03-31-2009, 06:20 PM
zdunklee Wrote:I agree with all your points, the majority of unions have lost touch with reality, but then again so have the companies that employ them by the looks of it.
We outsource our jobs because people are too damn cheap to pay for american made products anymore. For example my dad repairs cars, new rotors from american companies cost at least $70 for two, the chinese ones cost about $35. Guess what ones most people choose to get? Now guess what ones actually last 4 times longer?
For the cig tax, I wish they would tax alcohol just as much, might as well get the money somehow and personally a couple bucks wouldn't change my drinking habits at all.
I agree with the unions comment. Also, taxing alcohol would be a good idea. They could also force all the liquor sales to be completed by government run stores and eliminate the small store owner because they don't contribute anything to society but drunks.
How about if the government just establishes an income tax law without all the loopholes to prevent the rich from contributing next to nothing with their high cost bean counters?
How about if the US starts putting a tariff on goods shipped into the states? Like all the other countries do to us. How about if the government requires all companies that sell goods in the US have a factory that builds said parts in the US? Like China forces from all US companies.
The government is going to do everything they can to protect themselves and their friends. All of whom are rich. They will bend the laws so they and the other rich will always keep their money while the rest of us wither and die on the vine. Until that philosophy changes in Washington, this country is doomed to continue on the same path.