Living in a society there are some social responsibilities. The future generation is going to lead this country, politically, socially and economically. I for one would like every child to receive the best education possible. Look at Asian countries who send their children to school over 300 days a year. They are outpacing us. Innovation is what drove this country and education needs to be fostered to continue to drive us.

Sooner or later you will need a doctor, who is educated in some public system. Your coworkers are educated in a public system. Without public education, there would be no NASA or someone to build your 'field trip bus', much less design it. These roads, bridges and buildings you enjoy were designed and built by people with a public education.

I am going to assume you where not educated in public schools, I was. I did not have the chance to college right after High School, I am going to a public college now working on my degree. I have a great job and for the record I pay a lot of taxes. I also have significantly more than $100 left over at the end of the month. I guess my public education must have let me down.

Great rebuttal. Mod up.

When will the poor get their refund? At the end of the year? Doesn't help them much then.

Also the rich can go over to Italy and purchase their Ferrari and after a few months of 'using' it there can ship it over here and avoid that 23%. The rich will just save their money and spend in lower tax areas. Why do so many Washingtonians and Californians come to Oregon to buy big purchases? No sales tax. Black market will also sky rocket.

Fair tax is a good idea, and I believe should be part of our tax solution, but I also believe there will need to be some type of income tax.

If you don't have insurance you have to pay a fine, so there is less incentive to game the system

Iphone supports changing to a custom onscreen keyboard? Oh wait that is Android too. Swype is pretty handy for quick messages and I have my keyboard if I need to pluck out something more.

Yeah, very hard (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accounting), and I am pretty sure Google does not use some off the shelve solution like Quicken.

Agreed, how many Apache servers were 'hacked' due to being poorly set up or having insecure password.

Producing and using are two different things. I am sure QA will still be testing on windows machines. Chrome is available for Linux and Mac. Once they migrate over to what ever OS I am sure it will only be a few weeks until GTALK comes out for that platform.

I have a similar plan, and my company subsidizes nearly $1000 a month for me and my family. Over the course of a year the total paid for my Health Insurance is $18,000. Consider the poverty line in the US for a family of 4 is around $25,000 and average family income around $50,000, health care can constitute a majority share of people's expenses.

That 15% you got knocked off is still 20-30% higher then what the Insurance companies pay. Still think you got a deal?

With Android you can install whatever you want on it, it doesn't have to come from the marketplace.

Father in law = HIPAA sepcialist YOU being a HIPAA specialist.

Having an browser installed does not make a PC any less or more secure, it has been proven recently that most versions of IE have major vulnerabilities (just ask Google).

Most likely the director only knows M$ so it must be best right? Me thinks the memo came because many people want to use Macs and there main software does not support it.

I am a little offended it did make the list, it was around way before youtube and facebook.