson [TX-30] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich [OH-10] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton [DC] - 4/18/2007
Rep. James L. Oberstar [MN-8] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Jose E. Serrano [NY-16] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey [CA-6] - 4/18/2007
Rep. Rush D. Holt [NJ-12] - 5/8/2007
Rep. Danny K. Davis [IL-7] - 5/8/2007
Rep. Anna G. Eshoo [CA-14] - 5/14/2007
Rep. Tammy Baldwin [WI-2] - 5/17/2007
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings [MD-7] - 5/23/2007
Rep. Peter A. DeFazio [OR-4] - 6/15/2007
Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez [NY-12] - 8/2/2007
Rep. Donna M. Christensen [VI] - 10/9/2007
Rep. Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. [GA-4] - 10/22/2007
Rep. Michael M. Honda [CA-15] - 10/29/2007
Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. [IL-2] - 11/13/2007
Rep. Edolphus Towns [NY-10] - 11/15/2007
Rep. Jerry Moran [KS-1] - 11/15/2007
Rep. Donald M. Payne [NJ-10] - 1/15/2008
Rep. Carolyn C. Kilpatrick [MI-13] - 1/28/2008
Rep. Fortney Pete Stark [CA-13] - 3/4/2008
Rep. Melvin L. Watt [NC-12] - 3/14/2008
Rep. Corrine Brown [FL-3] - 4/1/2008
Rep. Albert Russell Wynn [MD-4] - 4/1/2008
Rep. Barney Frank [MA-4] - 4/15/2008
Rep. William D. Delahunt [MA-10] - 5/7/2008
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [MO-5] - 5/20/2008
Rep. Barbara Lee [CA-9] - 6/5/2008
Rep. Bobby L. Rush [IL-1] - 6/12/2008
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [TX-18] - 6/17/2008
Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski [PA-11] - 7/9/2008
Rep. Linda T. Sanchez [CA-39] - 7/23/2008
Let’s get Americans empowered and build a greater country this 2008.
NOTES
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR PEACE TAX FUND, http://www.peacetaxfund.org/
Peace Issues, http://mcc.org/us/washington/issues/peaceissues/
Project on Government Oversight, http://www.pogo.org/
Wheeler, Mya, LESS THAN SNEAKY RECRUITMENT EFFORTS, http://mcc.org/us/washington/issues/peaceissues/recruitment.html
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