Quote Originally Posted by Lyle
I think honestly we could have a government with both Shi'ia and Sunni's together, however right now it looks like that is in peril.....that's what we WANT. I figure what we'll get is an Iraqi government that is a country with SOME ties to Iran but is not a puppet state like Syria. The Iraqis don't want Al-Queda there anymore than we do.


I think the immigration system is PART of the problem, I think greedy businesses and businesses that have sold the US out for "greener pastures" and "Free Trade" Agreements are mainly at fault. I honestly think the Fair tax would really help in solving these issues.

#1 Anyone who bought anything in the United States would pay the sales taxes thus increasing our tax base.

#2 By removing hidden taxes in business it would make America the #1 place to be for business

But everything else would depend on Free Trade Agreements and enforcement of SOME kind of immigration law....I am not sure building a fence is the best policy but something has to be done about it and it's not an easy problem to solve which is obviously why no one has done it.


In the end America still needs to accept people with open arms but people also need to accept America when they come here and I think a more simple and cheaper naturalization process is in order
There's no danger of Al Quaeda ever running Iraq, and there never was. What Iraq has now is a Shiite majority government who control everything (Shiites are 60% of the Iraqi population, so they now control 60% of the Iraqi parliament and all the government. ) The Shiites in control in Iraq thus can't be voted out. In 2003 we were calling the guys now running the government of Iraq "terrorists" and "enemy combatants" and telling them to stay in Iran or we'd capture and kill them. But since the Iranian Ayatollah forced Bush to hold elections they now run the country and we're fighting and dying to keep them in power. Now we're having to deal with them, but they're not dealing with the Sunnis and are splitting off the Iraqi oilfields (all in Shiite territory) into a Shiite confederation aligned with (Shiite) Iran. They're going to hold a referendum in the Shiite region in a year or two, and it's a certainty that they're going to vote to split away from Iraq. So effectively Bush has spent trillions of taxpayer dollars and thousands of American lives to hand the world's second-largest oil reserve over to Iranian control.

In what way is Syria a puppet state?


It doesn't surprise me you want a fair tax. The "fair tax" is the brainchild of the very same people who've been f*cking you up the arse on your taxes for the last twenty odd years. You realise that it's just a consumption tax, so the people who spend most of their wages (low/middle incomes) pay a higher proportion of their salaries in taxes than people who only spend a small proportion of their income and invest the rest? You'd be even worse off under a "fair tax" than you are now, and the top 1% of Americans even more wealthy. After a century of progressive taxation, we'd return under a fair tax to the robber barron days. "Fair Tax" is just a trick to let investors cycle money over and over without paying taxes on the multiplying gains and get the masses to pay even more than they do now.

Here's a tax suggestion that is as simple as a fair tax but progressive instead of regressive like the "fair tax" : make taxes a flat rate on net worth rather than consumption. The top 1% own 41% of the wealth, so they should pay 41% of the taxes. The top 10% own 71% of the wealth, so should pay 71% of the taxes. The bottom 40% own 0.2% of the wealth, and so should pay only 0.2% of the taxes.


Why don't the GOP candidates go for something really fair like that, hmmm? Can you say?