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The Future - It's A Gamble - So Here's A Guess

OHAI. File this under 'Humor', barely.

Hey, I'm somewhat of a futurist, although, not an expert, (are any futurist really experrts, come on?), I'm really more of a 'hobbyist' futurist. I just like making projections based on wild ideas...if they come to pass..I look great! (It's that old full court shot at the buzzer strategy!) If they don't, well nobody really cares anyhow and will probably forget about them in short order. Here's where I agree with George W. Bush, however: "Oh, I don't know...I'll be dead when they figure it out."

But, anyhow, here goes: THE COMPREHENSIVE FEDERAL TAX AND POWER LOTTERY PROGRAM

A possible future programs that, 

1. reduces taxes by a big chunk, and, 

2. makes paying taxes kinda like a game, (but, shhh, it seems like a game, but it's really a tax).

A uniform tax would be levied on every adult citizen this tax would be collected through sales, income, and use of resources, and property taxes at a set percentage rate.

However, this tax would only comprise one half of total federal revenues, the other half would be represented by income derived from selling a lottery!!!

Yay! 

The lottery drawing would be held weekly, one drawing per state or territory. with a fixed percentage of lottery sales going to the winners...ah, redistribution of wealth!

How do you enter the lobby, you might ask? Well, every time you buy something, you the NATIONAL POWER TAX LOTTERY, with a drawing monthly, nationwide. This program will provide for federal programs, you know, the federal budget social security supplemental financing comes to mind right away, (I suspect by this program comes to reality social security will need a little outside cash ha, ha.) . Otherwise, you'll buy lottery tickets of your choice ranging from $1 to $20, these will be for designated government programs, i.e., schools, education, public safety, roadways, water, sewerage, hospitals, assisted living centers, health care, 

So you see, you could buy a $1 National Power Tax Lottery Ticket, and $5 worth of instant win, scratch off tickets targeted for state programs, like, "Hey, give me five of those $1 scratch offs--one of the 'schools', one 'hospital', and, oh, yeah, give me three 'sewers'." 

States, and local governments would receive revenue not from their own taxes but based on available resources, industries, and service OUTPUT....the more output the more revenue received. Build a bridge, get money from the federal government, build a sports arena, get fed money from the tax lottery!!  Smaller local governments and municipalities would receive revenue the same way, if a community built a new school, money from the fed tax revenue program arrives. Just like that. TA, DA!

How would this money be apportioned? Ahah! I'm glad you asked: By gauging through regular polls--A SMART TAX!--that is how educated the citizenry is, or not...how many slackers the community has, alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana sales (oh, did I mention hemp would be legal?), and also health--i.e., who is dying, and at what age. So a total loser community made up of low income properties, non-achievers, welfare recipients (yeah, there still would be handouts, but aged and infirm and children of need would receive fed government support for living, healthcare, of course). But for the rest of society, citizens need to advocate, and vote the projects into being, building needed schools, infrastructure, healthcare facilities, business parks, what have you, projects for the common good.

The mechanics of the free market will supply goods and services, as before, (that's 'before' as in 'past', which of course, means like 'now').

But don't short change the LOTTERY...once a week in fifty or so markets, at every level of society---some one, somewhere becomes a millionaire!

And once a month, nationally, someone becomes a MULTI-MILLIONAIRE!

Whew, talk about redistribution of wealth!

THANKS, 

GHD

Saint Peter Tracks Dick Cheney

Cheney's being tracked at the Pearly Gates, (St. Peter looks familiar, remember, 'One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest', the movie?  

                                    

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Death Defying Pundits?

Fair and balanced news...not always. Sometimes it's torture.

We're still waiting for these brave souls to submit to experimental torture, after all, they torture us every day.

Update June 8, 2009

The news wire stretched way too thin.

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Obama Meets Limbaugh - The Elevator

                               

This is a variation on the old 'proverb', joke, whatever: 'Man who farts in church, must sit in own pew.' Except here, we use an elevator instead of a traditional church. You know, modernized religion. After all, an elevator is kinda like a church, a meeting place we're forced into, it's tall, it goes up to the heavens - the top floor - and down to the lobby, that's where most of us get off.

Sigh,

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Bank Of America - On Hold

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Don't you just hate those computerized voice message lists - you know, the kind bank's use - that go on and on, then dump you at the end? They never seem to have the choice you want.

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Rush Blows

                             

A little puffery at CPAC.

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Sistah Michele Bachmann Rap - Notes From CPAC

Michael Steele, you be da man, you be da man ...umm, shouldn't that be you ARE DA man?

Sistah Sooo White.

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NOTE: A profound apology to Nasir Jones, Paul Mitchell, Sixto Rodriguez

Bank of America Contrite - Yeah, Right

Barney Frank Questions Bank of America CEO, Kenneth Lewis

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Larry King Alive! Interviews ...Bernie Madoff!

                                

A family man. Bernie Madoff? Who would have thought.

 

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An Easy Target

                               

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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal contemplates the future for his state, ...umm, the Republican party, ...umm, his own future run for presidential office. He's considering refusing a portion of Obama administration's stimulus money to support unemployment rosters in Louisiana for fear of increasing unemployment lines there, then having to continue funding the program after stimulus money ends. He's often considered a leading Republican candidate to run for President, he denies this. It's probably a wise position ...his platform's kinda shaky, putting politics before the needs of the people of Louisiana.

NOTE: We'll update this post as we find out more - but we still like the cartoon, so we'll probably keep it here as an archive.

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LINK: CBSNEWS.com report 'Jindal Signals Louisiana May Not Take Stimulus Money'