US national policy issues looming after healthcare?

The most patriotic thing possible is Paying Your Fair Share of taxes, so it can do it's work. The Gov. doesn't need anything more from You as a Citizen, other than to not cause problems that raise costs.

Kennedy's tax cut from 90% to 75% on the top tax rate was actually a Tax Increase revenue wise, because he eliminated all the loopholes that the rich were using to avoid paying any taxes.

And vote! If you don't vote, then someone else is selecting the gov't that will rule YOU.

In fact let's eliminate the personal income tax and go to national sales tax

California is going on the record listing Glyphosate (Roundup Weed Killer, present in almost all wheat and many other grains in America) as a carcinogen:
https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/crnr/glyphosate-listed-effective-july-7-2017-known-state-california-cause-cancer#_ftnref3
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/28/health/california-glyphosate-cancer-chemical-listing/index.html

While Monsanto was fighting in court to block California from doing this, they successfully lobbied the US Department of Agriculture to stop testing for the presence of Glyphosate in our food supply! Good ol' USDA not even measuring a poison where reputable science has shown a problem to human health, and where lawsuits are pending at state level to list it as a carcinogen. That is criminally negligent on the agency side, and it is a criminal conspiracy on the company side to harm millions of people for a financial motive.

Glyphosate is used in almost all wheat, corn, soy, and gluten-free grain substitutes in America, and even products labeled Organic commonly test with glyphosate poison residues. We are all bombarded with it in North America. The agency in charge of agricultural practices to protect our food supply bent to the will of a profit machine while knowingly exposing us all to death and chronic health problems. We are literally being killed by our food under the aegis of a lax regulatory environment.

This is a PERFECT example of several major weaknesses and failures in our national government:
we need federal regulations to protect the health and safety of our citizenry and to protect the environment in which we must live. Citizens and private industry do not have sufficient power or scope to evaluate the complex supply chain of our food! Unless we go back to a self-sufficient agrarian society, this must be a primary role of a national government. Technology has created a risk to our society that was not present at the time the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution. Falling back to that limited notion of government is ridiculous.

we need to stop the revolving door between our government overseer agencies and the executive ranks of the industries they are overseeing. There should be a white-collar crime branch of the FBI that specifically audits the income of all past employees from overseer agencies to detect and prosecute those who accept any form of employment or benefit (directly or through shell corporations on employer or employee side) from the companies regulated by the industry. It should be a criminally indictable offense with jail time and stiff fines.

we need more powerful tools and transparency to thwart industry lobbying in general

we need more education in our schools to foster critical thinking, to improve the effectiveness of our voting citizenry to support our long term well-being. We need to educate people about how government regulations are protections for all of us people, protecting our long term priorities and collective well-being. People need better tools and defenses against the stupid political slogans about "burdensome regulations"

It is unrealistic to expect everybody to have a self-sufficient food supply to protect against this. It is one of many facets in how the "deconstruction" of our federal government agencies will lead to the deconstruction of our society.

More info from my post on this thread 3 months ago:

We already know EPA is being gutted with specific plans to eliminate it entirely. So more poisoned air and water.

So it should be no surprise that consumer protections of the food we eat will be rolled back too. Amidst growing evidence that glyphosate causes major human health problems (Roundup weed killer from Monsanto- the reason they wanted to make genetically engineered plants so they can just blanket spray the stuff over all crops we eat), now we have the US Dept of Agriculture suspending tests for this poison:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/usda-drops-plan-to-test-for-monsanto-weed-killer-in_us_58d2db4ee4b062043ad4af84

Glyphosate is used in almost all wheat, corn, soy, and gluten-free grain substitutes in America, and even products labeled Organic have tested with glyphosate poison residues. We are all bombarded with it in North America. Here are links to human health:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/


So while the USA is turning a blind eye to something that might be poisoning hundreds of millions of people in our country, here is what is happening in places that still embrace "facts":
http://sustainablepulse.com/2016/07/12/eu-member-states-support-restrictions-of-use-for-glyphosate-herbicides/#.V8BUJfl97IU

http://sustainablepulse.com/2016/08/26/italian-health-ministry-places-strict-restrictions-on-glyphosate-herbicide-use/

What can you do? Buy Glyphosate-free certified foods.

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Here’s Trump:

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As far as Billionaires go, a national sales tax, taxes the most those who spend the most money. Not perfect, but everything has a cost, and most likely unintended consequences.

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