"I'm just posting it to see if we can come up with some good ideas for Jim Talent's campaign anyway."
Ban m-fund, hedge fund, and indexed investing in the oil futures market.
Hmmmm. I don't think if Talent said it that too many people would understand it. They might even think he was trying to be an effete snob, talking over their heads.
How about if he said something like Thomas Sowell did -- (See: "Those who supply oil are being denounced and demonized by those who have been blocking the supply of oil." HERE-and HERE)....or like Ben Stein did: "The oil companies do not come even remotely close to setting the price of oil and gasoline. ... The largest oil company in the U.S. (a piker compared with many foreign companies) controls less than 3 percent of the world's oil. Does that offer a clue on how prices get set?" -- Ben Stein
Skipped Econ 203, did you? Or flunked, which?
Why not just ban captialism and free enterprise?
"I'm just posting it to see if we can come up with some good ideas for Jim Talent's campaign anyway."
Eliminate the department of education. They've yet to educate a single child.
End funding for the National Propaganda Radio (NPR)
Throw out the tax code and start over. The flatter the better. Citizens and businesses should be able to fill out their taxes on-line or over the phone and spend less than 1 hour a year doing it. We grossed ___ and here is your 15%.
Taxes are due every FIRST TUESDAY in November.
Ban Senators and Representatives from ever meeting again in Washington DC. They can teleconference from their own hometown and we can keep an eye on them.
Privatize the medical industry, social security, social services. Privatize just about any damn thing the government does except for the roads and the military and law enforcement.