Robby Slaughter on the Issues

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rslaughter (rslaughter@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-06T07:41:05+00:00

Gun Legislation (Topics: Society & Culture | Firearms and Gun Control | Back to Home) We have to have laws about guns. We of course one we all know from 1791, the Second Amendment, which guarantees the right to bear arms [1]. But there are plenty more rules from those days which show that early Americans were interested in appropriate regulation as well. These include:

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rslaughter (rslaughter@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-06T07:23:06+00:00

firearms

rslaughter (rslaughter@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-06T06:49:58+00:00

Firearms and Gun Control (Topics: Society & Culture | Back to Home) You can find them in seemingly any home in America. In total, they number in the hundreds of millions. There is a purpose to this technology, and a long and important history---but that's not why we're talking about them. It's because of their inherent danger. Because of the accidents, the suicides, and the homicides. The threat is real, especially to our children. And still, too many of us don't bother to lock them up, those …

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rslaughter (rslaughter@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-04-05T09:25:44+00:00

Infrastructure (Topics: The Economy | Back to Home) “When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.

taxes_and_taxation

rslaughter (rslaughter@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-04-05T09:15:39+00:00

Taxes and Taxation (Topics: The Economy | Back to Home) Where to begin? Taxes may be the least understood and most broken part of the entirety of modern life. And there are three big problems: first, we don't like paying taxes, second, taxes are ridiculously complicated

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rslaughter (rslaughter@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-03-28T18:24:37+00:00

The D.C. Dormitory (Topics: Grab Bag | Back to Home) Here's a totally wild idea. Let's build a dormitory in D.C. It will be a building that houses all 535 members of Congress and they will be required to live there while in Washington. We can have a cafeteria and a meal plan.

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rslaughter (rslaughter@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-03-28T18:17:10+00:00

Hello, voter! Here's something you already know: it's not easy to find out what a politician is thinking. Most repeat a “stump speech” over and over again. If they do talk to reporters, they give scripted answers to controlled questions. Even the websites of candidates may list a few issues with little more than a

inflation

rslaughter (rslaughter@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-03-28T18:16:29+00:00

Inflation (Topics: The Economy | Back to Home) Something happens when you become an adult. You realize that stuff is more expensive than it used to be. This is an economic concept called inflation, and it's something we all have to know about. Inflation means that the total size of the economy is getting bigger

undebatable_positions

rslaughter (rslaughter@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-03-07T18:42:38+00:00

Undebatable Positions On lots of topics we can take different sides. It's easy to do this with a specifics: would you rather have a new city park or a new bypass on the highway? And sometimes the topic are divisive, but people still have different opinions.

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rslaughter (rslaughter@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-03-07T12:35:10+00:00

"Thing of Value" - Campaign Finance Reform (Topics: Administration & Security | Back to Home) To show just how far campaign finance reform is from the viewpoint of the average American, a great place to begin is with the phrase thing of value. This is a phrase from election law (and in fact many places in the law) which is so vague as to be almost meaningless. The two words mean exactly what they say:

campaign_finance

rslaughter (rslaughter@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-03-07T12:19:10+00:00

Campaign Finance Reform (Topics: Administration & Security | Back to Home) I could give you a big explanation about all the various ways that money gets into politics. Direct donations to candidates, donations to the party, donations to advocacy groups that support

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rslaughter (rslaughter@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-02-16T18:12:06+00:00

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