I would abolish income tax and charge a 20% (or whatever works) sales tax on every penny traded for goods and services.
Seems to easy--but I'm all up for trying new things. My biggest argument with the government is how slowly it moves. We'd be better suited to trying crazy shit like this and changing it to a different idea if it doesn't work than doing
nothing.
I would pay for social services to be policed. The government titty would dry up.
Couldn't agree with you more. I grew up surrounded by section 8, lots of abuse here. Anyone who needs it would pass by any policing efforts. Trick would be to not get insane with the rules--stick with some common sense stuff and make an oversight committee.
End congressional lobbying.
If you want this and you don't vote for Barack Obama--you're acting like you don't want this. We don't have a bad and a good option here. We have a terrible option and a better one (that isn't awesome still).
Eating shit is better than eating arsenic. I present to you the current election.
I would find out why the fuck medicine costs so much....and correct the inflated costs. Government research grants fund all of it. They would comply with whatever they were told.
Nope this shit actually just costs this much. I actually know an ass ton about this--my thesis addresses an issue of cost efficiency in a particular drug (for which I have developed, with my professor, a more efficient synthesis).
A hint:
Part of why this costs so much is that when I'm done with school I'll have somewhere in the area of 100K student debt--and I wouldn't even be the highest paid member of a team, but you can bet I'll be starting at around 80K/yr and moving my way on up through the 100's after a few years. Little more school in my case can equal a lot more money--and a company may even end up footing this bill. So they pay to send me to school so they can pay me 80K more/yr.
I'll take it, but it's a shit model. I'd be fine making less if I didn't have such an albatross.
No its not true that I dont like him , in general. He has had the hope of the Left on his shoulders...my hope. I am disappointed.
I actually wasn't talking to you on this one--but your opinion seems heartfelt.
Are you seriously asking me if I can perform miracles?
Nope, I'm telling you that the republican party thinks they can--and that their proof that they'll do a better job is that Obama is not perfect and cannot perform miracles.
I have no clue if I would do a worse job...he sucks pretty bad.
You totally would--it's a difficult job. No offense, I'd be the shittiest president ever. Impeached in like 2 months. I'd totally whip your ass at being bad at it.
I think the failure of the left, now and for a long time running, has been expecting perfection.
The republican party believes in its own perfection--because it's modeled after God's perfect plan for God's perfect country. That's an easy message to get behind for god-fearing folk.
The left believes in pretty much
everything else politically (and sometimes the same as above socially). The failure of the left will be in not realizing that the battle is indeed between who want's the bible and family values to be legislated into law--and who does not.
A vote for no one is a vote for family values, prohibitions, censorships, and general wankeriness.
Sadly, most people who would more readily side with the left than the right see no point and don't vote.
If only they could see that they are essentially voting republican. They have no such woes--they are really quite a united party, despite being a smaller and smaller minority of the country with each passing year they still clean house.
If everyone would wake up and realize that its not a conspiracy theory of how they're all puppets. In fact it is a flat out plan for the right to make everyone follow God's infallible word. They don't even try to hide this. It's not the subject of debate--they will tell you to your face.
And yet we want to worry about how the guy we have isn't perfect.
In comparison with
THAT? Are you serious?
Mitt Romney?
If John Kerry was a flip-flopper I really don't know what the fuck you call this guy--or Fox news, or most republicans I run into.
I mean dude his saying anything to become president has become so ubiquitous I'm confident in claiming I could have 20 audio clips where he's totally contradicted himself within 10 minutes from now--because he's done so much of this that there must be 20 websites who have compiled all these fuck ups.
He's so bad I don't even think he knows what he believes.
What's really sad is that people don't realize how crucial this moment really is for America (not the election, but the next 20 years). In the next decades we will decide the fate of the next 10 generations of Americans. All the smart money is on us losing our status, the world over.
Somethings gotta give. I can tell you what won't fix it. Richer "job creators".
It's going to be investing in infrastructure--subsidizing manufacturing. Overhauling the education system (
or else--so help me), getting our science and technology back in line with countries like Japan and Germany.
All of this bickering and fighting over gay marriage and when life begins and what-the-fuck-ever pays no mind to reality. The world moves fast these days. America moves perhaps the most slowly of any country to react to these changes. Its not sustainable.
We need to agree. We don't. We can't.
We refuse to debate logically and instead are always looking for the "one up". This point is made here so clearly that it could be invisible and I'd still smell it.
Logic is dead. Knowing what's best is alive.
Age of Reason ----> Age of Ego
*golfclap*
/Canada
