I was about 11 years old. One of my "rich" friends said he had a Radio Shack computer at home. After school, I rode my bike over to his house. We spent the next 2 hours typing two basic programs into the TR-80's huge 4K of RAM: anumber guessing program and a "fire the cannon at the building bade of pound signs" game. We stored the programs on a cassette player. We thought we were the coolest guys around. Girls would love us! Boy was I in for a lifetime of disappointment.
1. No Income Tax. Only 15% sales tax. The sales tax is then divvied up in a seemingly logical fashion like 7% Federal Government, 3% state , 2% city, 1% unemployment, 1% social security, 1% welfare.
2. Social Security gets payed out by total amount taken in last month divided by total number of people that applied for this month
3. No subsidies.
4. Pull out military from all foreign turf.
5. Welfare only paid to people who qualify and perform menial labor -- even if it means picking up trash along road or stuffing envelopes (is that even a job any more?).
6. Counter to #3, subsidies only to companies that reduce pollution, reduce dependency on foreign oil, provide free breast enlargement.
7. gay marriage legal.
8. allowed to have as many marriages as you want as long as wives (or husbands) are fully aware. Alimony eliminated. For every wife you have you must put $50,000 in bank account in her name. You get a divorce, she gets the money.
9. free, super high speed internet access
10. cuddly bunnies for everyone
11. a person's maximum age is strictly legislated: fifty-one years, to the day. When people reach this Lastday they report to a Sleepshop in which they are willingly executed. A person's age is revealed by their palm flower -- a crystal embedded in the palm of their right hand that changes color every seven years, then turns black on Lastday.
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I was about 11 years old. One of my "rich" friends said he had a Radio Shack computer at home. After school, I rode my bike over to his house. We spent the next 2 hours typing two basic programs into the TR-80's huge 4K of RAM: anumber guessing program and a "fire the cannon at the building bade of pound signs" game. We stored the programs on a cassette player. We thought we were the coolest guys around. Girls would love us! Boy was I in for a lifetime of disappointment.
1. No Income Tax. Only 15% sales tax. The sales tax is then divvied up in a seemingly logical fashion like 7% Federal Government, 3% state , 2% city, 1% unemployment, 1% social security, 1% welfare.
2. Social Security gets payed out by total amount taken in last month divided by total number of people that applied for this month
3. No subsidies.
4. Pull out military from all foreign turf.
5. Welfare only paid to people who qualify and perform menial labor -- even if it means picking up trash along road or stuffing envelopes (is that even a job any more?).
6. Counter to #3, subsidies only to companies that reduce pollution, reduce dependency on foreign oil, provide free breast enlargement.
7. gay marriage legal.
8. allowed to have as many marriages as you want as long as wives (or husbands) are fully aware. Alimony eliminated. For every wife you have you must put $50,000 in bank account in her name. You get a divorce, she gets the money.
9. free, super high speed internet access
10. cuddly bunnies for everyone
11. a person's maximum age is strictly legislated: fifty-one years, to the day. When people reach this Lastday they report to a Sleepshop in which they are willingly executed. A person's age is revealed by their palm flower -- a crystal embedded in the palm of their right hand that changes color every seven years, then turns black on Lastday.
Is the nag chip an option?