Something that grinds my nerves

[JNickel101]

An excellent idea, but the sticking point for me is making it a "revenue neutral" proposition.

No, make it a 7-10% tax, fire two-thirds of government (they're middle management anyhow,) stop paying Congresscrittes (who are, in the main, independently wealthy,) and stop paying retirement for Congresscritters ("politician" should never have become a career choice.)

The problem is that, in government, most of what we pay in goes to pay salaries for people who don't actually produce anything but - maybe! - fire-lighters and bog paper. So why are we paying them?

Make them go do something productive for a living, and we'll revalue the dollar!

x2 - FairTax isn't perfect, but its a start...

Lets not get started on Congress - we serve 20 years in the military to get retirement, they serve ONE TERM in Congress and get their paycheck for the rest of their life! Not to mention automatic pay raises....

 

[bigalpha]

Right behind our local college is a bunch of low-income housing called "Lincoln Heights".

Thing that really pisses me off is watching all these guy drive around in their Cadillacs or Cutlasses with new paint, rubber and rims.

 

[JNickel101]

Since kids can't - or won't - think for themselves anymore, they just see themselves as being pigeonholed into a spot and they think they can't get out of it (they're wrong - you can recover from a lot. But, they never flex their mental muscle, so they don't know what they can and can't do. Thus, they never make the attempt.)

And we wonder why so many "junior felons" come from welfare families...

its time for a heavy dose of chlorine in the "gene pool of today"