On taxes: change to a flat 9% tax on all personal earned incomes with no deductions, no exemptions. Remove all business taxes.
Get out of the way.
Is that a flat 9% TOTAL, or would you add to that the 15.3% Self Employment tax (or the 7.65% if you are a regular employee)?
SS tax is the biggest scam going - and should be abolished. I use to think that allowing us to invest part of it was a good idea. WRONG. Allowing the government to extort it from tax paying citizens (with an ever growing portion of the pie) is not only wrong, it is evil.
And now that my work classifies me as "Self Employed"... I have an even bigger axe to grind.
I am actually now in favor of eliminating ALL income taxes period.