RANT: This is MESSED UP – Someone in CSC is seemingly unethical.

[TFOGGuys]

We also have the disadvantage of land based boarders. Crossing from Canada to the US unobserved is pretty easy. I did it a bunch of times when I lived in Northern Idaho and guided mountaineering trips. Mexico, while moderately more challenging still isn't nearly as difficult as crossing an ocean in a freakin' rowboat. The cubans who make it to florida on rafts probably have a pretty good idea, but even that distance is small compared to how far you'd have to go to get to AU or NZ.

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Put another way: A 12000 foot deep, 3000 mile wide moat is pretty effective at keeping the riffraff out...

[Kristian]

I'm gonna catch hell for this, but we don't vote. Some will say I have no room to complain, then. I have every right to raise hell as I didn't put any of these dip shits in office.

When there's no one to vote for, how can you in good conscious vote just to say you voted?!?!?

You need to get involved earlier in the process when/if there is someone who is aligned with your vision! Then you can vote, complain and offer a solution. Not necessarily in that order.

[rforsythe]

Could you imagine if we only let productive people in the country. Of course, then the true laziness of Americans would show through, but what the hell...

Yeah, someone mistook 'productive' for 'reproductive'.

Hey someone was gonna say it.

[usmcab35]

Volunteering?

haha no but i want to see someone getting the wrath of the mighty rybo...

[jbnwc]

I'm gonna catch hell for this, but we don't vote. Some will say I have no room to complain, then. I have every right to raise hell as I didn't put any of these dip shits in office.

I think it's much worse that so many people vote, but have no idea who they are voting for or what the amendments, etc are all about.

[jbnwc]

I say we eliminate the horrific mess of the income tax system and do something like the Fair Tax, removing the ability of the Federal government to wield power and divide us the way it does currently.

I'm listening to these videos and this FAIR Tax is freakin' brilliant!

[Kim-n-Dean]

I think it's much worse that so many people vote, but have no idea who they are voting for or what the amendments, etc are all about.

AMEN!!!!!

[Kim-n-Dean]

You need to get involved earlier in the process when/if there is someone who is aligned with your vision! Then you can vote, complain and offer a solution. Not necessarily in that order.

The problem is that even if they do have ideas I agree with, they have many more that I don't or they have been proven crooks.

I would be embarrassed to admit I'm a politician, yet they think their shit don't stink!!

[will-t]

I'm listening to these videos and this FAIR Tax is freakin' brilliant!

So the fair tax calculator on that site which I'm guessing is supposed to show you all the money you'd be saving with a fair tax is kinda funny.

Mine shows things like:
Current purchasing power: 80.58%
Current Taxes: 16.31%
Fairtax purchasing power: 76.16%
FairTax Taxes: 19.99%

and I love the side bar:
negative 5% MORE spendable income
negative $2000 MORE purchasing power
negative $2000 LESS federal taxes

LOL

Maybe instead of using their calculator as propaganda they should just have it give factual answers and let you decide if it's better or worse than current. Or at least make it so negative numbers just show up as zeros.

[Kim-n-Dean]

Ooops

[Kim-n-Dean]

Put another way: A 12000 foot deep, 3000 mile wide moat is pretty effective at keeping the riffraff out...

That's good!!

[dirkterrell]

Maybe instead of using their calculator as propaganda they should just have it give factual answers and let you decide if it's better or worse than current. Or at least make it so negative numbers just show up as zeros.

I actually like that they are honest about it. I too would pay a bit more. The biggest pluses to the FT in my mind are the simplification of the taxation system and the resulting reduction in the ability of the politicians to use the tax code to pursue their moral agendas via government power.