Posted on 11/25/2013 1:08:21 PM PST by ThethoughtsofGreg
Heh, here in Missouri, instead of cutting taxes to compete against Kansas, which is drawing Missouri business at an alarming rate (at least from the Missouri side of the border), some numbskull government committee proposed a joint program with Kansas that would cause Kansas to stop cutting taxes and giving breaks to businesses for moving there.
I never did hear Kansas’s response; I am sure that whatever it was it was hard to hear over the uproarious laughter from Topeka.
Sorry. Taxing too much is a problem. But so is borrowing too much. Or running too much of a deficit.
Truth is, it really doesn’t matter which way the government funds excessive spending, they are all destructive to the health of the economy and of society in general.
IOW: they don’t need to cut taxes, they need to cut spending. And they need to cut government.
It has the capability, willingness, capacity and propensity to become its own nation.
I hope that happens and I hope it happens soon.
Cuomo (or any democrat) cut taxes? Ha....
They need to raise the import tariffs. State tax cuts are not likely to do much except pull business from other states. The real problem is international in scope.
Let’s go back to USConstitution and let the vast majority of tax dollars go into the state coffers, from the citizens of each state.
DC steals the vast majority of state dollars with the missing 10th Amemdment, 17th ending State based Senate, the -Reserve- and the resulting _income_tax_.
If some of these states are able to lower taxes because of money they are getting from the Feds, then all they are doing is exchanging money now for Federal regulations and control later.
The only government body in America that is allowed to run deficits ad infinitum is the US Government. They get to spend more money, make more laws, and control more lives.
Until that beast is put in a cage everything else is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
It’d better happen before the state goes leftist, the leftist cities are far too big as it is
Somebody needs to tell Tax, and Spend O’Malley that in Maryland. He is running folks out of this State as fast as he can.
Here are few suggestions that would cost the taxpayers NOTHING!
1) Let any child of any age take the GED. If they pass award them an official diploma from their local government high school. This would immediately make them eligible for college scholarship aide, admission to community college or university, admission to a trade training program, or work. Having an official diploma would make admission to the military straight forward.
Savings to taxpayers: More than $11,000/ child for each year he is not attending the local K-12 socialist-entitlement and single-payer school.
Benefit to the child: Several years of extra time working. This could add up to as much as a quarter of a million dollars ( or more) in income earned over a lifetime.
Benefit to the state: More taxes collected.
2) Backpack funding of the child:
The funding should follow the child regardless of the school setting that his parents choose.
3) Allow dame schools:
There are many very successful homeschooling moms and dads. They should be allowed to teach other children in their homes. The health and safety requirements should not be any more rigorous than that imposed on home-based day care.
How would federal lands, parks, and military stations be handled if Texas became its own state?
You are aware that community colleges are "state institutions" and so are many if not most of the trade training programs.
Yes, I am. They, too, should be privatized.
The Marxists of this nation got to where they are today through gradualism. That’s not a bad plan for conservatives, either.
Totally, and immediately privatizing all education immediately is not rational or possible. A good start would be getting children out of the Marxist system as quickly as possible. Allowing them to graduate early, ( when they have passed the GED or achieved a certain score on the SAT or ACT) is a doable, and not terribly scary for the voting public.
I see two problems with your line of reasoning: 1)You are against "state institutions, but you are willing to trust "state" exams to determine level of competency.
2)Early graduation would restrict the number of electives that students could take. I know I had enough credits to graduate as a junior, but was not sure what I wanted to take in college. I took all of the shop electives as a senior and that greatly influenced me to go into Engineering.
They would belong to the Republic of Texas.
I'm sure that Texas would be happy to give the U.S. its employees and hardware back.
That can be easily remedied.
Regarding electives:
Why not let parents and their children make that decision? Your personal experiences with high school electives really are irrelevant.
Regarding tests:
The SAT and ACT are private. The GED is a state administered exam but it exists now and is immediately available. Of course I would encourage the development of similar private administered exams.
Please remember that the Marxist/libs were able to get as far as they have through gradualism and not scaring the voting public.
Regarding my “trust”:
Why are you making this personal? Are you are government teacher? Are you a liberal Marxist? This a debating technique see often on Free Republic used by these two groups.
Which is better?
High school shop electives or actually having a few years being **paid** real money to work in a real shop, a real business, with skilled workers who have real work experience?
If given the opportunity ( which they are forbidden now) many teens would find the real world shop experience a good choice.
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