SB33

SB33

**__ Mind Your Own Business __**

Oliver Hesmondhalgh- Alaska- Moderate Johnny Jacob- Florida- Moderate Logan Kocianic- Ohio- Moderate

__**Purpose:**__ The purpose of this bill is to stay out of foreign country’s conflicts unless directly connected. Today, the United States is acting like the policemen of the world. We are sending thousands of troops and supplies into conflicts in countries that don’t even involve us. This is costing a lot of money, supplies, and lives. Of course these countries need help, and that is the second part of this bill. The second part of this bill is to teach locals in these foreign countries how to defend themselves. This will benefit them and us. It will benefit us eventually by letting us take out all of our troops and equipment and save ourselves money and lives.

__**Eligibility:**__ People who will be affected by this bill will be everyone who is a legal citizen of the United States, including military personnel. Persons in the military and army will be affected because they will either be selected to stay in foreign countries to teach locals how to defend themselves, or they will be selected to leave their stations and come back home. Legal citizens of the United States will be affected in two ways. One way is that at first, taxes will be higher than usual to pay for the supplies and transportation of troops. Then once all troops are pulled out and done teaching locals, taxes will be much lower than usual because the U.S. government will not have to fund the army or military overseas.

__**Terms and Benefits:**__ Those affected by this bill will be all legal citizens of the United States, especially the military and army. There are only two short disadvantages to this bill. One is that at first, taxes will be higher than usual to pay for the transportation of supplies and troops. But once all troops are pulled, taxes will be significantly lower for the reason that the U.S. government will not have to fund military or army troops overseas. The one other penalty is that citizens of distant countries will have no protection from their government or other bad people in their region. This problem is why we have two phases of our bill. The second phase includes selecting some troops to stay in other countries to teach citizens to protect themselves. Both major problems in our bill eventually fix themselves. This bill should be in effect for an infinite time. It will benefit people all around the world. Today, taxes are very high to fund things in the U.S., including the military category. Our bill requires taxes to be raised slightly for a short period of time. This raised revenue will pay to transport troops and equipment back to the U.S. It will also pay for the teachers and supplies that will be used to educate citizens of countries in trouble. The cost of components such as operations and maintenance, military personnel, research, development, testing, and evaluations for the military alone came to a grand total to about $683.7 billion in 2010. Most of this spent money went to the wars in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries whose governments are unstable. Since our bill includes the evacuation of troops and supplies, we hope to get the grand total of expenditure down to approximately $484.9 billion. This is because the Defense Intelligence, FBI counter-terrorism, and international affairs sections of the funds will be reduced but not diminished. This reduced price does not even include the reduction of transportation costs or equipment costs. So in the long run, this bill will lower both taxes and the costs of military funds. __**Timeline:**__ 1) Taxes will be raised slightly to pay for transportation and training 2)The U.S has 200,000 troops in 150 foreign nations. 3)Fifty percent of these troops and equipment will be withdrawn. 4)The other fifty percent of troops and equipment will remain for about 3 years to train local citizens 5)Once training is completed, the remaining troops and equipment will be transported back to the U.S. 6) Taxes will be significantly lower because the government will not have to fund the military overseas
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