So we begin this blog with the question "what is monkey wrenching and do your agree with it?"
Money wrenching is a sabotaging equipment to cause serious economic damage,
while temporary or permanently halting activities that cause damage to the environment.
Personally I have no tolerance towards this type of protesting for 3 reasons. 1st
is illegal, 2nd it a form of violent and destructive protest, 3rd
its harms economic activates while promoting illegal behavior, deeming it
acceptable. This is where earth first
fall under.
Next we move onto the Green
party. The piece of legislation I most approve of is not environmental policy,
but economic. Section E of the platform
Fair Taxation section 1.m“Federal and state taxes must be strongly
progressive” is the policy I most agree with. This mean that individuals are
taxed solely based off income. In this system, the citizens who make a 100,000
+ pay significally more than citizens who makes only 25,000 a year. This allows
for lower income citizens to keep more of their income. Those who have been so
lucky to have a decent income pay more to help support the nation. They are not
taxes to the point where they lose majority of their income. A progressive tax
rate has been in effect in the US since 1900s.
Finally, would I join the Green
Party? If some of the ideology changes then yes. The Green Party support strong
leftists policies which I can truly relate to. The problem I have with the
green party is the fact that is it was to strengthen and weaken government at
the same time. While this is a flaw in green values, most green party
candidates do not support the weakening of the federal government since its viewed
as the protecting force for the people. If the candidate supports this ideology,
then I would support the Green party. I did in the last senate election, I
voted for Tom Clements.
Hi, Matt! Great job with bringing in Tom Clements to speak today - was awesome to hear his perspective! I thought you might write more about the multiparty system in the blog maybe, but more so you talk about federal government...are you in support of decentralized or centralized? I feel like the Green Party is not supporting a big federal government, or at least I didn't see it in their platform; if anything, I think it's more a matter of what Tom was saying about having to choose their battles (so you can only make so much change unless everyone else has the paradigm shift too, and weakening substantially the federal government isn't something that most want for the U.S. right now). What do you think?
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