# If you could be the founder of your own political party...

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**Created:** [August 19, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-the-founder-of-your-own-political-party/695957 "2014-08-19T23:47:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-the-founder-of-your-own-political-party/695957/9 "2014-08-20T07:02:17Z")

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> [@Velocity](#):
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> I’d make my party very liberal - the Spoiler Election Party.
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> 1. Universal single-payer health care
> 2. The Second Amendment would be repealed and private gun ownership banned entirely.
> 3. Welfare and unemployment assistance would be doubled.
> 4. Get rid of all nuclear weapons in the US arsenal.
> 5. Military spending would be cut in half.
> 6. Cut all U.S. carbon emissions in half in a decade’s time.
> 7. All taxes on the wealthy would be doubled.
> 8. Drastically increase corporate taxes.
> 9. The minimum wage would be raised to $20/hour.
> 10. Capital punishment would be abolished.
> 11. Have ten million hydrogen-powered cars on the road in 10 years.
> 12. Have the government control most of the media.

I’m supposing this is the example of the cracked view Conservatives have of Liberals?

I like 1, and 10.

My spoiler party would be to court the Libertarians.

1. No minimum wage.
2. No unions.
3. No inheritance tax (called the Death Tax by people who don’t understand taxation)
4. Flat Tax.
5. No EPA, DEA, FDA, DoE or DHHS.
6. Universal open carry and concealed carry.
7. Gold Standard.
8. For profit prisons and orphanages.
9. Roads paid for by tolls.
10. Re-legalization of dueling, indentured servitude and child labor.

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