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U.S needs to start fresh

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-25 19:14

I realized that inorder for start ups,and business to hire more people, the U.S needs a complete reboot.

Here's how we can do it.


1. Look at taxes,and how damn messed up the system is.

--We need to get rid of 100 Percent of all current taxes,inorder to allow the US create a fresh environment,for business in the US.

--We would replace all the current taxes with a single consumption tax. This means,you only get taxed on how much you spend.  NOT ON YOUR FRUITS OF LABOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!(INCOME TAX)


2.We need to bring back the gold standard!
--So no more devaluing of our precious dollar's value!

3.Balanced Budget Amendment!
--The government arn't our lords,so they should not beable to spend more than what they bring in! Just like a citizen could!


4.Every budget GOV should get cut a flat across the board, 25 percent.
Military,Education,Welfare,subsides,farming...ect..ect!

5.A temporary block on environmental restrictions,until the unemployment rate,reach a certain number!

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-27 23:53

>>12
 The statistic your using is 6 years old, and refers to 18 year old citizens. Im receding to the 2009/2010(can't remember which year) gdp average of the country. Take the national debt, divide it by the nations population. Now you get a gross average per citizen for how much money it would take to pay off the debt per citizen for example. Your looking at the estimated debt per citizen. But that's off topic.

About the social security, here's what I have wrong with it.
Social security was made in the 60s to create a solution to people aging longer but could not work due to their age. The idea on how you worked was to do hard labor till at the latest of 50 years old and then work,  let's say, a cashier job at a store (a much less physical job). Over the years as the quality of life, medicine, etc furthered people could not work past the age of 60 or so. Social security,  in simple form, is the working public paying to keep the elderly living because the elderly at some point was putting money into the country.

When social security was new the age to start collecting social security was low. Since the age limit was low, a 55 year old man for example,  could be collecting social security while working a low paying job at a store. So that they could make it by even though their working cababilitys weren't up to par with the younger generation.

Over the years more people started collecting social security, and decided not to work. Since the start of social security the pay rate to those collecting from social security has risen by over 400% (even while following the inflation rate). This is because those collecting social security have used their checks to live off of. While this pay out increases, so does social security tax on our paychecks.

So after all that, here is why I have a problem with social security. As people live longer, and the baby boomers have almost fully come into social security collections, we have never before seen so many people collecting social security checks. In todays economy, the unemployment rate is over 30% the government recommended "safe level of unemployment" (4-6%). With such a high unemployment rate, less money is going into the social security system. Which means low income to the program, more people going into the program, then there's even more that either the government has to pick up or tax onto the social security tax. If the tax is raised, problem dep't with. Id the government picks up the check, income tax raises or less money is put into some other government funded program/service.

And I do believe the age requirement to collect social secuirty was raised recently. I think it moved from 65-70.

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