I Can't Beat This Drum Enough....

....FairTax, FairTax, FairTax. The country I was born into is going down the tubes. Fast food workers are demanding nearly as much pay as I was getting as a licensed journeyman electrician. Union workers demand so much pay and benefits they price themselves right out of a job, then blame their employers. Government unions are an entirely different story....they vote for the candidates who can guarantee them the most benefits who are then beholden to the unions who voted them into office in the first place. The government, for all its proclamations of compassion for the poor, has a misplaced heart. People expect the government to care for them from cradle to grave, not realizing or not caring that the benefits they receive come from someone else who worked for the money that was then taken from them, at gunpoint, in the guise of the IRS. I hear people complain of the rich getting all of the breaks, and to some extent that's true....but no one ever got a job from a poor person. Jobs don't just appear out of thin air....they are created by people who have the means to do so. The rich also pay more in taxes than anyone else, with 40% of government revenues coming from the top 5% of income earners. That's income earners....NOT the wealthy. Our current system does not tax wealth the same as it does income. It is possible, under our current system, to be a multimillionaire yet qualify for foodstamps. Those income earners that are being taxed are the small and medium sized businesses that employ somewhere around 80% of the nation. You're biting the hand that feeds, people.