The Contraception Religious Debate

This debate and the Republican Party’s views on this issue are completely ridiculous. The fact that most people are failing to bring up is history. The morning after pill, birth control, and even to a certain extent effective condoms are all relatively new advents in the public market. The question arrives as to whether or not we as a nation will allow our medical and healthcare systems to adjust and progress beyond that which they are. The funding by healthcare companies for contraception is something that ought to be required because it is an issue of healthcare. It’s as simple as that. Including those working at certain protected institutions. If we allow groups to be excluded for certain reasons or another, we are going to further legitimize ancient beliefs on marriage and other issues as well.

If our nation becomes one that lets one group decide the fate of issues for 50%+ of the population, how is that a democracy? Republicans love to say that allowing same sex marriages is a slippery slope to people trying to marry their cats & dogs…..well what slippery slope would this bring about? Allowing one group to deny another group a service that they disagree with…..hmmm…..what does that sound like? Let’s examine a hypothetical.

Imagine a medicine comes out that COMPLETELY removes the sickle cell gene with 99% effectiveness and very few side effects if used as directed. Now, it is very well known that the sickle cell trait is most common amongst us in the black community over any other racial group. With Republicans, it would be perfectly within a company’s rights to deny this medicine to ALL of their workers based on ideology, knowing full well it would primarily only affect the black community. This type of argument that they use can be used equally effectively against them, the difference is when we use it we are speaking from a world of reality.

My View on the Tax Structure of America

Unfortunately, we have an entirely unfair and unjust tax system in America. It is one that perpetuates a distribution of wealth in our country in a way that gives the most money through capital gains to the rich, and little to no money to the poor and middle classes. When a corporate giant pays 15% on its gains that are made after its initial investment, while a person working just to get by pays 30%, there’s something wrong. The tax structure allows for a select few (some call them the 1%) to pay less in taxes than their employees.

How is it that when one has the wealth to provide money to others, they do not have the wealth to provide more toward the public good than those they employ? It is a civic duty of those who have benefitted almost exponentially from the things the country provides to return the favor and pay their fair share in taxes as well. Taxes are not a choice, they are a mandatory cost to receiving the civic and social benefits that we all enjoy: highways, bridges, schools, healthcare, and all of the other things that the government provides.

Some say “well private industry can provide these things just as well.” To this I have two points:
1. When has private industry done anything perfectly well? Almost all corporations get to a point where one bad decision, one bad executive, one bad circumstance can render them no longer feasible to continue. Guess what? When they fail, guess who has to bail them out in order to keep our country from spiraling into decline? The government does, and if that corporation and its executives have not paid their fair share of taxes to the coffers of that which provides this bail out then they are basically getting a free ticket to do whatever they want to with no consequences.
2. This country, America, guess what makes it and keeps it America? The government! Without the government we would not have a military and therefore we would not even have this landmass to inhabit the way we do. The fact is that militaries can do what diplomacy eventually can’t, but diplomacy is always the first option (another feature of security that exclusively falls to the responsibility of the government).

The fact is that taxes are a necessary expenditure in life, and in order to live a just and proper life in America, one must pay his dues to ensure his neighbors, his children, and even possibly down the road he himself all have the means provided to them, should they need it, to live a good life. The disproportionate amount of wealth that is in the upper echelons of  our nation compared to the everyday person and worker is sickening and must be rectified.

Hello Everyone

This is a blog in which I will post my new-found views on politics and the political system. Ever since I have started to find my truth, I have learned that the political views I shared before are not those that I truly believe. I will use this blog to begin to discuss these views in hopes of sharing them with the world, and in time I hope for it to be beneficial to me in recording my thoughts.