Need ideas for a new federal law

legalize the ganja smoke & make a national drinking age of 18. if you can die for your country you should be able to drink till you shit your pants legally IMO.

the fairtax taxes consumption, right?  so lets say you're a working class family, living hand to mouth (as most of us are).  Then you spend (consume) most of your earnings.  That means that nearly all of your income is going to be taxed.  Now lets say you're hyper wealthy, most of your money is dividends and capital gains.  Then, even if you spend twice as much as the working class family a year, you still are making a shitton more.  But you're only being taxed on what you spend, right?  so proportionally, the poorer you are, the greater amount you are being taxed.

Its just as much a scam as that guy in nigeria trying to buy that knucklehead's D80

this should be left purely up to state legislative bodies. I don't feel this should be federalized.

Do a satirical essay on something completely ridiculous such as reinstating slavery etc. Be creative. I love taking assignments like that and just coming up with ridiculous ideas.
For example, i just wrote an essay on why a zombie apocalypse would be a good thing.

first off, Im not sold on the fair tax. I am a supporter of it only in the sense that the US should explore other options than our current, inefficient tax system(I am not confident that it could generate enough revenue). this is just an idea for the thread creator(one I dont think many others would have said) to research something more drastic and exciting than legalizing weed. I think it would make a great topic for this kid's class.


Anywyas, its clear you don't have a great understand of the fair tax and how it works. I suggest you do more research on it before making more claims like destroying the middle class, because it would not do that. (remember there were times when there was no income tax).

http://boortz.com/more/audio_archives.html
Its the third one, back to school fair tax 101. Neal boortz is co author of the fair tax book and knows what its all about and how it works.

Oh one last thing

FUCK YOU

You dont even fucking know me. I am not even close to rich. My parents aren't even close to rich, and Im far from spoiled. I've had to work for all my shit(except for my private high school education, where my mom had to work at the school so I could go there). All of my skis...I paid for them. My ski trips...I pay for them. My college education...I pay for it. Fuck off before you make generalizations, although it seems your great at doing that.

The spoiled brats comment was out of line for sure. So my bad on that. It is a good topic though.

i just laughed imagining this kid straight face telling his class that was his proposal, and having some fat girl staring at him in disbelief

our economy will never be re-industrialized, with technology and outsourcing reducing jobs in the united states, we are living in a very postindustrial society. fair taxes should not influence the way we spend or consume, it should reduce tax breaks for the top 1% of the population that control 90% of the wealth (i think someone previuosley stated 20%, and thats incorrect). taxing more of their income will HELP to stabilize economy. as it is right now, our taxing economy lives off the income of blue collar society, and this system is showing very apparent defaults. it's dispicable that white collar society doesn't have to pay taxes on all of their income.. if they did, our states would have so much more tax gain and so much less debt.

It would make for a good OWNED picture.