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Nice viral night's project would be building a simple yourtaxreceipt.com website, reverse engineering those numbers and making a calculator.
Take it one step further and let people specify what their money goes to. Automate the politicians!
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Social security and medicare are "welfare" by any reasonable definition. So the welfare state is a big issue.
You can define "welfare" however you like, but it doesn't change the reality that no politician -- on either side of the aisle -- is seriously proposing cuts to Social Security or Medicare. Old people comprise the base of both political parties.
Or better yet, invest in technology so they rejuvenate old people to the point that they can enter the workforce and earn their living for the rest of their life(presumably several centuries).
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It seems like a nice idea on the face of it, but apart from the inevitable chaos which comes from having budgets of government departments fluctuate wildly from year to year, I think it would lead to a world where government departments spend about half their time and money begging taxpayers for money. Every television ad for the first four months of the year would probably be some variation on: "Remember, the FBI do…
Honestly, the receipts for MOST businesses are fairly predictable (within 10-20%, at least), so why would we think that the government would be any different? Also, I'm not sure why making government departments beg for money and have to live in the free market is on the face of it a bad thing. Would it be any different than the current system, where politicians beg us for money while promising to allocate our taxes…
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You can define "welfare" however you like, but it doesn't change the reality that no politician -- on either side of the aisle -- is seriously proposing cuts to Social Security or Medicare. Old people comprise the base of both political parties.
Those elderly white men have families do they not? Maybe the family should take care of old white men instead? Or better yet, invest in technology so they rejuvenate old people to the point that they can enter the workforce and earn their living for the rest of their life(presumably several centuries).
I am merely suggesting that we should return the care of elderly to the families, who are in better position to know what their elders need.
I am also suggesting that people should invest in anti-aging research so that social security would be entirely unnecessary.