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Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon
bonch writes "Obama's budget proposal will contain no funding for the Constellation program, which was to send astronauts to the moon by 2020. Instead, NASA will be focused on terrestrial science, such as monitoring global warming. One anonymous official said: 'We certainly don't need to go back to the moon.'"
Yep, the USA is broke, but the poorly-kept secret is that its the INCOME TAX that is chasing jobs overseas, causing American businesses to be uncompetitive and therefore go bankrupt, and so forth. Lots of people know this. They just don't know what to do about it.
Here's a hint: Abolish the income tax. Replace it with a consumption tax. This is known as "The Fair tax", has been proposed for quite a few years now, and is gaining momentum, finally.
With the fair tax, the American businesses lose the corporate income tax of 35%. They can therefore afford to lower their prices. Foreign corporations are not paying US corporate income tax, so their products cannot be lowered in price. Then everything is "fair taxed" and foreign good end up costing more than domestic, USA-produced goods.
This will get thet factories back, the good jobs back. That's what we must have. Otherwise, the strategy of impoverishing the workforce, that seems to be preferred now, will keep us from taxing people sufficiently to do things like space exploration.
Read about it at www.fairtax.org. Takes a few months of considering it to see the benefits, but getting rid of the income tax is an "or else" situation. Do or die. We do it and have prosperity, or don't do it and suffer a steady decline as we have for the last 50 years.