Blog #12

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. 1^st is illegal, 2^nd it a form of violent and destructive protest, 3^rd 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.