Government wish list – 1

More serious items –

• End war in Iraq
• Serious regulation of financial markets
• Graduated income tax on corporations, enough to make it unprofitable to be “too big to be allowed to fail”
• Much more steeply graduated income tax on individuals, more like it was before the Reagan era
• Normalization of relations with Cuba, allow free travel and trade
• Reconciliation of relations with Venezuela, Chavez doesn’t have to like us but we could quit calling him names

Less serious but I still wish:

• Invite Pete Seeger to perform at the inauguration. I would love to see Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie lead the entire nation in singing “This Land is Your Land.”