50% tax is acceptable? OK lets run with that on the average income. Social security is 4.2%. State income tax is somewhere greater than 5% for the average income, depending on state. So right now, we are at a 60% tax merely on income. The average income is 36 thousand. That means you are taking home roughly $14400, on average. As a comparison, the poverty line is currently at a net income of 16k. So you have just have put the average American in poverty! Definitely mention that in your campaign speeches, I'd vote for you.
Perhaps you should think of the society in terms of a corporation: a company which raises prices past the point that its customers can pay will see itself bankrupt and broken in the very short term
Obviously they aren't spending enough on education because you seem unable to read breakdowns.
2011:
DoD budget: 740 billion
DoHS budget: 48 billion
The remainder of defense spending is on veteran affairs (141 billion). I think we can treat that as justified, even if you would have chosen there not to be veterans.
Total tax receipts: 2300 billion
Of which is for social security: 820 billion
Total spendable tax reciepts: 1480 billion
Total spending: 3600 billion
Of which is for social security: 725 billion
Total spend: 2875 billion.
Total deficit
So we can clearly see that the defense budge comes nowhere near to filling the deficit. We could get rid of it all, sell all of the equipment to the saudis and next year, there would still be a budget deficit of 610 billion dollars. That's two thirds of all income tax raised.
To cover that we could of course put the federal income tax up on the average income from 23% to 40% (while ignoring the laffer curve). Yeah I'm sure everyone would love that. Use your head. Yes the defense budget is bloated and out of control, but damn it, so is everything else!
Sorry, but this is simply misinformed. The UK would not have become a Nazi satellite. The terrain is extremly defensible given the military the UK had (strongest navy in the world, joint strongest air force). The UK would have been extremly unlikely to fall - the Germans never had the material advantage necessary to maintain the necessary naval advantage to create a beach head in the UK.
This is not to say that the US wasn't important - supplies of food certainly helped out and without them, the war would necessarily have degnerated into a stalemate (the UK being completly unable of pushing onto the continent with its weak army). However during this time, the Soviet Union would have recovered from the Purges and swept them off the map - the far more likely option would be a communist UK than a fascist one.
Don't flatter yourself. You helped the British, but Germany never had the capability of conquering the UK after they lost the battle of Britatin. Seelow was always a failure. Thanks for helping us keep out the Russians though, not to mention helping us keep some kind of edible food on the table.
Two comments:
Negative Income Tax, google it.
If you tax the top income bracket at 90% where do you think the top income bracket will file taxes? For an example of this in action, see Britain in the 70s.
We hear people say how much they like John Wayne, not that anything interesting happened in the movies.
The Kings Speech, Black Swan, True Grit, were all top grossing film and all original and good work.
True Grit was a remake.
That also starred John Wayne.
Ethical - yes, From a purely rational perspective, the odds of an outsourced employee being in that situation is roughly the same as the probability of the original employee having that situation. The jobs will improve the conditions of the outsourced employees more than it will lessen the conditions of the original employees, both quantatively and qualitively. It is thus the ethical option.
However, your right in a way. It is immoral, personally, for you, me and probably for most other people. However, this is not strictly logical. Our sympathies for the current employee make us place him above the outsourced employee. But ethically, all humans should have equal importance.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?