Considering we live in the same area and are about the same age, I can agree with this. Although, as Trinick said, the top 2 percent are already being taxed 30%, so do we go higher?
Maybe just income, but you have to consider capital gains, property tax, and payroll.
psst, hey guys, we could just stop fighting random ass wars over oil and start looking over alternative energy.
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In reality, we need to stop spending on stuff we don't need, *ahem* military *ahem* and start paying off the debt.
yup. 57 percent of our money goes to military and we outspend the next 13 nations combined, including some of our allies.
for instance, 1.5 million dollars was taken out of a weapons program to fund the development of a roll-up beef jerky. if we cut useless spending and tax the wealthy higher in more aspects, we can easily alleviate the debt.
anyone wanna take a guess at why we're not 16 times worse than Greece even though our debt is 16 trillion and theirs is 1 trillion? debt-to-GDP ratio. lowering our GDP (including privatization and other stuff like that) is the WORST thing we can do.
so I think spending cuts are generally pretty harmful. let me rephrase my earlier statement by saying that we shouldn't CUT useless spending but spend that money on less useless things like public services and education.
a globally competitive, educated workforce is the best way to strengthen an economy. conservatives currently have it ass-backwards
Actually this I kind of disagree with. I believe the war needs to end, yada yada, but by "alternative energy" you're more than likely talking about solar energy or some other kind of "clean" energy. At this current point in time, it's completely worthless. I don't mean to offend anyone with solar panels on their house, but they don't earn their keep. Converting a nation this dependent on oil to "alternative energy" would take a WHOLE LOT of money and we wouldn't be able to maintain the efficiency of oil until many developments have been made in these alternative energy fields.
Also; there's a buttload of oil under Alaska. Environmental protection groups are keeping it in the ground, but it would make oil a whole lot cheaper to get. To be honest I'm sick so I'm trying to avoid intense fighting, so I'm just gonna leave that fact there without really saying anything about it.
frankly, that's not true.
first of all, we're currently developing flexible and paper-thin solar panels that generate electricity for 40 cents a watt. stuffty fossil fuels are being challenged more and more every day.
biofuels made from synthesized algae are another great option.
It just doesn't seem like a hot issue to me. It seems more important to do things like, I don't know, repair our economy than worry about what type of energy we're using. Yes, it's a problem, and it shouldn't be ignored, but we clearly don't have enough money to go around as it is so it seems like what we do have should go to the more important interests of America.
Also; I understand that the war is largely based on energy, but it's possible to end the war without completely severing our ties to foreign energy.
dude fixing our energy crCIA will eliminate foreign oil dependencies. no more wars to spend money and lives on, and no more foreign oil to buy.
better economy.
