Email #3

Your website makes no mention of the role of strict immigration limits on long waiting lists for legal immigration of skilled workers, academics, and the like, who could make an immediate and beneficial contribution to the American economy and public discourse.

Would you support as President, or introduce this year as a Senator, legislation to increase the limit by a factor of five or eliminate it for these categories of immigrants?

If the reader of this email would send acknowledgement of receipt to the above address, it would be appreciated.

Email #2:

As President, or this year, as a Senator, would you support or introduce legislation that would provide economic incentives to major urban areas (say, with over half a million residents) to develop, expand, or improve mass transit systems? These have major economic and environmental benefits, and also revitalize urban centers.

Today, I emailed the following to both of the major parties' presumptive nominees (to suggest policies, go to http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/mypolicy and http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/), who both trumpet a cap-and-trade system as their method of reducing carbon emissions:

I understand that it is almost never politically viable to propose a tax increase of any sort. However, a carbon tax (or gasoline tax) would be a much more economically efficient method of reducing carbon emissions than the propsed cap-and-trade system on your website. Why do you support cap-and-trade over a carbon tax?

The carbon tax proposal could be coupled with an income tax cut for the bottom half of wage earners with a revenue-equivalent of approximately three-fourths of the expected revenue from the carbon tax, with the last fourth going to either paying down the federal debt or giving incentives for alternative energy developement.