{"id":42,"date":"2003-03-10T16:31:02","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:07:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:07:57","slug":"the_liberal_hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"The Liberal Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe has challenged me to put together an affirmative policy that would stake out my position as a \u2018liberal hawk\u2019. I\u2019m working on it, in between consulting, launching a new product, more consulting, taking care of the kids, commuting, and whining about how busy I am.<\/p>\n

I thought a good starting place would be to pull together some quotes from stuff I\u2019ve written in the past \u2013 I originally did it for myself (at my age it\u2019s hard to remember what you said a week ago), and realized that it could stand as a kind of placeholder, and that the comments it might engender would improve my own understanding and arguments.<\/p>\n

So here goes:<\/p>\n

From my \u2018State of the Union\u2019<\/a> piece:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u2026on the war:<\/u><\/p>\n

We will move to require that all U.S. Citizens and resident aliens suspected of terrorist activity or conspiracy [on U.S. soil] be dealt with through the legal system, and to ensure that political speech and actions as opposed to terrorist conspiracy are fully protected.<\/p>\n

\u2026we propose reallocating the bulk of the funds proposed for ballistic missile defense implementation, as opposed to research, to strengthening the technology and personnel who can secure our ports, airports and highways against terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

We propose substantially increasing the budget for public health to create mechanisms to defend us against the possibility of both natural and man-made diseases.<\/p>\n

\u2026on fiscal and tax policy:<\/u><\/p>\n

We want to retarget his [the President\u2019s] changes in the tax rates downward.<\/p>\n

The repeal of the estate tax was an expensive mistake. We want to undo it.<\/p>\n

We support a reduction in corporate taxes as well, and would support his effort to eliminate taxes on dividends, as long as it was combined with a tax on \u2018mailbox\u2019 corporations that do business and are truly headquartered in the U.S., but maintain fictitious addresses in foreign tax havens.<\/p>\n

We also want to examine the subsidies built into the tax codes for the largest corporations, and retarget those at the true engines of prosperity and job growth, the small and regional businesses that are the backbone of American wealth and well-being<\/p>\n

We propose a national task force on local government finance, with a deadline of next year and the honest charter to find a way to keep the states and local cities from going bankrupt.<\/p>\n

\u2026on energy:<\/u><\/p>\n

\u2026we will propose the entire Federal civilian vehicle fleet be transitioned to natural gas over the next five years, and that a series of tax and regulatory incentives be put in place to encourage the use of natural-gas powered vehicles.<\/p>\n

We propose to end the [fiscal and regulatory] subsidies to fuel-inefficient small trucks and SUV\u2019s. <\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From my comments<\/a> on Iraq:<\/p>\n

1) We won\u2019t take Iraqi oil as booty;<\/p>\n

2) We will work to wean ourselves from Middle Eastern oil through efficiency and domestic sources (but this time, unlike the Alaska pipeline, we won\u2019t lie to Congress and the people and go sell the oil to Japan)<\/p>\n

3) We\u2019re in this for the duration.<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This covers a few of the topics that need covering; to them I\u2019ll add the following:<\/p>\n

1) How should we have \u2018sold\u2019 the war domestically and internationally;
\n2) How we should finance the war;
\n3) How we should tie the war to the \u2018War on terrorism\u2019 and to settling the Arab-Israeli conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe has challenged me to put together an affirmative policy that would stake out my position as a \u2018liberal hawk\u2019. I\u2019m working on it, in between consulting, launching a new product, more consulting, taking care of the kids, commuting, and whining about how busy I am. I thought a good starting place would be to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}