(further proving Carlin was ahead of his time)
The Five Craziest Policies in Texas Republicans’ 2012 Platform-
1) The party opposes almost all forms of taxation: The Texas GOP supports "repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment," which instituted a national income tax, and instead favors a wildly regressive national sales tax that would hit low- and middle-income Americans hardest. It also favors making the Bush tax cuts permanent and repealing the capital gains tax and the estate tax, the latter of which it claims is "immoral and should be abolished forever." On the state level, it supports abolishing property and business taxes, and property taxes on inventory, and opposes efforts to institute a state income tax, an Internet sales tax, professional licensing fees, and taxes on real estate transactions. Instead, it supports "shifting the tax burden to a consumption-based tax."
2) It supports returning to the gold standard:
3) It supports privatizing Social Security:
4) It opposes multicultural education and "critical thinking"
5) It supports corporal punishment in schools:
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10007-the-five-craziest-policies-in-texas-republicans
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