Comments on: Clunker Healthcare Bill Protects Private Insurers Damages Democracy http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/03/clunker-healthcare-bill-protects-private-insurers-damages-democracy/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Wed, 08 May 2013 02:53:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tonyandoc http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/03/clunker-healthcare-bill-protects-private-insurers-damages-democracy/#comment-65694 Tonyandoc Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:52:47 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=15445#comment-65694 If change is to happen – and it is far from guaranteed – then the need is to focus on ONE ISSUE that, when highlighted and investigated, would shine a bright light on most of the other dysfunctional areas in out decaying democracy.
Luckily the Supreme Court has provided just such an issue in the “Citizens United” decision. It is both high profile – due to the ongoing publicity and pledges by politicians to “do something” about it, and populist.
The “something” we could do – or at least advocate – includes:-
1. Establish Residency and Domicile metrics for corporations, giving the highest ranking to those that are 100% US owned and controlled and make the data publically accessible.
2. Corporate tax laws should be altered to alloy only those with the highest ranking to fully write off political expenditure against US taxes.
3. Expenditure by corporations other than those with the highest ranking would be treated as taxable profits in the US.
4. Corporate governance laws should restore the power of shareholders (this is already being advocated) and require pre-approval at general meetings of political advertising budgets.
5. American citizens should be encouraged to purchase small holdings in a broad range of corporations and show up at general meetings. The right to call general meetings should be vastly expanded.
6. Remove limited liability for awards against corporations arising from litigation related to political activity.
7. Require members of Congress to display primary corporate backers on their promotional literature, websites and TV advertising.
The central theme is to start a popular movement to have “grassroots” regulation of corporations and claim back control over our lives from them.
I’m sure the list above could be expanded.

]]> By: bozh http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/03/clunker-healthcare-bill-protects-private-insurers-damages-democracy/#comment-65687 bozh Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:21:45 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=15445#comment-65687 Well, some lands are developing a semitimocratic- and others a timocratic-democracy.
US had been developing a plutocratic democracy for the last three or four centuries. But US development is near-complete or actually completed.
Eventually, when the timocrats once establish a timocratic society, US fascist democracy wld come under enormous pressure from within to mend its ways.

Some pressure exists already judging by what so many people say on dv, ich, td and other sites. So, keep it up and ignore people who complain that we are merely complaining. In any case, that`s all we can do! tnx

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