Flaws in the US Government(revised)

As a United States (US) citizen I have the freedom of speech, which gives me the right to criticize the US government. Like many US citizens, I find there are reasons to criticize the government based on how the system has been corrupt and unfair.

Why must the wealthy and successful have a larger tax percentage than others? I believe the amount the government taxes the people should be an equal percentage regardless of what one earns. For example, I think Bill Gates should pay the same percentage of his income to the government that I do, although obviously the amount would not be equal. This would benefit the economy and the US because it would encourage people to work harder, and with the extra money they are earning they can put it back into the economy. The down fall of this tax reform is a US citizen that make very little the tax rate will go up. The advantage of the reform is it would encourage all US citizens to work harder because no matter how much they make there tax percent that is taken out will still be the same.

In addition to unfair taxation, I believe the political parties are not good for the government. For example, most US citizens do not watch or research candidates running for offices. Instead, they choose the candidate that is in their same political party. What makes the Democrat and Republican's party so much better than third parties? In my opinion a third party can be better for the US rather than the democratic or republican parties because it would promote more critical thinking about the candidates rather than just choosing a candidate based on his or her party. Although having no political parties I think would be best for the US, I don’t know if the solution is possible. Instead we can create more parties and not have US citizens declare their political party.

In this 2008 presidential election both Obama and McCain are talking about reforming the government. However, I think the third party's is in a better position to bring reform based on previous performance of these parties. Yet we have not much about those running on a third party ticket, because they have no chance of winning the election. This is because the Republicans are going to vote for the Republicans and the Democrats are going to vote for the Democrats (this is not true for all elections but just an opinion).

Another reason why political parties are bad for US citizens is based of the ties the political parties develop before becoming in power. What I mean by this is political parties raise money for their candidates who are running for office. Although candidates need this money in order promote their campaign, the place they get this money is not always good for the people. For example, if tobacco industries give a candidate $200,000 to help win the election, that candidate may be less likely to make laws that will hurt the tobacco company and more likely to ignore US citizens' concerns.


Our country could be a much better place if our government would clean up its corrupt and unfair policies. At the moment our government is diminishing our potential to be successful. I hope some day these changes will be made.