The One Development Thoughts 2005-01-26

I support gerrymandering of local political boundaries if it groups people by political ideology. Local law can then be used get whatever the local population wants but the local population must then pay the costs associated with the law through local tax revenue.
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The foreign policy of the United States should be similar to that of Gort the robot in the movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. State to other nations of the world that as long as their problems are kept within their borders and no threats of harm or actual harm is committed to others outside of their borders they will be left alone. As soon as a nation threatens another nation, the world community will take action to prevent that threat from being acted on.
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Any religion that promotes the harm of another or must use force to grow its membership is a false religion. Any individual member that harms another in the name of that religion or its deity is still guilty and responsible for the harm.
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The simpler, the better. Our government is not simple and it definitely could be better.
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There is no excuse or justification for intentionally harming another or for not defending yourself from harm.
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If you feel that someone is harming you then you must either defend yourself or separate yourself from the harm and seek assistance if needed.
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Any harm to another is ultimately a drain on the entire community and harms everyone.
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If the people in your community believe that crime pays but you do not, Move!
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Being overly emotional is not a good trait for making decisions that are important to you. Strong emotions are a great motivator to action, but the action taken must be based on the facts and historical precedence.
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Every time a section of laws is to be modified by legislation the entire section should be made simpler by combining and clarifying the statute instead of just adding to it.
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Help those that want to help you and resist or avoid those who would harm you. People that survive by harming others need the submissive from which they can feed. If these people are allowed to thrive it is guaranteed that your community will be crime ridden and impoverished.
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Crime always leads to poverty; low incomes do not always lead to crime. Communities such as the Amish may not have incomes comparable to the average society but their crime rates are lower than the average society.
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The actions of every citizen either contribute to the community or take from the community. As a society we should promote the people who contribute and discourage those that harm.
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In a perfect society what each person would expect from others would be equal to their contribution to society. In a bad society people always expect something for nothing.
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There are only two choices in every decision. Do what is best for everyone or try to get what you want no matter who it hurts.
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If your god tells you to harm others to get your way then you worship a false god.
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The One Law is right because there is no situation where The One Law can be proven to be wrong.
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Force the government to compete with the private sector for all services. Allow individual opt outs for any government provided service and allow a tax credit to the individual for the per person cost of that service.
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If the goal of publicly funded education is to provide the best education possible for the children of the community then the parents should be provided with a voucher for each child that they have in school and the parent should choose which school their child will attend. If the parent chooses the local government school the voucher would be accepted with no additional tuition fees. If a private school is selected the parent would be responsible to pay the additional tuition fees as necessary. The local school board would determine the value of the voucher based on community input.
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The government is just a tool of the citizens that live within that political boundary. Representative governments are normally used to help the people of the community but if special interest groups gain too much power and influence the government can be used to reward one group in the community at the expense of another group or to coerce one group in the community for the benefit of another group. Always stay on guard that your government is doing what is best for everyone. If not, reduce the power the government through tax cuts.
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Every person knows when they are harming another whether they want to admit it to themselves or not.
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The government should never pay a citizen to be good because it never works. The government should never punish a citizen that is not harming anyone just because other citizens feel what they are doing is wrong.
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It does not matter how much personal information that someone has about you as long as the government will defend you if that information is used to harm you.
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I think that a government database of all of your personal information would be a great thing if you were given the ability to control what information is available and who is allowed to use it. This database could store biometrics for positive identification for public transactions.
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All government social services should be controlled and provided by the local government. A social service budget should be determined at the state and federal levels and the money equally divided by the number of people and distributed to the local government based on local population.
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If you do not believe in the goal of civilizing the whole world, I ask, Why Not???
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Every local government should determine the net tax flow either into or out of that local community and publish the results. This would allow all local communities to determine what government programs are working and which are not.
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A centralized form of government will always create tension between communities because the central government will have to develop “one size fits all” solutions that will never work for everyone. Unequally shared revenues from the central government will also cause tension between communities and always leaves everyone feeling screwed. All shared revenue should be evenly distributed.
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There should be no laws that apply to the individual citizen above the local level. If the majority of the local citizens cannot understand the laws that apply to them they will be unable to comply and if the local community does not agree with the law it will never be followed.

Social Security Individual Opt Out

Please explain to me why I should be punished by the government for being a hard worker and for being responsible for the needs of myself and my family. One option that I have not heard being discussed for the revamping of Social Security is an Individual Opt Out of the Social Security system with a Quit Claim for contributions to this point and benefits in the future. I have been contributing to the Social Security system for 26 years but I would be willing to lose all of the money I have contributed so far if I could quit paying the 12.4% of my income right now and direct that money as I would like.

The Social Security system, with contributions and benefits as currently configured, is a complete rip-off for me and others like me. I am required to contribute 12.4% of my current income and I have been contributing since I was 15 years old. I intend on working until I am physically or mentally unable to work. I also pay for both long term and short term disability insurance so that if I become incapacitated before retirement I am protected. I contribute another 6% of my income to a 401k fund so that I can reduce my work when I get to retirement age but I will probably never formally retire. Social Security benefits are severely limited for people that continue to work so I will probably never even get back what I put into Social Security.

I realize that if I and others like myself left the system there would be a shortfall in revenue to pay the current retirees. That money should be provided by general tax revenue and cover only those people that would like to be in the system. This revenue could be included when the current Income Tax system is revised to a Flat Income Tax or a National Consumption tax.

The government should never penalize a citizen for hard work and personal responsibility and that is what the current system does. This rewards the irresponsible at the expense of the responsible which is just Socialism by a different name.

One Law Development Thoughts 2005-01-24

Limit the total direct annual government benefits to any non-disabled citizen to the defined poverty rate in the area that they live.
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It is easy to make someone grovel at your feet if you are rich or ruthless. It takes work to get others to pay you what you feel you are worth.
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We will become a civilized society when we expect the uncivilized to grow up and become civilized.
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If you do not have a solution, sit down and shut up.
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Freedom to do what you want to do requires that you also do what is best for everyone and take responsibility for any harm that you do to others.
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To promote government responsibility the taxation system should be simplified to a Local, a State, and a Federal tax that is collected by whatever type of tax the constituency decides would be best. The voters should then use a referendum every four years minimum to increase or decrease the tax rate by up to 1% per year.
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If there is enough money to be made people will be willing to break any law. Decriminalizing something reduces the profit margin for providing that product or service and automatically reduces the violence and the law enforcement costs.
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One Law Constitutional Amendment: No citizen may be jailed unless they have harmed another against the will of the victim.
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We need a defect tracking system for government. Software and product development groups use defect tracking software to record and track progress on problems and solutions.
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Every society and community in the world has a majority of people that believe in the concept of The One Law but many of them do not feel that they should hold others responsible. For any community there must be majority that is providing the labor and/or creativity to survive. The people that violate The One Law are a cancer on society and if they become the majority the society will fail.
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Hate is a strong emotion that should be used against those that harm others for their benefit or pleasure.
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If the solution to a problem is the best for everyone then there will always be a profit to everyone that contributed to the solution.
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If you allow the government to make all of your decisions for you then you are saying that the government knows better than you on what will make you happy. In this situation you will always feel that the government is not doing enough for you.
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The government cannot provide a product or service to you at a cost that is lower than a private company. The only reason to ask the government to provide you with a product or service is because you want the government to force others to pay for that product or service with taxes.
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The primary mission of the United Nations should be to punish any nation from threatening or harming another nation no matter how large or small the nation. Instead the United Nations has become an international income redistribution scheme that takes from the governments of the prosperous nations and gives to the governments of the impoverished nations without any determination or judgment of the cause of the poverty.

The primary cause of the poverty in the majority of these impoverished nations is a corrupt government that the United Nations is propping up with aid money that is not even reaching the people. All international aid should be directly distributed to the people of the impoverished country by the relief organization to ensure that it gets to the people and prevent it from being misused by that nation’s government.
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Any harm or threat of harm by the government or people of one nation against another should be defended by all nations.
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You can be doing what you think is best for another but it is their decision whether they appreciate that assistance. You are not helping if they do not want that help.
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Thinking is very hard work. If you do not feel that thinking is hard work then you probably have not been trying very hard.
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Civilization requires only One Law: Never harm another for your benefit or pleasure and always defend yourself from harm.
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Any local government that abides by the One Law should be allowed to take precedence over any higher level of government.
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Everybody can have a feeling on the solution to any given problem. It takes work to find the facts required to develop the best solution to that problem.
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A feeling about what would be the best solution to a given problem is the same as a guess.
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One Law Independent: Someone who: allows others to find the best solutions to their problems, helps others when they need and ask for help, and holds others responsible for the consequences of their actions.
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The person that is the closest to the problem is usually the person with enough information to develop the best solution to that problem. Local governments are closest to the people and should assist citizens when need help but the citizens must expect to pay for that assistance. If the problem affects everyone they should be willing to help pay for the solution.
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The Palestinians should not be given a nation of their own until they decide that killing others that are different from themselves will not be tolerated and that the borders that they have been offered are satisfactory.
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Democrat's New Mascot

The ideals of the Democratic party have changed significantly since the days of JFK. The party needs a new name and mascot to better reflect the current party.



The Bitch Party

No New Ideas, No New Solutions, No Counter-Proposals, Just Bitching and more Bitching.

The Democrats previously implemented solutions have all failed (ie. War on Poverty, Social Security, etc.) and the main political ideal of Democratic Socialism has been proven to FAIL whenever it has been tried. (Europe, USSR, etc.)

The Democratic Party should embrace The One Law and it would thrive once again.

Mission Statement

The One Law - Never harm another for your benefit or pleasure and always defend yourself from harm.

My goal is to create a better and simpler form of goverment based on The One Law with the help of anyone who is interested.

The One Law blog will concentrate on mostly short statements of thought as I develop the projects. As time goes on I will be developing a website with different projects towards this goal including a wide ranging One Law Political Position Paper, One Law Government Responsibilities, and a possible freelance congressional campaign (if there is any interest).

Thank you for your interest.

Kevin