CF Election Game: The Vote

Name of Party: Social equality and justice (mzungu)

Approximate political category: Socialist
National Security (Internal and External): Better border control and well educated and trained police. Tougher stance on foreign intervention aimed at my country.

Education and Health Care: will copy the Finnish model (as is today). [That's free healthcare for the majority, and free education up until the end of third level, free daycare]

Transport and Utilities: With the exception of sea and air all other transport will be public. Water and electricity will be public. Communications will be mixed.

Social Issues (Gay marriage, etc.): No death penalty. no male gay couples adopting children, (only female gay couples can adopt). Petty crimes will be served with community work and or serving in the armed forces. Children and the elderly will be afforded maximum protection and support under the law. Total freedom of religion except to cults such as scientology

The economy, business, and jobs: Regulation of the banking and private industry (opposite of globalisation). Will stick to the European model of employment policies and labour laws of the 80s.

Other: corruption will be dealt with severely especially if politicians are involved. They will be publicly mocked and their assets will be confiscated and given to the poor.

Gun ownership for sporting use only

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Name of Party: Federalist (panzerkampfwagen)

Approximate political category: Libertarian

and the position it plans to take, if elected, in the following key areas:

National Security (Internal and External): Mexican border: In order to secure the border with Mexico, and because the Mexican government cannot get its endemic corrupt under control, and in light of its complicity in aiding criminals in violating US law, we are going to have to take a firm stance, possibly including creating of a buffer zone within Mexican territory. We also need to strengthen security along the Northern border and make it more difficult for drug smugglers particularly in the mountainous areas. We also need to increase vigilance of our coastal waters and begin a program of deportation of those who are illegally in the US.

Education and Health Care: The federal government should not meddle in education and health care. States should be free to enact any type of education system that they wish and any type of health care system that they wish.

Transport and Utilities: The federal government will design and create a highway system for the government's use in national matters. It also is an incidental benefit to the states.

Social Issues (Gay marriage, etc.): The federal government does not meddle in social legislation except to ensure that papers granted by one state are given full faith and credit by any other state to include drivers' licenses, concealed pistol licenses, marriage licenses, divorce decrees and any other document issued by one of the several states.

The economy, business, and jobs: The federal government is not in the business of creating jobs. In the interests of general welfare, the federal government can pass nonspecific legislation which ensures that all products brought to market in the US are safe for use prior to their entrance into the commerce of the US. Our party supports a uniform across the board tax rate of somewhere between 10 and 25% until we can decide which programs need to be cut and balance the budget and pay off the national debt. The tax rate will then be fixed at a percentage of that rate, and individuals will have the option of paying their taxes either in installments throughout the year or in one lump sum at the end of the year. Each employer will issue an employee an earnings statement at the end of the year showing how much the employee earned. We believe that simplifying the tax code in that manner will greatly help the US economy.

Other: We will stop federal funding to the states, and use that money for federal purposes. We will not use federal funding to influence policy decisions of states.

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Name of Party: Common Sense Party (jayem)

Approximate political category: Some liberal, conservative, libertarian, state regulation, and anything else when it makes sense

National Security (Internal and External): Expeditious withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. Relax work permit requirements, but increase personnel at borders, and change TSA procedures to utilize profiling.

Education and Health Care: Health insurance separated from employment, but kept in private sector. Carriers required to sell insurance to everyone, and everyone required to have a basic, catastrophic policy. Medicare and Medicaid to be incorporated into overall insurance system. Education to be left at local level.

Transport and Utilities: Local issues. As budget allows, government should fund/give tax credits for research into fuel efficient tranportation and renewable energy. May consider revising rules on nuclear power.

Social Issues (Gay marriage, etc.): Generally libertarian.

The economy, business, and jobs: Phase out current income tax and replace with some variation of negative income tax. May also consider adding consumption or VAT. Allow companies to hire foreign workers above board (in keeping with border policy) but with strict oversight. Long-term goal should be to form a Western Hemisphere Economic Union to compete with EU and Asian countries.

Other: Scale down NASA. AS per above, highest priority for government supported scientific research should be renewable energy, and eventual energy independence.

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Name of Party: Liberty (callmemurph)

Approximate political category: Libertarian

National Security (Internal and External): The government's responsibilities are limited to protecting individuals from coercion, fraud and theft, to requiring reparation to victims, and to defending the country from foreign aggression. We will protect our borders from foreign aggressors. Peaceful people will be allowed to enter the country. Individuals are encouraged to protect themselves from all forms of aggression.

Education and Health Care: Private education would allow the best institutions to emerge through competition and people would have the choice where to attend. Private health care institutions (hospitals, insurance, etc) would also allow people to choose the most competitive healthcare they were able to afford. For those who are unable to afford proper health care or education they would be provided for by charitable groups.

Transport and Utilities: These would be run by private groups. Those unable to afford the services would find help from charitable groups.

Social Issues (Gay marriage, etc.): Everyone has the right to their own person, the right of donation, of bequest (and, concomitantly, the right to receive the bequest or inheritance), and the right of contractual exchange of property titles. Things such as gay marriage will be left up to individuals. If two gay people choose to marry they will be able to marry. They will not be able to force a church or any other institution to marry them though. If they want to set up their own church they are free to do so.

The economy, business, and jobs: A command (government run/guided) economy destroys the information function of prices, and that authority over the economy leads to totalitarianism. The only way to get the maximum efficiency from the economy, which will allow for the optimum amount jobs and best prices, is to let the economy run itself. (Private banks, private institutions, a money supply that is backed by more than government control)



I realize this might seem simple because I'm basically stating the same thing over and over again. Feel free to ask questions so I can elaborate if you wish.

Other: Would legalise marijuana for personal use
Would not sanction government-funded public awareness programmes
Would not penalise companies who pollute

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Name of Party: The Peoples Christian Party (dawiyd)

Party Goals: To eliminate the social ills that plague society, not through prohibition and restriction of liberty but taxation.

Approximate political category: We aim to portray ourselves as Conservative Christians.

National Security (Internal and External): Remove personal body scanners from airports, they are indecent. However increase funding for searches.

Tighter border patrols and essential maintaining America's security.

We will stay committed to the war in Afghanistan. Fundamentalist Islam, is one of the gravest facing America. To coin a phrase, "we have to be lucky all the time, they only have to be lucky once". We cannot let Al-Qaeda form a base in Afghanistan, they must be eradicated! We must put more pressure on Pakistan to combat militants.

Education and Healthcare: We announce no policy information at this time. *

Transport and Utilities: All privatised, with local government subsides for non profitable rural routes and infrastructure.

Social Issues (Gay marriage, etc.): Gay marriage is illegal, however civil-partnerships are legal, and certain and certain issues like property inheritance after a death of a partner. However no tax-breaks. I'll expand on this later.

Drugs policy: Drugs are a social ill, and should be eradicated for personal use, stringent efforts should be made to stop importation, smuggling and using.

Medicinal Cannabis, should be lead by science and not prejudice. We believe that politicians are not doctors, so medicines will be regulated by the FDA, on an evidence based approach to it's effectiveness.

Abortion: Abortion made illegal, except in circumstances where the mothers physical life is endanger. Would seek to enable the rights of the foetus for life.

Pornography: Respect the rights of publishers, would never attempt to subvert the press, but we intend to impose prohibitive tax on pornography on all magazines and online subscriptions.

Alcohol & Cigarettes: Both are major contributors to the public health crisis America finds itself in. Again we intend to impose to a prohibitive tax.

Jobs: The government is not an employer, it is the private sector and small business that creates Jobs. Government funded job projects take resources away from the private sector. We seek to support small businesses by lowering small business tax. Seek to increase government buying American over cheaper foreign purchases.

Other: Will not impose penalties on companies who pollute, although individuals are free to pursue civil suits if damage is caused to them by a company's actions

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Democratic Socialist Party (WiredSpirit) Name of Party: Democratic Socialist Party (seeks to caucus with Social equality and Justice party on certain issues)

Approximate political category: socialist

National Security (Internal and External):

All bases on foreign soil will be closed. All contracts with private companies dealing with defense will be reviewed for waste and heavily scrutinized before renewal. Our country will have strong allies on every continent, which will aid our cause in a global conflict.

Education and Health Care:

Primary education will be held to federal standards and not state and local standards. In some of the states with the best overall education rankings we have some of the worst schools and in some of the states with the worst rankings we have the best schools. These schools are innovators and we'll model our system after them. A two-year post-secondary education will be provided and if academic progress is met the student can go on to complete a four-year post-secondary program at a public institution. Private schools will be allowed to operate so long as they meet federal accreditation standards.

Transport and Utilities:

Every metropolitan area of 100,000 people or more will undergo a study every 10 years in correlation with the census to develop and implement comprehensive public transportation. Localities will receive federal funding to implement and/or maintain their transit systems so long as their plans meet the needs outlined in the federal study. Completion of existing plans for high-speed, cross country rail lines will be a priority.

Social Issues (Gay marriage, etc.):

Government and commerce related agencies will recognize gay marriage, but non-profit, non-government agencies are free to define marriage however they wish. Abortion will be legal, however, surgical abortions must be performed in a hospital with emergency credentials and for-profit clinics, which often push women to make decisions not in their best interests, will close.

Criminal rehabilitation will be a priority. The death penalty will be abolished.

The economy, business, and jobs:

Commodities with a wide-spread, direct affect on commerce will be run by the government without use of public funds. This means consumers will still pay the costs. These include energy and general utilities. We see how electric prices in areas with a municipality-utility are often one-third or less that of a private utility. It is important for consumers to pay the cost, however, to encourage responsible use and conservation.

The effective tax rate on corporations will not be less than 20%. Even with the US corporate tax rate at 35% the effective rate on them averages out to 11%.

A strong consumer protection agency will scrutinize all consumer investment and banking products, and day trading will be strongly discouraged through taxes and penalties.

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Name of Party: Hawk Party (Chris81)


Approximate political category: Neo-conservative

National Security (Internal and External): Maintaining a strong national defense is the primary objective of the Hawk Party. The US military budget should be significantly increased such that it accommodates a fighting force of 2 million soldiers, the next generation of stealth fighters, bombers, and other advanced military hardware, and the capacity to fight wars in multiple theaters of battle.

Israel is our most important ally and we pledge unwavering support in its efforts to combat Hamas and Hezbollah and we defend its rightful territorial claims.

We seek to not only continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but plan to set up large permanent military bases that will serve as platforms to launch future wars against Iran and Syria. We believe the way to combat terrorism and extremism is to implement democracies in emerging nations and assist countries in adopting democratic governments.

Education and Health Care: Standards for education need to be set and monitored at the federal level. Our nation schools are presenting a far too critical view of American history. Our schools need to emphasis America as the indispensible nation, that is truly exceptional, and histories greatest empire.

Our party is greatly concerned with the health of our nation’s youth. Our schools need to do a better job emphasizing proper diet and physical fitness at a very early age. The federal government needs to regulate what is put into our food to help ensure that we have a much healthier overall public. Our government needs to ensure that we have a healthy fit population of young adults that stand ready to fight for their nation when they are called to serve.

Transport and Utilities: Our party supports large capital investment projects to improve our nation’s highways, bridges, and rail lines. We believe a strong national infrastructure is needed to insure a thriving economy.

Social Issues (Gay marriage, etc.): US culture continues to sink to new lows of vulgarity. We believe government has a responsibility to restore faith and values to society. We are deeply troubled by the increasing breakdown of the family because see the strength of the family being tied to the overall health and vitality of the Nation.

Illegal Drug use is a major problem that must be dealt with through a more aggressive war on drugs. We need more police officers on our streets to deal with this nation’s out of control crime. We need stricter enforcement of drug laws and longer prison sentences for drug users and dealers.

The economy, business, and jobs: Our party is generally supportive of free markets and capitalism, favoring supply side approaches, but we believe that government intervention and budget deficits are necessary for the purposes of stimulating the economy.

We believe that one of the best means to stimulate the economy is for our country to undertake a large military conflict. This fact was evidenced by the US economy recovering from the Great Depression by fighting and winning in World War II.

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Douger said:

Ahhhh! Where's the undo?!?! I meant to vote Liberty, but instead clicked People's Christian

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