North Korea

I was reading a yahoo news piece about North Korea that stated they were punishing mourners who failed to exhibit sincere sadness and despair after the death of Kim Jong Il on Dec. 17... They are sentencing them to 6 months are hard labor in there labor camps if the people did not participate in the organized gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but didn’t cry and didn’t seem genuine... Now that is wrong if I lived in that country I would have been jumping for joy because the dictator who caused the country to be near bankruptcy is dead.... That is wrong and should be stopped you can't force a person to attend a leaders funeral or god forbid force them to cry when god know who would be sad he was dead... I thought maybe the new leader would better the country but so far he is off to a horrible start and already needs to be overthrown...  

A Good New Tax Idea

After reading a news article I have read on Yahoo News about how the government could fix the lack of tax money coming in. I have decided after reading some comments that it would be a great idea. They should get rid of the income tax for the people not corporations, and put in it's place a federal sales tax of anywhere between 2% to 5%. With this tax in place the government would be collecting taxes from a much larger base than it is currently collecting from now. They would be making money from anyone who buys anything in this country or it's territories. This would include homeless people who would be paying taxes when they get money from begging or donation and they buy something, Visitors from other countries, because you know they would have to buy gifts for family back home, Drug dealers who make money and don't pay taxes because they are always buying things. Even the people who are working under the table and not paying taxes and even the illegals.