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  1. Mongol Federation
    Long ago the once great Roman Empire collapsed in the West bringing over 800 years of darkness, anarchy and other Somalia-like chaos. During this time a new governing system, based on the nobility, came to power. To support themselves, the nobles created a tax system in which the peasants were ether tined to the land as serfs or owned outright as slaves. These peasants were to create wealth (food and property more then money at the time) which was then confiscated almost in it's entirety. Then civilization returned and the age of nation-states began. At 1st the old feudal system remained largely unchanged, the monarchs simply becoming the head of their nobilities de facto as well as de jour. Soon however the monarchs and their nobilities became, at best, figureheads and at worse, were wiped out by the new republics. The feudal economy began to collapse, displaced by capitalism at 1st and was finally wiped out completely by the successful overthrow of the Russian Empire by the socialists.
    Still, 1 major feudal system remained in place, the taxes. Now the people as a whole, not just peasants, create wealth, that wealth is now counted as money for the most part and it's confiscated not by nobles but by central gov'ts. This system violates modern Western ideals of personal freedom and the individual sovereignty dictated, albeit with different interpretations, by the now dominant capitalist and socialist economic schools of thought. The result is systematic inefficiency, corruption and general populist anger.
    We have an outdated tax system too slow to adapt to economic shifts and too damaging to the wealth of the workers and businesses. We need a new system not based on the seizing of personal wealth but on the idea of a self-funding gov'ts. We need gov'ts that don't deficit spend or even balance a budget but rather gov'ts that turn a profit. Such a system would allow for the financing of gov'ts without the need of the punishing taxes as they are known now while increasing the efficiency of gov'ts by inherently generating more funds then get spent. The more a gov't spends with this system (if spent wisely), the more funding it would receive as the investment payed itself back. An example, a multi-billion dollar power plant would pay for itself within a few years as it operated on a for-profit basis, the people freed from having to pay taxes to fund it and the profits allowing the reigning gov't to forgo taxation for other projects. This opposed to the current need to tax the people to fund construction, the profits going to the private business that owns the power plant and the reigning gov't needing to tax the people once more to fund itself.
    Such a system, based on profitable infrastructure, would at 1st seem like the status quo but consider this: You currently pay your utility bills, as a result you lights stay on, the water keeps flowing, the garbage get's picked up and you maintain communications with the outside world. You then turn around and pay taxes to keep the roads paved, the cops patrolling and the firefighters keeping the flames at bay. In my proposed system, you pay the utility bills and nothing more as the profits pay for what your taxes do now.
    Obviously it's far more complicated then this and I'll happily explain further to any that ask but to avoid a wall-o-text, I'll end this here with the basics explained.
  2. Mongol Federation
    Since '62 Cuba has suffered under the US Trade/Travel Embargo. During the hight of the Cold War, the Soviets took off much of the pressure but after the Fall in '91 that all changed. The military, once a world class force and celebrated to this day as liberators in Africa, was forced to drastically downsize. The economy fell apart up as trade fell off. The people grew poor, humbled by crushing poverty.
    As the years went by, increased trade with the Europeans, Canadians, Mexicans and South Americans combined with the Cuban Gov't's heavy investment in public education started to turn things around. But the US, once Cuba's #1 trading partner making up a full 70% of it's trade, maintains the embargo. The US, which could flood Cuba with tourism money, much needed medical supplies and the experts and tech needed for the creation of a high tech industry does not. The Cuban Gov't is unbowed, the people suffer and the US economy suffers from the continued closing of what has been historically some of the most profitable trade routes in the South.
    If the embargo was to end, up to 500,000 Americans are expected to visit in the 1st year alone, the economy, it's major trade routes restored and the resources needed to harness it's highly educated population, would expense massive growth. Vary quickly Cuba would become one of the major economic powers in Latin America.
    So why do we maintain the embargo? It's a major humanitarian disaster and it's stated goal of deposing the socialists has proven to be 1 of the greatest policy backfires in US history.
    It's time to end the embargo, the suffering and the mutual economic harm.
  3. Mongol Federation
    The above is known as Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression; Constitution of the United States of America. To deny Muslims the right to build this mosque is, if nothing else, a gross violation of Constitutional Law. Our gov't can't establish any 1 or number of religions as official, our gov't can't establish any 1 or any or number of religions as preferred over any 1 or number of other religions and most relevant to the subject at hand, our gov't can't bar anyone from practicing their religion (no matter how much we all want to muzzle the Scientologists ).

    The above alone, at least legally, should end the debate but the subject is far more complicated. America is or so we claim, to be a land of freedom, enlightenment and tolerance. America is "the city on the hill". To deny American Muslims or any American the right to worship is to forget ourselves, to abandon the ideals of the Republic and to go down a path that will lead to the end of our world honored civilization. It is a path of darkness, decay and tyranny. It is a path, that being recognized for what it was, led to the foundation of American civilization itself. To abandon this heritage is nothing less then treason.

    Having noted the legal and moral flaws of the opposition, let me end with a bit of strategic thinking. We have, no matter how much we wish to forget it, caused great harm to Islamic civilization over the last century and over the past 3 decades, they've returned the favor with the vigor and zeal that would be admirable if better placed. So long as extremists on both sides reopen old wounds while throwing salt, our world shall never know peace. To allow the construction of this American mosque, in this American city on this most hollowed of American soil would be a testament not only to the ideals of our great Republic but to our commitment to peace and values of the Enlightenment. It would give us the morale and political high ground while removing the credibility 1 of the enemies greatest weapons, the propaganda that we are at war not with extremism but Islam itself. Let us defeat those who twist the word of God with honor and truth, to continue as we have is only to aid their efforts. Where is the logic in that?

    Let peace and honor become our watchwords. Let us abandon the path of darkness that, blinded by fear, anger and hatred, we have mistakenly tuned down.
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