Economic Policy
Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish represented the Party of Thrones as the Economic Adviser. He explains the view of the Party of Thrones to be a very conservative party with their primary focus to be on private businesses and putting money back into America's pocket. Their party hopes to encourage the growth of private businesses, decrease spending and pay back the debt. This decrease of spending is a tight fiscal policy, which has a tax rate increase. However, the Party of Thrones plans to lower the wealth tax. Anyone earning $457,601 or more will pay a tax rate of 39.6 percent. They wanted to lower the wealth tax so older and wealthier citizens could invest in businesses and jobs for the lower classes, a "trickle down" approach to wealth distribution. Petyr Baelish also mention a maximum taxation of 35 percent.
The Party of Thrones supports private education, and plans on cutting the government's spending on public education from $106 billion to $80 billion in order to "expand private education to the smallfolk". The Party of Thrones also wishes to cut the Environmental Protection Act. Doing so will make it easier for businesses and support all their business efforts. Petyr Baelish's party supports the death penalty and wants to try to make it cheaper and simpler by creating shorter waiting periods to save money.
Petyr Baelish also discussed the Party of Throne's plan to allow certain criminals the opportunity to serve their sentence working in the United States for the United States military and defense. They believe this will cost less money and help to rehabilitate non-violent criminals by helping them to learn practical skills. Being a part of the military will not protect them from the draft, but it will allow them to be doing something presumably useful with their incarceration time.
Another policy they propose is "MaesterCare", which will replace the Affordable Care Act. Basing their program off of similar Cuban efforts, Petyr Baelish estimated a 100 billion dollar budget. MaesterCare itself is carried out by "Maesters", government trained doctors and educators, in order to increase opportunities for new jobs and to save even more money.
Finally, they also proposed an immigration change. If elected, the Party of Thrones plans to construct seven hundred miles of fencing along primarily the Southern border to discourage illegal immigration and make legal border travel a more inviting option.
With their outlined changes, the Party of Thrones anticipated a $3.281 trillion revenue and saving money in the aforementioned and outlined budget cuts. Their plans and policies can be summarized best by the term “conservative”, they are for both private education and healthcare and aim to reverse foreign debt. Petyr Baelish stressed the importance of foreign debt by emphasizing the ability for the debt holder to raise the interest at any given time.
Generally, the party seemed to take their plans seriously which worked in favor for their professionalism, however some of the more drastic plans could have used a better explanation to make them appear more worthwhile and thought through. For example, while they showed great support for businesses and thorough evidence and explanation for taxation changes, they did not give particularly strong reasons for how the large immigration wall could be beneficial. The wall itself in concept was explained, as well as statistics for how well it was likely to work. But the cost and financial gains were not explained and seem too important to skip over.
By Anna