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Comment Two things: FairTax Plan and... (Score 1) 332

1. Personally, I think we should give the FairTax Plan a try. It gets rid of all of the taxes and replaces them with an inclusive, national sales tax. It moves the tax line items from the paystub to the cash register receipt (more transparency) without a price hike.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffairtax.org%2F

2. Check out this article from last Friday (4/2/21): "55 Corporations Paid $0 in Federal Taxes on 2020 Profits"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fitep.org%2F55-profitable...

Submission + - President Trump directs Pentagon to create new 'Space Force' military branch (defensenews.com)

Gunfighter writes: From the article: "President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to sign an executive order directing the Pentagon to create a new ”Space Force,” a move that could radically transform the U.S. military by pulling space functions variously owned by the Air Force, Navy and other military branches into a single independent service."

Comment Re:How does someone who cleans toilets work from h (Score 1) 151

Some answers here.

How does someone who cleans toilets work from home? It depends. Do they have to go to the office first every morning and then out to customer sites? If so, eliminate the trip to the office. My point was to eliminate travel when it is not necessary for tasks that can be accomplished remotely, not to just "have everyone work from home from now on."

As for the "surge pricing" (I'll borrow a term from Uber here), I think that would be an interesting approach. The corruption problem would certainly throw some monkey wrenches into the system, but I like where you're heading with the concept.

Comment Re:Revolutionary idea (Score 1) 151

Did I say "all jobs"? I'm sorry. I must have mistyped it. What I meant was...

Reward companies (and people) who work from home with incentives to keep them off the road.

Oh wait.... that is what I typed. Nevermind.

The object is to help solve a problem: traffic congestion. This doesn't mean removing all traffic from the road, it means removing some of the traffic from the road, hopefully to the point where traffic congestion is no longer a problem. In this case, my idea is to remove some of the traffic by taking the jobs that can be done from home (knowledge workers, IT, customer service, administrative work, etc.) and encouraging them to work from home through some sort of rewards and incentives system.

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