Arbin Shiwakoti Professor Sherry Sharifian GOVT 2306 27th September 2017 RUNNING FOR SENATE REPRESENTING DEMOCRATIC PARTY Texas is the second largest state in the United States of America. Controlling the second largest state of US is a real big deal. To run this state and its components the Texas government has been divided into three main branches, the legislative, executive, and judicial branch of government. “The legislative branch consists of house and the senate who are chiefly responsible for making laws, regulate commerce, control taxes, declare war, etc. 1 The executive branch consists of President including his/her advisors and agencies and is responsible for enforcing the laws of the land. The judicial branch consists …show more content…
These clauses are meant for the government officials to limit their power and to eliminate fraud and corruption among the government officials. “In practical use, the authority to take a given action rests with one department, while the responsibility to verify the appropriateness and legality of that action rests with another.” (https://www.thoughtco.com/separation-of-powers-3322394). Interest groups and other political parties also have much to do with the politics of Texas. They try to influence people by their goals and objectives and try to organize individuals with similar interests and associating the state to the national political system. They influence the individuals through lobbying, petitions, media campaigns and many other categories that will help the political groups to get people into their party so that they can get more support from the common people to advance their …show more content…
The issues that I stand with as I will run as a democrat senate are proportional tax system, equal employment opportunities to all the residents of the state and government support for the education of the youths as well as interested people who cannot afford to pay their tuition. Going through the party platform of the democrats, it is overall agreeable and consists of every detail of rules and laws that would be required for the smooth flow of the political environment as well as the residents. My ideas of equal employment opportunities ang support for education align with the party platform of the democratic party platforms. Whereas, my idea of proportional tax system diverges from that of the party platform as they have a progressive tax system. This idea of proportional tax system should be added on the party platform as it gives all the tax payers to pay the taxes depending n how much they make. For instance, making a 10% tax payment by the rich, middle class and poor gives all three categories of people equal opportunities to pay tax depending on how much they earn. I also conclude that, this idea of proportional tax system will help me get elected on the senate as most of the people will surely come in this favor of my idea of proportional tax