About number 7, what precisely are you saying? Because if money is contingent on GPA, I'd be a bit concerned some might cheat if it means more money. I don't know if that's realistic though. Then there is the issue of difficult classes versus "cake" classes.

I think the federal government needs to consider ensuring the first two years of college are free, tuition-wise. Regardless of college, and regardless of one's economic background, subsidized by more taxes on higher-income earners and/or corporate income taxes.

Isn't there the question of whether this is unconstitutional here in America? I mean, didn't Obama sign it without it being passed by Congress?

Please let it be that Obama is vastly abusing power out of hopes that SCOTUS will get involved.

I don't think what you're saying makes sense.

Take Washington state for example.
According to this, I think the average sales tax rate is 8.2%. http://www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistration/ftrefunds.html

So, if an out-of-state retailer, which has no nexus within Washington state, were to pay sales tax, instead of having to figure out which locale to base the sales tax on, then keep it in their records what amount was collected goes to where, they'd just collect 8.2% under a special code in my idea.

Then we'd look at statistics. Based on non-online sales, we'd look at the total gross receipts. We'd also look at the gross receipts for all the locales. Let's say a given taxing locale is responsible for 0.31% of all the gross receipts. Then that locale would get 0.31% of the revenue collected under this special code. The algorithm may be readjusted if it turns out some locales tend to do way more online purchases than others, possibly due to remoteness.

But yes, some people may be paying more in sales tax than if the online retailer were to collect based on their taxing locale. But unless someone is making large purchases, I can't imagine it being more than a hand full of dollars per year. I mean, if someone is "overpaying" in taxes 1% per year, and that person only spends $1k per year on online purchases from out-of-state businesses, that'd be $10 more per year.

Another option would be instead of having the sales tax rate based on the average sales tax rate, it could be based on the lowest sales tax rate in the state, which, in Washington state, would probably end up being 7.0%. Although, that still would be restricted to out-of-state businesses which have no nexus within the state. While it still wouldn't equalize things with brick and mortar stores, it would bring them closer.

I feel there is a simple solution. If states could adopt a special sales tax for online purchases primarily. Here is how it'd work.

It'd have a special sales tax code for when filed. The sales tax rate would be based on the average sales tax rate for the state. Gross sales tax revenue divided by gross receipts, excluding online purchases. And the business must not have a nexus within the state in order to opt into this.

So maybe it works out to 8.1%. Then if a business sells something to someone in that state, the business only has one rate to deal with if they qualify for this special sales tax rate. That is, if they have no nexus within that state.

The state would then take the revenue under this special code and divide it amongst the locales based on a fairness algorithm.

Or in other words, if there's a specific channel someone wants to watch, but is on a very expensive tier, that being the only way to get said channel, hence the problem.

I'm kind of curious how well Comcast MyTV is going to do in those markets available to receive it. Although I'm not sure if it's cheaper.

Yeah, it's kind of hard to tell who is lying. That's why we need to do a Google search on it.

(Lame attempt at a joke. I may have excellent karma, but I'm sure this will drop it.)

What about the cost to go to medical school? How much is the health care cost comprised of in order to help the doctor repay student loans?

I'm more and more wanting UHC to happen here in America.

It seems like it would be a huge financial drain. Someone would be profiting, that's for sure.

Exercise is an important factor. If bicycling ends up saving on health care costs when one is older, yeah, you're right.

The downside to bicycling is incliment weather.

I hope the posts mentioning exercise gets modded up.

I'm in America, but I really don't like this idea. I like the idea of freedom to travel. This discourages people from traveling. The rich should have no issue with this, but for anyone not so lucky, well, this is going to hurt.

Tax the value of the vehicle, not how much it travels.

Didn't Obama tell people to contact their members of Congress which caused the House site to go down or something?

I thought the fever was to slow down the replication of the virus. Hence taking medicine to lower one's fever helps the virus replicate faster. Although, if the fever is high enough, there's danger in and of itself.

I am not a doctor or medical student.

Learning goes both ways. If a teacher doesn't get the opportunity to read the essays, then the teacher knows only what the teacher knows.

Reading a student's assignment creates the opportunity to learn something different.

On another note, I enjoyed the following comment: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2368596&cid=37015256

This would be a good thing if it didn't mean a consolidation of money in the hands of a few. Right?

Well, maybe this is only feasible for areas where it's "winter" all year round?

Is this only feasible if the servers can be left on 365 days per year? Can they be shut down during the summer as other suggest, while a clone is used in winter-areas?