A Jersy Driver wrote...
LustfulAngel wrote...
The revenue that would come from taxing marjiuana would be high, but not high enough(IE: The demand for marijuana isn't that much. Maybe about 15% of Americans do drugs if you don't count pharmaueticals, beer/wine, cigarettes as drugs.)
Right now, the American Economy doesn't need taxes however. What America needs, is a Flat-Tax. A 20% tax plan, like that endorsed in the Republican Primary. This would lower the corporate tax rate by 10%. And with a lower-rate, perhaps companies wouldn't want to cheat the system if thaat is indeed what they're doing.
I've proposed outright eliminating taxes altogether, to phase for that eventual reality, 20% taxes means that 80% of your income will remain in your pockets. What revenue is, in our consumer economy is the revenue of the citizen. Washington has collectively forgotten this.
And while Democrats want to outline things as "Rich and poor" "Middle class versus elitists", even the elitists are Americans and thereby citizens of the country. Discriminating either side as anything but the American citizens they are is only counterproductive.
If we can't stop the global operations as it regards this war, we can at the very least bring back the troops from neutral nations such as Japan, Germany, Finland, etc. These bases all over the world cost millions to operate, and they in of themselves are burdens to the taxpayers.
Not only that, but the return of veterans will automatically demand jobs, which will then create them.
In short, a robust economic plan is as followed:
-Restructure taxes so as to significantly lower them for all classes of Americans, eventually we'll do away with them and this will also lower the size of government.
-Spending cuts, loads of spending cuts and I mean at places where it doesn't matter. Military operations where they serve no purpose, departments of government that are seemingly redundant or outright an insult to American national security(TSA, I'm looking at you) In of itself, the TSA has cost the American taxpayers billions.
-Via the return of veterans, as well as the reform of our corporate laws, we artifically jack up the demand in the country for jobs, which will then create them. Rebalancing our trade efforts and bringing back the jobs we lost.
In essence, to tear down everything Bill Clinton bastardized in his term as president, I don't believe in crony capitalism nor do I believe in tearing down our own infrastructure. I'm for Fair Trade, I'm against Free Trade.
I'm for alliances, not entangling alliances.
To restore America, America must restore herself. An end to foreign aid to countries that don't "like us very much".
America was a country that was founded and based on the will of the people, that focused solely on its economic prosperity. If Americans want to see a robust economy, they must vote for it and clamor for it. Not be ignorantly apathetic, as they have been for years. Listening only to their professor who is equally as apathetic :D.
This was a common discussion in my various high school English, History, and Economics classes and that was the conclusion we came to as well. and while the revenue from marijuana wouldn't be high it would generate at least some funds and couple it with smarter gov't spending(the army spends roughly $500 per toilet seat...) it could help