1. tax incentives to vote
2..when your boss fires you and black list you, you
may fall to the bottom --- fear of such makes you do whatever the boss says --- isn't this
slavery
3. power, like a whip, is useless unless you can
exercise it (have someone to beat)
4.
CAI (Computer Assisted Instruction) should have produced programs and tapes to teach
everything using the best teachers. It isn't
profitable so we don't have it.
5. Most homes are not democratic or democratically
run
6. Good products often squeezed out by bigger
busine$$' lousy more expensive junk which they later cancel after the failure of the
competition --- the people are left with nothing (worst case), an inferior product
otherwise
7. Brain storming like TQM after preface maybe is
the way to go??
"An example of brainstorming would be the following list
List ... " could be an organized
approach that permits almost anything to be said (blasphemy, sexist [there are countries
in the world where men completely control women {slavery?}, it turns men on sexually to
contemplate such control over women] , racist [do we really want blue eyed blondes to
disappear as humanity becomes some beautiful golden skinned everyone or white everyone??],
etc.) ... listed and expanded in the follow up
8. Give this brainstorming, of F D C, a 6 way tug of
war, to the world as a challenge: do this brainstorming everywhere in the world better
than it is done here. Refine it and pass it
on --- an ever improving civilization. Make
it a world religion of elevating civilization everywhere in the world.
9. Is "consensus" a step beyond democracy?
10. teach (include Computer Aided Instruction in
multimedia PC's for all) all children to think, debate, participate in politics (show them
that they must lest power mad nuts will keep taking over), interview for jobs, ... make
love? ...
11. Power Mad Nuts - Power Driven Megalomaniacs -
the gods? --- the wealth and power often outlive the individual that founded the dynasty. The thrones of monarchies (incl churches), the
thrones of empires (especially economic empires), the thrones of despots, giant
corporations, etc. are some examples. In many
ways it (big money power) is immortal, relative to human life spans. "Heavy is the Crown" of the high
priests (custodians, heirs, rulers, etc.) of these deities.
Power corrupts, like dope (drugs) it seduces their minds to believe they are
entitled to exercise their power over their children, their subordinates, ..., their
companies, ..., the nation, ... the world! Their
minds are too often further seduced to believe that the lives of a few people is to the greater good of their higher goals. Then more people are sacrificed ... WARS, REVOLTS,
REVOLUTIONS, MASS MURDER, MASS ENSLAVEMENT, MASS EXTERMINATION, the list presented by
relatively recent (post {?} barbarian era) history is long.
... The world tends to worship the
rich and powerful and they in turn tend to expect it.
It is the on-going fighting among these gods that is the cause of most/much of the
misery on earth. You know the drill --- hire, train and arm some thugs from country
A --- send them to country B to kill people in the name of country A --- sell arms to both
sides --- BIG MONEY GETS BIGGER.
12. Illegal taxes: Sales,
excise, gasoline, telephone, electric, alcohol, cigarettes, other hidden taxes, multiply
taxed income, surcharges ... every tax except income taxes. They are all gimmicks that unfairly tax some
subgroup(s), fool the taxpayers by hiding the tax and prevent all taxpayers from knowing
exactly how much they are paying in taxes (Relatively, to others, and Absolutely). Even with careful record keeping and a computer,
it is difficult to determine exactly how much one pays in taxes but what one finds is
staggering: thousands of dollars are added to your regular income taxes.
Look at the taxes and surcharges (another name for tax) on your electric or telephone bill as an example of additional taxes levied by various government agencies. Don't forget the price of a gallon of gas or a pack of cigarettes is 50% - 80% taxes. These numbers are significant because we could be paying 50% - 80% of our income in taxes (federal, state, city / local, sales, gasoline, etc., etc.) without knowing it. This is why these taxes should be illegal. Taxpayers have no idea how much we pay in total in taxes. Our take-home after taxes (incl. health care deductions) is not the end of the taxes we pay. We can easily justify calculating that at least 10% of our take-home goes into sales taxes, gas taxes, etc. What little we buy or pay for with our take-home pay that is not subject to sales or some other tax, is greatly over shadowed by huge taxes on gasoline, cigarettes, liquor, entertainment, parking, etc.
Then
there are other, more indirect taxes. Taxes
on corporations, whether income taxes, excise taxes, ... , highway and bridge tolls, etc.
are all passed onto the consumer eventually. Corporate
profit margins must be maintained as business fundamentals dictate. All costs are part of the cost of the product or
service, or the cost of doing business. As
such the product or service price must be adjusted upward to compensate for any increase
in the cost of doing business. Businesses
doing business with other businesses pass these costs (corporate income taxes, ..., tolls)
on to the ultimate customer: YOU and ME.
Any taxes (excise, etc.) or tolls levied on the
electric or telephone companies are included in the price of the service or are collected
through surcharges. They are treated no
different than increases in the cost of copper for wire.
And of course the taxes on the companies producing the copper and the wire are
included along with all the transportation costs including highway tolls and use taxes. Note that highway use taxes and tolls are designed
to make the users of the highways pay the cost of the highways, but it is the consumer of
all products who actually pays all of those taxes in the prices paid in the store, at the
gas pump, in the utility bills, etc, etc.
It has been said, and it may be a fact, that
corporations do not pay taxes, they collect taxes for the government. The individual, however, never knows how much
he/she actually pays to the government via these taxes passed along through the price of
goods and services. Never-the-less, make no
mistake, the consumer pays these hidden taxes one way or another. Some say that is as it should be. Others say they have a right to know how much they
are paying to the government through taxes, direct and indirect. And that these taxes should be assessed as direct
taxes to insure the tax burden is shared correctly. Politicians
do not want to convert any these hidden taxes (especially sales taxes) into straight
income taxes. The real tax bite is so large
that the people would scream loud enough to "throw the bums out". Further-more don't think for one minute that if
these taxes on corporations were removed that companies would reduce the prices of their
goods and services accordingly, except as the government forces them to do so, via audit
and assessment against their profit margins. Greed
is too strong a factor to permit that kind of honesty in returning money to consumers. Competition is theoretically supposed to force
prices down but that is a farce of another subject.
13. Instead of letting the rich get richer 18% per
year as happened in the last 10 years (1990's) while the poor got 6% poorer, slow the rich
down with additional taxes. Use this money to
raise the level of the poor.
What
is wrong with the rich getting only 10% richer over the next decade while the poor hold
even?
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1.2.1. If you claim a monopoly on truth, then it is an insult to you and your Deity, when
someone claims a different truth. That same
someone threatens your control over the minds of your children. This is considered as a threat to the well being
(spiritual first, physical next) of your children. Many
"someones" have died in the past and present because of these lines of thought.
2.3.1. God of the Old Testament (Yahweh):
2.3.2.
God of or from Europe (God):
2.3.2.1. Polygamy: Evil. But have as many children as possible so we will out-number other religious groups and/or have plenty of cannon fodder for economic wars masquerading as religious wars.
2.4.1.
2.5.1.
The Christian God of Black America:
2.5.1.5. Slaughter, Slavery and Genocide: Never.
(Note 16 continues)
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