My point is simply that the foot is a handy length unit to have that doesn't exist in SI. Obviously you can make do without it, but it's something that just works well and if there was a near SI equivalent it would be easier to make the transition. No one seems to use decimeter, which sounds too much like decameter, particularly with all the interesting dialects in the US that would just be a mess. Now if 1 meter was close to 1 foot and then you went in multiples of 10 from there, that would be easier for imperial users to get.
My other point that units that aren't necessarily easy to convert between doesn't matter because the average person doesn't ever actually have to convert you didn't address. It doesn't matter if the system as a whole is better if the only parts that people use regularly are just as good in the old system if it's the average person that you need to convince to use it.
Letting a temporary tax cut expire isn't raising taxes, anymore than not continuing to get a Christmas bonus in January isn't cutting your pay. I really have no idea why no one calls them on this nonsense. If you are only interesting in technically not raising taxes then you can play whatever word games you want.
The problem is that Republicans see this as an opportunity to cut every program that they disagree with while continuing to spend just as much or even more on the things they do agree with. This is their opportunity to do with the budget what they can't do with votes or the courts, and they won't accept that their little fantasy isn't possible.
TFA: "Says Kellar Autumn of Lewis and Clark University, 'I predict that in the next decade we will see shape-changing artificial muscles in many products, such as mobile phones, portable computers and automobiles.'"
When the next iphone prototype gets left in a bar it simply slithers back to HQ, using its camera to identify anyone that sees it for later questioning by the authorities.
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai