Manifesto Essay.

Kevin Volk- My manifesto on the Government unit.

The role of the Government.
The Government has a very diverse amount of expectations. but what are they? Everyone has their own opinion how the country should be run, and in all honesty, there is no "right" way to run a country. yet there are definitively wrong ways to run a country. (i.e. Kill everyone.) At any rate, I personally think the government's power and influence should vary via the condition of: The economy, foreign relations, and unhappy citizens.
In more a more detailed fashion; when the economy is being "special" for whatever reason, it's the governments task to do something about it, not fight, bicker and tell everyone "Every thing is a-okay!". It is their task to execute whatever (or whoever...)  is necessary to recover from the recession. even at the cost of popularity.
And in the case of foreign relations; it is the task for the government to keep diplomacy fair between other countries. and in the case of war it is to rally, organize, and defend their country against the offender.
Oh and stuff like SOPA is none of the government's concern.

Taxation.
Now, here is the part some people cannot stand, yet everyone must pay; Taxes. Everyone must pay taxes, it keeps government defense online, infrastructure, and other services. but not everyone agrees how taxes should be paid. Yet one could find that progressive taxes are the most fair, they add higher taxes on those who really can afford to pay more taxes. While some argue that in discourages working to earn a high pay, the ratio of money taxed, and money made gets lower. Meaning regardless of the fact that your taxes are higher, you're still making a lot more money. However, the Progressive tax isn't perfect, and is in desperate need of reform. When the books of rules, loop-holes is 30,000 pages long, one can go rather bald one April 15th...

 If I were in charge (there's a terrifying thought...) I would make it so that the more money you make, the less loop-holes you have. Or simply cut them all together. reducing the number of loopholes to about a hundred or so, and end at ten for the rich. keeping it simple and easy.  As for administrating the Taxes, by making them a lot simpler I hope to decrease the amount of money spent on collecting taxes. Hopefully reducing the IRS's budget, and not being as wasteful.

Deficit spending- (Derp)
Now here is ANOTHER problem that this country seems to have gotten itself into. I believe that the government should be able to deficit spend, but where do we draw the line? To be blunt, it would be rather difficult to govern the governments ability to deficit spend. for two reasons- It's rather difficult to put laws into the government, when they can (theoretically) just change them again. Not to mention that, who or what determines where the line is drawn? Deficit spending can be rather good for the economy. On the other hand, it can be really bad for an economy. During WWII the government spent it's way to hell, but that made us the most economically powerful country in the world. while the current situation is... just depressing.

 so where exactly should the American public draw the line on government answers? There really isn't an official way to govern that. I guess one must just leave it to the honor system to have the government be prudent about it's spending. (i.e. not the current situation.)

Message to "The Boss"
I honestly wanted to make the Role of the Government two paragraphs, I can go on forever about that. taxes and deficit spending in my opinion are rather straight forward.