Occupy Wallsteet Needs to Focus to be Effective

I admit that I admire the youth of our nation not only complaining about government but getting involved and voicing their disgust and frustration with Washington and Politics in general.  Regardless of what side of the political isle you are on, we as Americans need to fix America.  For this to be accomplished the atmosphere of "My way or the Highway", Pay for a voice PAC and Super PAC politics and the inflated compensation plans for politicians needs to be stopped for us to become a true democracy where one voice truly does equal one vote.  And those who are part of the Occupy movement should make this their primary focus,and here is why.

In the news we are bombarded with stories regarding Occupy protests worldwide, but I hardly ever hear a concise message or talking points that they are fighting to achieve.  I get that they positioning themselves as a voice of the majority, a 99% one, and I through following the news and economy see the need for a "revolution" in our nation to equal the playing field for all Americans, but they never talk about how they want to do this and why it is so important an issue.  This will make it personal for people who are the working poor and middle class, who have jobs but still can not make ends meet.

Now for my 2 cents: I feel that they should take up the issue of campaign finance reform and tax code reform and throw their support behind candidates, regardless of political affiliation, who will push for it.  Until we can control and limit the amount of money that flows into the pockets of these candidates and PACs, and remove loopholes in our tax code we can never take back our government.  There are limitless ways for this to be accomplished but I favor a plan that accomplishes the following:

1. Caps the amount of money candidates can spend on campaigning, similar to baseball's salary cap.
2. All PAC adds need to be fact checked by their parties National Committee and false claims must be denounced.
3.   All PAC donations must be done under full disclosure and no anonymous donations are accepted.
4. Eliminate the loophole that allows for tax shelters to be set up in offshore account, although it is legal it is clearly a tax evasion technique used by the 1% almost exclusively.
5. End the tax break for monies made off wall street investments.  I can see no reason why INCOME made off of investments deserves a lower tax rate, especially since in the case of the stock market, there is not economic benefits.  If anything people who work for a paycheck should get the tax break.

These are just a few, let me know if you have another idea.

In the end, the Occupy movement is gaining support and is getting media coverage, but to mean the message is to undefined to get real traction.  In addition they need to create a central political party with a leadership structure to focus all efforts.

Jared