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i only have three rooms in my house, but this would be totally sweet!

but you want to know how I would fix the global economy? start breaking up extremely large corporations that exert too much power at local and national levels. actually enforce anti-trust laws, and make mergers of large companies very difficult.

We can also impose functional salary caps on everyone by taxing all income above 500k per year at something near 70%, and all income above 1 million or two per year at 90%. Make the tax rate for everyone else who makes above 40k 15%. And that's it. That's the tax code. No ifs, ands or buts.

The main point of that isn't to give the government more money, but to make it a disincentive to pay individuals more than 500k a year.

Individuals making piles of cash are less likely to reinvest it in anything than say, a company who gets to keep that cash because they can put it to better use than to give it to their ceos just so it can be taxed. They can use it to build the business, or pay their lower workers more, or give them better, or proper benefits. Both of those things are exactly what the economy needs: Money injected into places where it's going to get moved around more directly.

Lower worker's wages have been going down to make corporate profits go up. That may make the economy grow faster (i'm not sure about that), or give an appearance of prosperity, but who is going to buy stuff if they don't have money? -- Growth under the current situation created by the relazation of the tax code in the early 80s was bolstered by spending credit for the last 20 years, and it's not going to continue working, no matter how much we hope. The only way to stop it is by saying to rich people, not to equalize themselves with poor people, but that rich enough is rich enough.

i really doubt i'll ever win on of these give-aways. :-(

my proposal for fixing our economy? revert the tax system to closer to what it was before regan, when money was moving through the economy more heartily than ever and there were decades without such pronounced boom-bust cycles: tax rich people (used to be over 200,000 i think), who make say over 1 million a year at 80% on that income. -- it used to be well above 90%. trickle down economics has failed. it has made a plutocracy.

need it

need very much

i have a ds, and I can't find a satisfying game for anymore. I use it to play tetris. this could really liven things up.

I would really like to win one of these some day.

:'-(

These could be useful to bring sound into the far reaches of my house.

mmmm... touchy godness