We had roads, bridges, schools, an army, navy, marines, and coast guard... All before the federal income tax.
I also don't understand why in the age of the internet we are still constructing brick and mortar buildings... Filling them with desks, lockers, textbooks, heat/ac units, paying janitors and maintenance personnel, and buying multiple buses/school vehicles, and paying ungodly salaries for superintendents and principals... Not to mention the athletic stadiums with bleachers, scoreboards, and all that garbage.
Now, I don't believe there is a way to have public education without having some way to pay for it... But we could eliminate millions/billions in worthless overhead... This isn't 1950 anymore. We can find a more cost effective way to do it with the tools we have.
But I can guarantee you someone will chime in and whine that without a building to send their kids to, there will be no one to watch them because both parents work. Well, boo-hoo. I guess I'm supposed to keep paying more and more taxes to support your public daycare.
My wife is actually mayor of our town. And after seeing all the shenanigans that happen at the local level... Corruption, waste, downright theft... I can only imagine what goes on in the den of vipers in DC where they're thousands of miles away from their constituents and answer only to themselves.
But go ahead and believe that sending the same amount, or more, in taxes to these clowns is going to fix anything.
Slash it down to bare bones.
Mike
Some highly edumacated folks on here don't believe an online diploma is worth the paper it's written on. Which is humorous to me, as having gone to both a brick and mortar university and an online one, I doubt said person would have his law degree if he'd had to obtain it online. The online classes are MUCH more rigorous.
So I guess Abraham Lincoln wasn't a lawyer... And folks like Edison, Steve Jobs, and a ton more uneducated people weren't experts in their respective fields.
I'm not entirely against brick and mortar institutions... Especially when we're talking college/university level education. But this bloated, inefficient educational industrial complex has got to go.
I still have to send a check/money order to an office in OKC every year to renew my journeyman's license... There's no provision to pay by CC online... Just so a couple state employees who comprise the "construction industries board" can keep their state paycheck coming...
The system is more about perpetuating itself than actually solving problems/providing services.
That's what people are disgusted with. And people who make a living off that system get nervous when the rest of us start noticing that we really don't need them.
Mike
