Kiss rule

[Mahnarch]

Would trashbags be tax free too falling in the same boat as Draino?
I think the fair tax is a good way to go seriously.

Trashbags. Good thinking!
Done aaand done!

I know (regarding the fair tax)!
The only reason Congress won't pass it is because it pulls power away from them.

With me at the helm, I'd make them fear much more than losing power over the people and I'd give spring cleaning a whole new meaning.

I will be the most triumphant King.....errr, 'Pre-si-dent' the U.S. has ever seen!

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I also thought of this, today:

Most Congressmen and Representatives come from wealthy families and they typically donate their salaries to charities (so they say).

I could save BILLIONS of tax dollars by changing all upper level government jobs into non-paying, volunteer positions.

Or, at least, reducing them to a 'meager' $80,000 a year.

Why does every Congressman have to drive a brand new Cadillac Escalade?

Also, all government issued vehicles would have to be 5 years or older.
There's nothing wrong with them! And Police Chiefs don't need to be driving around in brand new Crown Vics every year.

Having had to clip coupons and scrimp on pennys will make me the most cost efficient POTUS to ever live.

When's the last time Hillary had to pay for her fuel?
Heck, when's the last time Hillary set foot on a gas station's property?!

I will bring a horse into the Congressional Hall and have it take a place behind the Speaker of the Houses desk, after which I'd tell them all, "This is what I think of you! You're all lower than a horse!" just like that Roman Emperor did.
(You can learn good things from history).

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I believe in alternative fuels/energy but, not because of the Global Warming swindle!
I don't want my people to be slaves to the few utility companies in the country that are actually owned by one guy (Rockefeller?).
They should have a choice in how they get their power and gas.

Living "Off the Grid" shouldn't be confined to those who live miles away from the nearest power line.
If a suburban family wants to put up solar panels and have a power cell in their garage to escape escalating electric bills, so be it!

Also, lower electric bills from expensive natural gas by allowing the power company to install wind generators on top of existing power poles and tapping them into the grid for those too lazy or old to build their own systems.

Power sub-stations would be fitted with large battery arrays and cross-over boards.
New houses would be built to utilize 12v lighting and 120v electrical outlets if the owners wished (to save on power usage)
It wouldn't be that hard. An extra line or two adapted to existing power poles.
Cut the Romax lines to all ceiling light fixtures and tie them into the new 12v system at the house connection, leave the rest alone.
(A majority of my house is lit with those 9v flourescent bulbs, already. So, 'lighting' isn't a real issue.)

[Blastgirl]

I like the eighty Grand salary cap. That's very good living especially when your business travel and even meals are covered.

Being the Wife of a guy who often travels there's a lot less given at this level. Major Leaguers stay in five star hotels and their meals are covered.

It's somewhat different in Double A. They travel by bus unless it's a far road trip. Anything under five-hundred miles is a bus journey. And for the most part the Double A players cover their own meals on the road. There's an allotment but it doesn't really cover it.

In Congress you're not expected to pay for anything and you can vote your own pay raise. That doesn't seem fair.

[Phil]

I think I could squeak by on 80 thousand.

[Mahnarch]

I like the eighty Grand salary cap.

I know.
Think of all those millions of dollars wasted on "The Clinton Charity Fund" donated by Bill and Hillary.
All they're doing it pulling it out of their right pocket and shoving it into their left pocket - and getting a tax write off over it!

The average Congressman is netting, what? $200,000/year?

Drop that to $80,000. That's a $120,000/year difference.

Times that by 100 Senators and 459-ish(?) House of Representitives....

$120k x 559 = $67,080,000!

That covers the pork barrel spending of the corrupt George Soreous (sp?) alone! PER YEAR!!

That's 33 1/2 Presidential salaries, at the present rate!!

If it stayed current. And each president only served one 4 year term, that's the equivalent to paying for every President up until 2075!!! [though, my math my be off. The sun is coming up and I'm really tired.]

I have to go to bed.
"Hasta Mañana", as our invaders say.

[Phil]

In a single word, DAMN!

*I'm 36 I can say that once in a while.*

When you show it like that and it's actually applied this country should never have any need to go into a recession again.

[Mahnarch]

The very thing that promises a better economy is the shark that's swallowing that same big fish.

...I think that ironic statement says it all.
I had more to say but, after that first line....I think I'm done.