Simple Solutions are the Best

Taxes: In my opinion, a graduated income tax is fair even though the rich say they pay an unfair share. Some guy getting paid 10,000 a year being taxed 10% and having to live on $9,000 is more difficult than some guy making 100,000 having to live on 90,000 etc. From my experience, the lower the pay, the worse the job. The really poor are usually old people and people who cannot get a job (although there are lazy people, or maybe just people who haven't found their niche). Most really rich people got there through the work of others or through chance or heredity. What I would really like to see is the ability to designate where our contribution went. I would check libraries, a trucker would say roads, people with children might designate education, lawn order types could give it to police, war lovers could give it to the military. Whoever controls the pursestrings controls things and I would put it in the hands of the people.

Illegal Drugs: If everyone who ever used drugs showed up at all the police stations on the same day and turned themselves in, the system would implode. They would either have to jail everyone or let the people already in for drugs out. The drug war is insane and is kept illegal because of the high profit. Anything anyone does with their own body might be a vice, but it is only a crime if it hurts someone else.

Economy: A Maximum wage of one million dollars. If that is all they could have, they would have to let some trickle down and come on, anyone should be able to live comfortably on that. Brent Olson does the math here.Speaking of wages, I was watching CSPAN awhile ago and the head of the American Bar Association was crying about how federal judge wages need to keep up with CEO's and lawyers in private practice. Seems their pay is tied to and equal to the wages of our members of Congress and is now only a measly $165,200 a year. Now if they worked 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, the poor bastards are making only $79 an hour. If they cannot live on that, they are not wise enough to be a judge.

Congress: Eliminate it. The technology for a one man, one vote on every issue is available with computers and data banks. Majority rule is technically possible. Sure it would be hard to sneak in earmarks in bills the whole nation voted on and it would be difficult to write 600 page bills because the populace would grow tired of reading and automatically vote "no", but I don't see the downside here. You say it wouldn't be fair to the poor people who don't have computers? That's what libraries are for. Perhaps only the people interested in government would take the trouble to vote, but I bet the numbers would increase over the percentage that vote now on the rare occasion anyone asks for our opinion between bad and worse. Hell, we could even have a vote of confidence every 6 months for the figurehead President and two consecutive "nays" would mean dismissal. Laws would be passed by the people who made the most persuasive arguments not the ones with the most money and we could eliminate the expenses of housing, insuring, and paying for huge retirements for 500 plus parasites and the K street "johns" who fatten them. People spend so much money seeking public office for a reason. I really laugh when they call themselves public servants when nearly all are self-serving. Let's see some creative approaches to a real democracy here at home before we force it on others. It would end partisan bickering and put the thing in the hands of the people.

Schizophrenic Homeless People: Clean em up a little, put a robe on them and give em a church. All people who God talks to should have a pulpit. Why do some live in the Vatican and some on the street?