Sir Robin, the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot.
Who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor.
Who had almost stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol.
And who had personally wet himself, at the Battle of Badon Hill.
I voted D. I'm cool with controlled socialism, but I don't think that means we need to take an antagonistic stance towards big business and business profit control.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
I already left California for Texas, but it had nothing to do with tax rates.
Honestly, I think wealthy people who live in CA don't do it because of the state's fiscal policy. They do it because it's a beautiful state, a wonderful place to live, with a strong university system spitting out quality employees for their companies, with good weather and lots of nature. I don't see a tax hike causing those people to leave en masse.
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Yeah, B was better than A, mostly because A was vague and it's possible to take it too many bad directions, but I'd definitely like to see a few more socialistic things better implemented in the US, like a single payer healthcare system.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Voted C for a multitude of reasons. The US is in crisis because we are constantly spending more than we take in because we are to busy planning on how we can get more money. Out of the 200mil adults in this country 110 mil work in the private sector and pay taxes. 88mil collect from the taxes paid in for thier income. Whether it be government workers, unemplyment, welfare or social security. There isnt enough money to go around anymore. We need less spending and more working. Imo retirement needs to be uped to 75. If you have a legit reason to retire before then you can. You can only collect for as many years as you were in the work force. If you didnt pay in you should have. Stop scum from collecting in this country by locking out government assistance to all imigrants. If you want to come here they should bring the funding they need. We need to have a flat tax what you earn is your money not everyones.
We just cant keep on this path of government spending. If we scale back the government its less spending. Why we need federal, state and town government today baffles me with the ease of communication today.
Cut spending on border patrols by making imigrants not have a reason to come. We dont have the money to spend on anymore people. Cut back on the war on drugs. Make weed legal and tax the crap out of it. Make it illegal to grow your own just like moonshine. The ease of buying it will win over and we could clear some of the debt.
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Just wanted to add one more big cut that none of the young people here are going to like. We need to reall scale back loans on education. There are a lot of jobs out there in trades that are being worked by former college kids in debt. An education does not i repeat does not mean a better life. The debt being saddle by the youth today is stupid. Kids need to told your dumb go to work not saddle them with debt before they figure it out. Even if you finish try and find a job. Most likely youll fid theres 300 people with the same qualifacations as you because everyone needs to go yo college in the world today.
I voted B. It was not too long ago that America had a very strong economy with a budget surplus, and we didn't get there through Socialism or complete free market capitalism.
Actually the biggest problem they've had is the ridiculous amounts spent on public unions.
That kind of spending is to be expected when "collective bargaining" involves more or less telling an appointed official how many tax dollars you want and them just giving it to you.
I will support complete communism with a superpower computer at its head. Its repairing and governence also beign done by lesser robots. Think skynet without killing part. Basicly everything that we ever need to do being done by self automated robots and a powerful supercomputer making the decisions.