Winning the War on Drugs
Begins with reframing the context and withdrawing the troops:
Much that needs to be done to end the
Federal Government
Tax Simplification
Bryan suggests:
If Congress wanted to simplify the tax code all they would have to do is eliminate all deductions other than the standard deduction and the individual deduction. The whole tax form would look like the 1040EZ. They don’t want to do that because they gain power by having people pay them to include special deductions.
Or provide special subsidies, etc.
That the congress critters and their state level ilk have not done this already, as a first step, is a perfectly good reason to fire them all.
Progressive Indexing Logic
Yea, I know that those red and blue maps paint a two tone picture of a complex world, that red states have lots of blues living in them, that the demographics are infinitely more complex than two colors can represent.
However, often a simple explanation is the best one so perhaps this is what bush’s partiality to progressive indexing is all about.
state department Research Puzzle
So, why is someone at the US state department using Google to research “mark-77 napalm fallujah”?
As noted in the above post and its predeccessor and comment thread there is no corroborated proof of napalm use in Fallujah.
Just wondering…