A quick tax Idea I had after the local primary

[NisseHult101]

Yep, taxdollars would be much better spent on education than on military. I think I read somewhere that most military spending have pretty much the same economic "benefit" to society as setting the equivalent amount of money on fire...

BTW, I liked the "Kansas Classrooms" cartoon! :-)

[Misterb0z]

You're not advocating *democracy*, are you? Dangerous radical! ; )

[pedroquintero]

I like the idea, the war would have been over from lack of funding. We should just get rid of congressmen period and just vote everything ourselves.

[anubis2814]

@pedroquintero That would be pretty expensive with the number of votes needed to be cast. Elections are freaking expensive mostly for security reasons. Also people are easily swayed, though politicians are pretty easily swayed by the money and lobbyists.

[pedroquintero]

@anubis2814

I think a lobbyist free voting system will save money in the long run. Sure it will be more expensive, but i'm sure it's chump change compared to how much we spend on the military and other services.

[christo930]

Lack of tax money isn't what is screwing up the public school system. Let's try breaking the teachers unions, after all, public education is for the students, not the teachers. Stop rewarding failing schools with more money. The poorest performing schools in my city get the most money and the best performing get no money, where is the incentive to raise the performance?

[anubis2814]

Respond to this video...Um, maybe because the worst schools have the worst parents and the best schools have parents that actually give a shit about their child's education? Parental involvement is the number one importance on a child's education and longer term IQ. Grades are not everything when it comes to school, many schools are given broken kids to work with, and they limp along. They need all the help they can get and if they can educate these broken kids that will reduce crime.

[christo930]

@anubis2814 I am not talking about special schools for dealing with problem kids. Teachers unions really distort the education system by rewarding seniority and not performance. They make getting rid of bad teachers impossible and other problems. Solutions to gov problems are always more money, ever notice that?

[TheGreatOldOnes]

@christo930

actually under no child let behind, the better your school is the more money it makes.

[christo930]

@TheGreatOldOnes I am only going by the rules of the district I live in, not federal rules.

[ijitdunn]

I know this is a silly comment to waste your time with, but I couldn't stop laughing at the captions under that "Lame" Picture.

[lamjer68]

I personally think this country should go for a consumption tax. That way you can tax all illegals, and tourists and such.

[anubis2814]

@lamjer68 Zaunstar makes a great video against the fair tax.  Though you may be thinking of a VAT.

[MinervaInTheBrain]

Most states already do this, I think it's Vermount that is the only state that doesn't have a constitutional balanced budget. Ballot measures to the voters can override this constraint on single issues.

[anubis2814]

@MinervaInTheBrain I meant doing this on a federal level.

[Primalxbeast]

Americans are too ignorant to value science. People are brain-washed by the church into believing science is evil, why would they vote for their taxes to be spent on it?

[unassumption]

I don't trust a majority. I don't trust myself. We need to keep the people feeling powerful, and like they live in a democracy, but 2 parties is pseudo people power. They aren't qualified; have the experts decide. Whoever the experts are.