Simple solution…everyone moves up and the entry level jobs are the ones that open…unless the unemployed bring a superior skill set.
An elegant and simple solution:
Patriotic retirement:
There's about 40 million people over the age of 50 in the work force; pay them $1 million apiece severance with the following stipulations:
1) They leave their jobs. - Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.
2) They buy NEW American cars. - Forty million cars ordered - Auto Industry fixed.
3) They either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed.
They could call this instant reli! ef progr am the "Fifties Asset Relief Tender"...... or F.A.R.T.
I didn’t say a fair tax wouldn’t work. I said a flat tax wouldn’t work…at least not at the rates the American public would want it to in order to sustain the government as it cost under either George Bush or Ronald Reagan. Let’s not even go to the price of a Bill Clinton government. The Obama government (the Oministration) will not be satiated under any tax plan, least of all a flat tax. Es, a flat tax would work but your tax rate would be much higher, by at least twice, than it currently is. Even Bortz will tell you the “rich” pay somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 percent (plus?) of the tax base, the middle class picks up almost the remainder.
How about no pissing contests. We’re supposed to be on the same side and in-fighting is the last thing this movement needs.
You are correct. The Constitution defines our power.
I won’t get into a pissing contest with you because you have a chip on your shoulder. That’s not what this forum is all about. Sorry you can’t spell because of dyslexia. Most other do not have that excuse. And your own arrogance is showing…toward me in that you think you have me pigeon-holed by virtue of reading a few messages. Shame on you.
My apologies. You are, of course, correct. My initial answer was a merely a glib response and not as correct as it should have been. But your point was that we have rewritten the Constitution when we amended it. We haven’t. We just defined another piece of the complex equation.
Where shall we start…with women’s right to vote (19), abolishment of slavery (13), presidential succession (25)? How about reading them and you tell me which ones did not close a loophole or fix a problem. No fair using the 28th, Prohibition. That was tried, found distasteful, and repealed.
Good read and good on you for reading it. More of the folks on this post should do so. If you read my reasoning, you will see that I pointed out that a flat tax won’t work the way the pundits would like it to, not that it won’t work at all. It would work just fine if you don’t mind doubling your current tax rate. I would mind it very much. Check out those countries that use a flat tax system and you will see their tax rate is triple or quadruple that of the average US citizen. That is not the direction we should endeavor to go.
Exellent. A sane voice in the wilderness...and one who can spell! There is nothing wrong with our current set of laws and parameters for running this country, but we must force our leasers to adhere to them.
3. Agreed. It's time to stop the career politician. If he or she is good enough, he or she will be able to move to another elected position.
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