I am proud to be an American, but what I hate is when I hear people complaining about having this or that. Go south 300 or so miles, and you'l find a social system with an insane amount of poor and a handful of rich people. The rich use the poor to gain money. The poor work for weeks to feed their families. They always work, because if they stop even an hour, they will not have enough money to continue. So, America, quit yer whinin'.
Here's my ideas for a tax system that would make it easy on everyone, and put some balance back into our economy. No income or property tax, with a handful of exceptions (say for $1M+ salaries, with adjustment for inflation). Just sales tax. You can invest, spend money on necessities, and you avoid these taxes (or get reduced rates for investing in some forms). Then, that way, one can get the necessities at rock-bottom price, enjoy a house, enjoy a modest income, and pretty mu...
Napolitano's done it again. I mean, with Biden, how can she look bad? To tell you the truth, in Arizona under her governing, everything went in the craphole, and now she's homeland security chief? She's called a fair deal of normal people "extremists", even going so far as to accuse them of racism. She doesn't seem to have huge amounts of legal experience, and she knocks Sheriff Joe, who is earnestly trying, unlike she is. She doesn't even seem to care about getting her facts straight. And th...