(January 17, 2012 at 8:45 pm)paintpooper Wrote: Could 70 billion be allotted much better, for sure. How about college education for all US citizens. Its our tax dollars, if we think college would educate our children better then NCLB it should be our say on how the money is spent. But NCLB probably made some private company rich and got nice fatty contracts, all at the same we ask ourselves, "Is our children learning" lol.
That money would instead go into the various newly created State Depts. of Education. You're not going to get it back, & you're only going to have a tiny bit more control over where it goes than you do now. It would also more than likely put my state, Florida, as well as Nevada into the unwanted position of having to start collecting a state income tax.
And don't give me any of that flat tax bullshit. It looks like a great idea till you do the math & then you realize why NeoCons have such a hard-on for it.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal