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Krog for NY Senate?
Yes, you heard it here first.
Krog is running for Senate. The U.S. Senate. From New York, no less. In a web-only campaign, he will run for the seat presently held by Chuck Schumer. No campaign contributions, no expenditures.
Yes, it is a long shot campaign, but if Rudy Giuliani and George Pataki can't even be coerced into running for the Gillibrand seat, then they certainly aren't running against Schumer. So enter Krog, the man man enough to join the fray!
The official campaign song? "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC.
Who is with us? For if you are not with us, you are obviously against us!
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If elected to the U.S. Senate I will put forward new legislation.
As my first proposal, a new law guaranteeing every American family to one tax-free home. The home, in my view, is the anchor that helps to hold families together. Eliminating all property taxes on a family's primary residence would strengthen families all across American.
Should older Americans who have paid off their homes over the course of their lives be forced to move simply because they cannot afford the taxes levied against those homes? Of course not.
I will call this bill the 'American Tax Shelter Law'.
If elected, I would also call for the abolishment of the Department of Education, and the National Labor Relations Board. Unions would still be allowed to form, but all laws currently existing that force management to deal with them would be rescinded. State governments would become solely responsible for handling the education of minors in their states.
In the video above, you'll see my plan for abolishing the DoE -- I will personally lead a battalion of Apache helicopters in a concerted assault on the building itself. We will launch Stinger missiles at the building and reduce it to a molten, twisted ruin.
After our inevitable victory, a
marblegold statue of me will be erected and bejeweled and placed atop the ruins of the Department of Education. The statue will depict me as riding a polar bear (it should be rearing back on its back legs) while brandishing a samurai sword.All elementary and middle schools that were named after Barack Hussein Obama will be renamed after Charles Nelson Reilly -- because schools should be named after someone important.
Wait... this is for New York Senate?
My bad.
-Krogenar
I like your tax shelter law. I also like your aggressive approach to education, but the statue would cost too much in tax payer's money. Cheaper and less ridiculous than many endeavors you read about from the senate, however. Instead of a statue, how about a cardboard box with a really nice magic marker drawing of you on it?
Instead of a statue, how about a cardboard box with a really nice magic marker drawing of you on it?
A big cardboard box? It would still be bejeweled, right? I can see where you're going with this...
If my settling for a less magnificent statue will put even fifteen dozen more bulldozers at work tearing down the DoE, then I still think I deserve my statue.
In all seriousness, I'd love to see conservatives champion some basic laws that explicitly limit what the government can tax. They would try to find some way around the law -- maybe taxing the land itself, or raising taxation on basic services like sewage, or garbage pickup far beyond what those services actually cost.
While I'm at it -- I would propose another law. The Public Employee Compensation Reform Act. It would require the state government of New York to perform a statistical survey of what private sector employees are paid in benefits, salary, etc. The law itself would make sure that public employees would be paid an amount comparable to what private sector employees are paid -- by law the state would not be allowed to go beyond 5% of the statistical norm.
Part of the reason why New York State is in a constant state of economic distress is that our government employees are grossly overpaid and over-compensated. If the state is ever going to get to any semblance of fiscal order, this one problem must be fixed. This would mean re-negotiating existing contracts with public employees.
Ordinarily it would be wrong to change a contract, but the Obama administration set a new precedent when it suggested creating a special tax just for CEOs that Obama felt were receiving large bonuses. So that's what we could do -- create a special 'government worker' tax, to 'take back' some of the ridiculous benefits packages that were handed out.
-Krogenar
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