Upgrade to enjoy this feature!
Vital MX fantasy is free to play, but paid users have great benefits. Paid member benefits:
- View and download rider stats
- Pick trends
- Create a private league
- And more!
Only $10 for all 2024 SX, MX, and SMX series (regularly $30).
P
P
The Shop
2. New foreign policy of non-intervention unless an immediate threat to the sovereignty of the US. Removal of all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. No exceptions. Back this by an immediate institution of the draft for EVERYONE aged 18-35, no exceptions, and all politicians immediate family members must serve on the front lines of military action is ever used, even without the declaration of war. Roll back of foreign bases and re-deployment at our borders.
3. Removal of the Fed and Central banks. Distribute cash directly from the government, with no interest loans to consumers and businesses who have a credit rating of 730 and above. Use the IRS as the collection agency (if you default, your wages are immediately garnished), the GAO to track the loans. Small banks will still stay in business, competing for those who need loans but have bad credit.
4. Nationalize health care for EVERYONE.
5. National sales tax replaces all income tax.
1. Dump the failed notion that the Federal government can fix it.
2. Start looking at what government does to hinder it and get rid of it.
3. Stop this idiotic volleyball game that government plays with taxes and regulation.
4. Stop taxing corporations and businesses.
P
They should pay people $4000 for their $500 P.O.S. cars.
They should give wall street and the auto makers $100's of billions of dollars...
Oh, wait...never mind.
2. Here in California, the Air Resources Board through local enforcers, have driven away most of the blue collar manufacturing jobs. Those are the jobs that highschool grads used to use to enter the middle class. Now we can see Mt. Wilson every day from the unemployment line. They went too far and were too gestapo like. That's just one example. Overzealous regulating.
3. Every time we get a new party in the white house, they start by wanting to fuck with the tax code. It creates uncertainty for the people who do create jobs.
4. Businesses do not pay taxes, they collect them. Government, and especially Democrats, like to use this method for gaining revenue because it's an easy way to tax their own base without their realizing it. It also makes our businesses less competitive with over seas competition. In some cases it compels companies to move overseas, taking the jobs with them.
the only one i heavily disagree with is #4 on ur list.
a) i dont see where the money is gonna come from
b) i dont see why obesity, smoking related issues, and cancer (that comes from well known products we use every day) should be the tax payers burden
c) while were at it, should we nationalize food care for EVERYONE? autocare? etc etc etc.
d) healthcare is bad for our species. that may sound bad, but its the truth. it keeps the worst our genetics have to offer, alive and procreating. and health certainly isnt a birthright. it isnt in any other form of nature, i dont understand why we should feel different. nature is efficient and it works. the further we get from it's system, the worse we will be.
a lot of the onus of fixing our economy falls on us the citizens. stop spending outside our means, and stop working for the govt or govt related industries. work in a profession that builds our economy. not sucks off its tit. all gov't programs/jobs/etc take away from the industries that actually build and grow our economy.
but c'mon, we all know none of this shit is gonna happen.
P
The main thing to do is recognize why we are where we are, and avoid quick-fix gimmicks; this isn't a business cycle recession like we've had periodically since 1980 where business builds and overheats and has a natural cycle of slowing back down. Governments can fix business cycle recessions, but not balance sheet recessions. Government can do good things like hiring unemployed people to fix and build things, but the main thing they have to do is recognize that this isn't going to go away until individuals and companies have decreased their debt - when they do that and spending returns to normal, THEN government can fix their problem. If government tries to fix their problem at the same time, no matter how they do it, they're going to make things worse. Government can do specific things that will help, like trying to employ people to do projects that need to be done anyway, but if they try to drastically cut spending while individuals and companies are also cutting spending, they're going to drive the car back into the ditch that they've spent two years trying to get out of.
The good news is that people and companies are fixing their problem pretty quickly. US corporations are accumulating a LOT of cash, and people have decreased their debt to income ratios from around 135% in 2007 to about 118% today. That's good progress. I don't know how Europe is doing, but I think most of the big European economies are at least flat in GDP growth and some are pretty positive. We can't "get well" without Europe and they can't do it without us, but there's good progress being made.
Everybody in my generation needs to understand that we partied hearty but now it's Monday morning and we have to clean up the mess before our parents get home. It's only a small percentage of people who get this. That's because the media and the politicians are lying to us.
You have to stop the party before you can clean up the mess, and those who partied the hardest are still at it, continuing to create even more of mess.
That's our fault for buying them more beer.
P
Pit Row
It's government that needs to stop the partying. The rest of us are already dealing with it.
There's a shit pot of money going in to health care. The only reason we system is the state of politics.
Borg has some good ideas as well, but they are less concrete. Most of those issues like regulation come from government trying to influence outcomes (like supporting ethanol or Solyndra). It's a circular motion of money and power and the politicians and the corporations like it as it is.
The only one that made sense was jtoms.
2) Get rid of the IRS. It's not only a pain in the fucking ass to do your taxes each year, it's expensive and there are too many loopholes. Should just be a flat tax or fair tax.
3) Get rid of payroll tax. That will put real money in your pocket each paycheck instead of being taxed to death. You can then decide how you want to spend your money instead of the government deciding for you. There is about 25% that comes out of your paycheck and that should be all your money. It's just plain robbery. You can then decide if you want money taken out for health insurance, etc.
3) Need to start bringing jobs back to the U.S. Manufacturing jobs that is. Too many products are being made overseas.
4) Let the States have more power on how they want to run things instead of the federal government.
5) You have to cut spending.
P
Post a reply to: How to get the economy going