NAME: Forrest Rogers
TITLE: Restructure, Reform and Revise the Policies of Affirmative Action
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Education, Employment, Selected Processes
SUMMARY: “It is unjust for an upper class American of a minority status to be favored in selective processes over an impoverished member of the majority group. This policy may have once been justified by the social ills that minorities must overcome, but now the greater disadvantage is due to financial class. Society more fairly views all ethnicities and this equality is protected by standing legislation. Therefore, advantage should be given by economic status as opposed to race.
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Proposal #223
Jul 8
Proposal #302
Jul 8
NAME: Ameen Merchant, California
TITLE: To Implement an Automatic Government Stimulus Program
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Average citizens, legislators, American businesses
SUMMARY: “When the economy is not doing well, most economists concur that some form of government spending should take place in order to alleviate the problem. However, in the present day, representatives worry about tying themselves to a stimulus package because it may affect future campaigns for re-election. Having a system in place that saves money and spends it wisely would prevent monetary flow during periods of financial stagnation and would allow for representatives to not receive negative publicity.”
Proposal #242
Jul 8
NAME: Kyle Leopard, North Carolina
TITLE: Ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty in the United States
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: United States Coast Guard, International Seabed Authority, the environment, oil industry, freightliners, and marine life.
SUMMARY: “Because of the degradation of marine life on the high seas, the availability of certain fish has dwindled causing the price of these fish to rise because of scarcity, which hurts the Americans who cannot afford higher prices.”
Proposal #393/271
Jul 8
(393)NAME: David Hays, Model UN
TITLE: Rectifying a heinous violation of human rights: banning capital punishment from the United States of America.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Due to current nationwide misjudgment, the banning of capital punishment in the United States would remove over 3,300 inmates who currently sit, violated on death row. Further, all legal systems would have to be revised so that naive juries cannot estrange criminals from their basic right to life and freedom from draconian punishment. When the moral remedy is provided, more prison space will be needed to that inmates will be able to suffer in confinement for their life, rather than having their life mercifully taken from them.
SUMMARY: “Our founding fathers signed a sacred document into law, that provided protection from ‘cruel and unusual punishment,’ forcibly ending a man’s life is a direct violation fir this provision. Further, the UN Declaration of Human Rights decrees that all humans shall be free from ‘unhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment.”
(271)NAME: Jared Thompson, Kentucky
TITLE: A proposal to abolish the death penalty in all fifty states.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: The United States prison and Court systems
SUMMARY: “Not only does the death penalty fall under cruel and unusual punishment (as defined by the 8th Amendment), it is also an ineffective deterrent.”
Proposal #360
Jul 8
NAME: Micah Peterson, Texas
TITLE: A proposal to discontinue federal inheritance and estate taxes within the United States
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Parties affected would include anyone receiving any sort of inheritance for which they would be taxed under the current inheritance tax or estate tax law. This automatically exempts spouses if they are beneficiaries of estate or inheritance taxes, because under current law, they are already completely tax exempt.
SUMMARY: “It is wrong and immoral to tax any inheritance, from either the wealthy or the poor.”
Proposal #168
Jul 8
NAME: Zach Burnett, Kentucky
TITLE: A proposal to eliminate marriage as an available form of legal contract recognized by the government.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Federal and State Marriage Laws, United States citizens
SUMMARY: “Many people object to the rights of homosexuals to marry because the Bible defines marriage as a holy union between a man and a woman. … The easiest way to solve the issue is to do away with marriage as a legal contact recognized by the government and transfer all of the rights, privileges, and responsibilities related to marriage to a new legal contact, which will be known as a civil union. Couples may still be “married” as recognized by the church, but will be recognized as a “civil union” by the government.”
Proposal #417
Jul 8
NAME: Samual Schimmel, Washington
TITLE: Halt the discharging of soldiers from the United States Armed Forces on the grounds of “Personality Disorder.”
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: All branches of the United States Armed Forces
SUMMARY: “Once discharged with PD, soldiers are denied their disability and medical benefits and forced to pay back up to several thousands of dollars of their re-enlistment bonus, a sum often exceeding their final paycheck. According to a Pentagon and Harvard University study, the military saves billions of dollars through this twisted and inhumane process.”
Proposal #128
Jul 8
NAME: Armand Thompson, Minnesota
TITLE: To ensure the long term stability of Social Security benefits by raisin the age of eligibility for Social Security up to 75.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: The US government, the US economy, Americans over the age of 65 and 75, American tax-payers
SUMMARY: “The most logical solution to the Social Security’s financing problem is to reduce the benefits by increasing the early eligibility and normal retirement age. … It is crucial for that the eligibility age for social security be raised to at least 75 to provide a system which will be financially solvent for those over the age of 75.”
Proposal #218
Jul 8
AUTHOR: Fields Pierce, North Carolina
TITLE: The implementation of a soft power strategy in Afghanistan consisting of both political and religious summits to compliment Operation Enduring Freedom.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Joint Chiefs of Staff, State Department, Department of Defense
SUMMARY: “The cost of war has escalated to unprecedented levels, according to the Congressional Research Unit who estimate that each soldier deployed to Afghanistan costs an estimated $1 million. … With the withdrawal date set so soon, it is imperative that the United States accomplish two major points: reconstruct our reputation for international diplomacy and prepare the Karzai government for life after American occupation. These religious summits, to eliminate militant Islamic action and recruitment and the political summits to develop Afghanistan are needed in order to cripple the Taliban by cutting off their support from the bottom up, while Operation Enduring Freedom handles direct conflicts using drone missiles and specialty missions.”
Proposal #77
Jul 8
AUTHOR: Haley Parrott, Kentucky
TITLE: A Proposal to enact all legislation containing a federal tax or budget reformation to be implemented within one year of passage.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Internal Revenue Service, United State’s Office of Management and Budget, Federal funded programs, US tax paying citizens.
SUMMARY: “As of February 2010, over $3.24 trillion in federal debt has been designated to be paid for through taxes starting in 2014. On February 13, 2010, President Obama placed an executive order initiating Paygo. Paygo states that Congress must create a tax, budget cut, or other means of financial support for any legislation requiring finance. … Under Paygo, a piece of legislation can be enacted and withdraw finance from the federal budget while the tax to pay for the law does not go into effect until several years later. This proposal would prevent generational theft by forcing all legislation to be paid for upon enactment of the law.”