Winfield/AndrewTX for Atlasia, the rise of the Grass Roots

[Simfan34]

This is truly a ticket of true leaders of The People.

[Simfan34]

SIMFAN: WINFIELD IS MY CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT

NYMAN (UPA)- Game Moderator Simfan34 declared today that he is supporting former Northeast Governor Winfield's bid for the presidency in the upcoming elections in June.

"I will be supporting Winfield and Andrew in their campaign," he said. "They have my full support and I intend to help them in any way I can in the coming weeks; they are the true supporters of The People and I believe that this is enough to get them over the top."

Simfan, who previously served as Winfield's Lieutenant Governor from July to October 2011, ran with Winfield for Vice President on a Social Credit Party (SCP) ticket in the February 2013 election. In that race Winfield and Simfan received 5% of the vote and placed in fourth. Winfield also ran in the October 2012 election and placed third, with 11.4% of the vote.

Queried on whether he thought Winfield could perform better in the upcoming election, Simfan said that he thought so. "Without a doubt, they will do better- they're going to win. Why? Because this time I think they've started from a position of strength, they have significant firepower lining up behind them at an early stage. Which is something we didn't have in 2012."

He said that Winfield's platform represented "a real change from business as usual" and his remarks showed "the insightfulness and measured thought that we have come to expect from Governor Winfield." As for the the choice of Former Governor AndrewTX, Simfan said that "the choice showed a lot of verve, a lot of gumption," and that it was "by far the strongest ticket out there."

Asked why he endorsed Winfield over the only TPP candidate in the race, SirNick, or Pacific Governor DemPGH, Labor's candidate, with whom he has worked closely, Simfan remarked that "SirNick and DemPGH have been good, solid leaders in their regions, and they would be good presidents- I'd be contented with them in office. But I honestly believe that only Winfield would be a great President in the mould of Duke, Polnut, or Averroes- those who have been amongst The People."

Simfan currently serves not only as Game Moderator, but also Attorney General and a Pacific Councillor. Exiled for twelve years, Simfan made a triumphant return in March 2014. Prior to his exile, he served as a Senator, Speaker of the Northeast Assembly, two times Northeast Lieutenant Governor, member of the Assembly, and Chief Judicial Officer.

[Simfan34]

I hope we will see the return of some of your ideas from last year:

WINFIELD-SIMFAN 2013
A NATION TO SAVE!
THE SOCIAL CREDIT PLATFORM FOR PROSPERITY

CARE FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE

Parental Leave Act
The Parental Leave Act would mandate that employers grant mothers 10 weeks of maternity leave at full pay, the first two weeks of which shall be mandatory taken, and an additional ten weeks at half-pay, and two weeks of paternity leave at full pay. The family is then entitled to 30 additional weeks of guaranteed leave without pay.

National Daycare Provider Act
This would empower and fund school districts to set up day-care and pre-school programs for young children, as to enable both parents to enter the workforce. Two meals a day and a snack would be served in these programs. In addition, the NEPA would grant credits for low-income families to send their children to private, competitive day care and pre-school programs.

FELLA (Fostering Early Literacy for Low-Income Atlasians) Act
The FELLA Act would establish funding for early literacy programmes in low-income areas and other areas of below-average literacy. These programs would be held at local libraries and schools, and would include family nights focused on the importance of and strategies for reading with children, reading and writing sessions at the libraries, and the Young Literacy Corps’ volunteers mentor pre-schoolers, kindergarteners and first graders in reading, oral language, and literacy skill development.

GET(Gaining Excellent Teachers) Act
The Gaining Excellent Teachers Act would supplement the recently passed Atlasian Institute of Teachers Act by providing incentives for high performance on the National Teachers Licensing Exam (NTLE) and performance in their academic institution via tax credits and tuition grants.

Universal Secondary Education Act
The federal government would mandate that every Atlasian, who is capable of such, must achieve a secondary-level education, that is, complete high school.

Universal Tertiary Education Act
The federal government would mandate that every Atlasian, who is capable of such, at least complete two years of tertiary education, whether it be at a trades school, an associate degree, vocational education, military education, or general bachelors and graduate degrees. This would help make our workforce more competitive in the 21st century global economy and allow for the strengthening of trades.

Federal Holidays and Vacations Act
All Atlasians would be entitled to fourteen days of paid leave per annum in addition to the observance of all federal holidays, in addition to Easter Monday, Good Friday, Easter, Election Day, and Constitution Day.

Anti-Treason Commemoration Act
The commemoration of any official, organization, or institution associated with the Confederate States of America (CSA) by state or regional holiday or any other law is prohibited.

Federal Provident Fund Act
The Federal Provident Fund would mandate the saving by every Atlasian of a minimum 2.25% of their annual income for old age, to gradually increase over time. Eventually this may displace Social Security. A minimum savings would be set and differences between 2.25% of income and the legal minimum would be funded by the government, thus encouraging saving even for low-income earners.

National Savings Bank Act
A Federally-backed savings bank would be established to encourage general  (non-retirement) saving by individuals, and re-establishing the Postal Savings Bank. Income shown as saved in the Savings Bank would be eligible for a full tax credit of up to $50,000 for couples and $25,000, and a half tax credit in other banks.

Guaranteed Minimum Income Act
Each Atlasian would be entitled to a minimum post-tax income as set forth by the bill, and the actualisation of the minimum income would be through a negative income tax, without any other reduction of benefits.

Federal Final Dignity Act
All Atlasians would be entitled to a burial or cremation in a cemetery, with rites preformed according to their religious beliefs, and a permanent marker of their burial, with government funding in the case of inability to pay.

A RICHER CULTURE AND AFFORDABLE RECREATION  

National Interest Cultural Sites Access Act
Museums and other cultural sites designated to be of “national interest” (ie, Ellis Island, Metropolitan Museum of Art) shall be subsidised by the Federal Government to the point of guaranteed free admission.

Preforming Arts Preservation Act
A “sustaining grant” shall be made to all major symphonic, classical, and preforming arts organisations and programmes; symphonies should not be made to go bankrupt.

Preforming Arts Service Initiative Act
The Preforming Arts Service Initiative (PASI), would brings talented Servicemen and Servicewomen into the concert halls, opera houses, and theatres of Atlasian towns and cities, to help both broaden their experience and help bring high culture into everyday life for millions of Atlasians.

Public Art Project  Act
The Public Art Project (PAP) would bring the works of Atlasia’s most promising young artists into to the public sphere, from our newest rural public buildings to even the Capitol. Additionally, PAP members helped make informational posters, exhibition displays, informational diagrams, and technical schematics.

Young Arts Project Act
This would give significant grants to public school districts for funding art and music programs, and funding visits to museums, theatres, et al.

Recreation and Fitness Act
Subsidies to families who cannot otherwise afford the costs to ensure their children are able to enroll and engage in recreational and sporting activities of various types.    

PAYING FOR THIS ALL
Goods and Services Tax Act
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) would be a tax levied on the value added on each level of production, at a level of 5%. Most developed countries, and indeed most countries in general, have a goods and services tax, and there is no reason Atlasia should not have one as well, especially in order to fund the improvements we intend to make. With exemptions for housing, education, and charitable donations, a GST would raise $277.2 billion in new revenue.
(http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R41708_20110322.pdf)

Financial Transactions Tax
The Financial Transactions Tax would tax the trades of each major category of financial assets traded in Atlasian markets: stocks, bonds, foreign exchange, and derivative assets (i.e. options, forwards, futures, and swaps). Many analysts also believe that an excessive share of the economy’s resources is being consumed by the financial sector. A financial transactions or trading tax is a policy tool that can address both issues: raising a substantial amount of revenue and reducing the size of financial trading in the U.S. economy relative to the economy’s level of productive activity. At a rate of 0.5% on stocks and 0.01% on bonds, a Financial Transactions Tax could raise up to $353.8 billion in new revenue. (http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1180&context=peri_workingpapers)

In total, this is $631 billion of new income per annum.

GAME REFORM

Establish the office of the Presidential Press Secretary
To improve communication from the President to the citizens of Atlasia, we would establish a Presidential Press Office to make announcements on a weekly basis, minimum. The Press Secretary would guarantee at least a basic level of contact and interaction with the Presidency, and would always be open for questions by definition.

Reorganize the Federal Departments:
A Department of Treasury and Budget
A Department of the Interior
A Department of State
A Department of Federal Elections
A Department of the Census
A Department of Culture and Education
  
A people’s constitutional convention

Party primaries
All parties would hold primaries for their presidential nominations

Popular petition through the committees
Constituents would be able to propose bills for Senatorial Committee’s recommendation

Winfield/Simfan Energy Policy

If we create the right kind of system, we can not only get off the fossil-fuels roller coaster, but speed the transition to a clean energy economy that puts the interests of people before interests of polluters.  
Our goal is to cut carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. This will be accomplished through a cap-and-trade system that would auction off 100 percent of emissions permits, making polluters pay for the CO2 they emit.

We intend to channel revenue raised from auctioning emissions permits,  between $30 billion and $50 billion a year, toward developing and deploying clean energy technology, creating "green jobs."  

25 percent of electricity is to come from renewable sources by 2025, and 30 percent of the federal government's electricity is to come from renewables by 2020.

We will propose investing $150 billion over 10 years in R&D for renewables, biofuels, efficiency, clean coal, and other clean tech.

This plan is designed to achieve the following results:

-Improving energy efficiency 50 percent by 2030.

-36 billion gallons of biofuels to be used each year by 2022 and 60 billion gallons of biofuels to be used each year by 2030.

-All new buildings to be carbon neutral by 2030.

-Reduce oil consumption by at least 35 percent, or 10 million barrels a day, by 2030.

-Get 1 Million Plug-In Hybrid Cars on the Road by 2015.
 
-Create a new $7,000 tax credit for purchasing advanced vehicles.

-Weatherize one million homes annually.

-Increase fuel economy standards.

-Crack down on excessive energy speculation.

-Develop and deploy clean coal technology.

We will be working toward less oil dependancy from the middle east and Venezuela, markets which will become more and more volatile in the coming years.  I propose to increase our oil imports from Canada, a more dependable supplier.

Off shore drilling will only be permitted once it has been established that adequate controls are in place to ensure no oil spills will occur.

[Simfan34]

This is most unfortunate. Now what will we center-rightists do?

[Simfan34]

DRAFT WINFIELD!