mrstickball said:
So how do you enforce this 'anti corporate greed and corruption'? |
A few thoughts ...
Government involvement in the economy is bound to happen and is not (necessarily) a bad thing, but the role of the government should be more like that of a referee than a participant. Essentially, their focus should be on fairness (think in the context of sports, ie. equality of opportunity) and preventing dangerous activity that creates excessive risk of injury (fraud, corruption, etc.)
Restrictions should be put on campaign finance ... Individuals, corporations, unions and charities should all be able to make political donations, but there should be a uniform cap on their total donations in a year; and donations to a party or a third party cause should count against the same cap. The cap should be high enough that people can freely support the candidates and causes they want, but low enough that organizations can't buy influence by funding every candidate in every election.
The tax code should be simplified and handled in a non-political fashion. In my opinion it would ideally be a flat tax, but even in a progressive taxation system the rules should be set up in a way that is free of political grandstanding; for an example of progressive system free of political grandstanding, you create the divisions based on something measured (normal curve of income distribution) have the tax bracket variations based on an increase over the base rate (+0%, +5%, +10%, etc) and the only thing that can be adjusted is the base rate to meet revenue needs.
