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Everyone should pay taxes...regardless of their income. A flat tax is the only way to go.

Everytime Ms. Pelosi opens her mouth her words evoke an evil attitude toward America and an ignorance of its foundation and liberty. I am curious. What brand of dog food does she eat?

Doesn't everyone enjoy junk mail? What else would I line my waste baskets with?

Simplify the 1040 form:1. How much total money did earn last year? __2. Add Line 1 and an additional 10%, this is your tax. __Make check payable to the IRS.Have a nice day.

A flat tax on all income with no exemptions is the only fair tax.

I attended a seminar on the Fair Tax and think it is the best solution provided they don't keep raising the basic amount of tax.

Correction: Jeffrey Neely's salary is $179,000 not $79,000.

15% flat tax on consumption, remove income tax and shut down the IRS

I Hate junk mail! I spend hours every week combing thru every ad, letter, form, offer, application, catalog, flyer, solicitation, etc., to insure my personal information isn't hidden inside in some attachment or order form. Harry Reid is a fool.

Junk mail - Well, I have two PO boxes, one in the city and the other at a rural PO. The clerk in the country asked if I wanted it stuffed into my box, and when I said "No," she said she would not give me any. Great, but in the city there is no choice, it's crammed in there to the detriment of anything else. Fortunately, there are many trash baskets and recycle bins in that office and at the end of the day, 24-7, they are filled to the gills with the crap. One thing I have never been able to figure out. We are in a down economy where the end is to save money, yet the producers of this junk mail have plenty of cash to produce this useless garbage. One of the neatest ways I have found to deal with some of it is to open he envelopes and see if there are postage paid return envelopes enclosed. If there are, all the stuff I don't want gets crammed in and sent back to them on their 45 cents. If I had Harry Reid's address, he would get all of mine every week.

as for the failure to pass a "budget" in 1,000 days.how about a constitutional requirement that. 1. if you don't "pass" a budget (House and Senate) by summer break... Don't Come BACK! Just send in your little House or Senate lapel pin and have an emergency election. (phone in, [what the heck], you don't have to be a citizen to vote anyway) and we'll see if someone ELSE can pass one.

I favor a flat tax of some sort and elimination of the IRS. Every income earner should have some skin in the game and the fact that almost half of them pay no federal taxes is very dangerous. I am opposed to any consumption tax unless it completely replaces the income tax. Last thing we need is a new tax, which like the income tax will start small and grow every time Dems are in control.

With all the hoopla we are fed about "saving" trees & being responsible stewards of our earth, I find this to be just another insult from reid & his ilk! As to whether I "love" getting junk mail, aside from my obvious answer above, I will add; not only NO, but HELL NO!!

I am going to turn on every light in my house and let them burn all night to help Georgia Power justify building another nuclear power plant

Do I love getting junk mail? In a word, NO! In two words, Hell No!

No, I don't. There only good thing about junk mail is that it fills my recycle bin. Thank you!

I totally support a flat taxI also believe anyone receiving public taxpayer supported assistance assistance not be allowed a refund......but the money to stay in State & Federal Coffers to help others.I am over 70 and HATE JUNK MAIL

NO!,re junk mail.

Re: My celebration of earth day - I shall celebrate it the same way I did in the past before there was such a thing by doing what I would normally do on that day. In case the pundits missed something in high school science, climate change has been going on ever since the Big Bang, and has little to do with what we puny earthlings do. We are not able to stop it or prevent it, and that's the bottom line. So, all you fantasy lovers, dream on.

It would seem to me that a Flat Tax with no deductions is the only fair taxation principle that can solve the issue. I don't care if you make $1000.00 or $100,000,000,000 yearly. I know some have proposed a usage tax but this could be circumvented by a barter system. We live in this great country and that means that we should make some sacrifices. I served 5-years active duty in the Navy during Vietnam and donate Platelets every two weeks to help other to live; plus the 20% I pay in taxes so I believe I am doing the right thing. Others only take and are looking to government for handouts. There is no right that government can give; it is only from the one and true Creator. So let’s get serious and solve this issue by implementing a Flat Tax.

I'm 81 Years old and I DETEST junk mail.

Harry Reid's speech on the Postal Service and "junk mail" is a further indication of HOW FAR OUT OF CONTACT HE IS WITH THE REAL WORLD !!! The Postal Service CAN work within a budget IF Congress would stay out of their business. IF they were allowed to operate as UPS and Fedex they would be just as profitable... Congress keeps Postal Managements hands tied behind their backs and then expects miracles... They DO NEED to close small useless facilities and consolidate Rural post offices.. Maybe force retirements on those eligible as a way to reduce manpower. IF Harry Reid is "the" example of leadership in America, we are in very deep doo-doo !!!! Better grab your SCUBA gear....

I believe some combination of a flat tax and sales tax would insure that all paid some form of federal taxes. Perhaps 60% of needed revenue could come from flat tax and 40% from the general sales tax.Eliminate IRS and cut Federal Budget are a must for our Country.

another stimulus bill for WASTE MANAGEMENT and others of same ilk..fill up a huge basket, unopened, and im 79..what a waste..without 3rd class mail post office is finished..lots of jobs gone...a disaster for another productive govt program...if i trusted the internet i would never see a postman without 3rd class mail...i avoid bill paying on line...today life is internet or email...post office days are numbered...

What should immigration reform look like?Round up each and every illegal immigrant and send the back from whence they came. That includes any and all "anchor" members, child or otherwise.Round up each and every illegal immigrant now lounging in jail or prison within the United States and ship them out too.The start investigating any and all immigrants, legal and illegal, who are actively trying to overthrow the rightful government of the United States, its laws and its Constitution, and ship them out.The send the returning military forces from the Middle East to patrol our borders and only allow entry to immigrants who have legally applied and been approved.

I strongly dislike junk mail.It is a burden on a towns ability to recycle.

I have written to my US representative to ask that the tax code is changed to require 1099s to be sent to recipients of all forms of public and private assistance that exceed $600 per calendar year. EBT, Section 8 vouchers, WIC, Medicaid, rent assistance, utility assistance, forgiven loans, foster care payments, daycare assistance, etc, etc, should be made visible to the taxpayers and congress. 1099's are sent for Social Security and Unemployment and these are programs where the recipients actually paid into the system so why should those that potentially abuse the system be invisible to the tax system?

Junk mail gives me some insight as to there the “bail-out” money goes. I get a credit card application from various banks twice a week. Spread across the nation, that’s quite a postage expenditure.

We do not like getting junk mail. It's incredibly wasteful and we hardly ever look at it. When we do it's an automatic throwaway.

Tax Reform?It's called the FAIR TAX.It's very very simple. Even idiot democrats can do it.Here it is...1. No income tax.2. No capital gains tax3. No death tax.4. No filing income taxes.Why?1. The tax only applies at the retail level..which affects EVERYONE.2. There is a built in PREBATE for groceries and medical stuff.3. The bottom line is that if you don't want to pay any taxes, then don't buy anything. However, if you do buy stuff (even criminals, illegal aliens, and drug dealers go to Walmart), then you pay taxes.Done and done.Neal Boortz explains it better than I, but that is the gist. Simple. Waay better than the bureaucratic nightmare we have now.

I dislike "junk" mail including political surveys asking for money, advertisers whom I wouldn't seek out for any reason, political writings not worthy of the waste of paper or the stamps, and announcements for totally new and different ways to. . . .Please keep your junk to yourself! My shredder is wearing out again.

from the mailbox to the round file

Are you out of your mind! I have to dispose of all that crap! Charge first class for junk mail, and you can lay off 2/3 of the post office.

I HATE JUNK MAIL ! I am a senior...imagine having to trot thru the snow to my mail box in the dead of winter...to just pick up junk mail! Nope..I will find better ways to communicate with the world.....

Fine, Harry -- you can have all my junk mail. After all, aren't you a SENIOR, too? one of the ones who should be put out to pasture, since you're 'past-your' sell-by date and inefficient at your 'job' !

Any who wish to be heard and are fearful of the subsequent personal rejection from family and friends need to find a place where life and death issues are not supposed to be discussed!

SOLVE THE POST OFFICE PROBLEM? VERY EASY, JUST CHARGE THE JUNK MAILERS A NICKLE A PIECE MORE. I DON'T EVEN LOOK AT MOST OF THE JUNK I GET AND JUST RIP IT UP.

Re: Tax burden.The income tax should be repealed and a national sales tax put in its place.

The first thing I do when I get my mail is throw out the obvious junk, save what I know is important, set aside a pile that I think I should check before throwing it out, and then sit down and go through the last pile, most of which I do throw out. Most of it is "Please send money."The rest is mostly ,"Buy me." Also in the mix is political mail.When I am gone for a week, the Post Office saves it for me in a big box which is so heavy I can barely carry it. It takes me a day or so to sort it all out.Does that tell you what I think of junk mail?

The only time Nancy Blowsie speaks is when she can pump Balloon Juice into the mic. She knows NOTHING about our Republic, and zilch about freedom! Can we weld her mouth shut and cut off her arms so they won't wave around? The dummies in Kalifornia keep re-electing her so she must come from a Communist enclave out there, or the people of that state are exceptionally blind.

We are gaining rapidly on the getting the tax quotient "about right" If we can get, say, 10% more people to answer that taxes are just right, then the old maxim will have been reached without dispute! That is "When we know for sure that we have a successfully transformed to a Socialist system is when we run out of other peoples money." (paraphraised from a statement by Samuel Clemens, aka: Mark Twain. In a side note, it is with great pleasure that Twian's railing at his publishers editors to stop changing everything he wrote to placate the public, and to publish what he wrote exactly as his manuscript stated. Now after nearly a century later, The Bancroft Library at Berkely is republishing his work as Mark Twain desired. This gives me some hope that when enough people take on the establishment, positive changes can be made to occur, much to the chagrin of those who lie and die by the rule of "Let no truth be known! Is there really any hope alive out there? Are there still people who will pick up their respective responsibilities to force the America we used to know and cherrish, to be brought back to a rule of law and liberty, a duty we all owe our progeny carried faithfully from our forebears? I do hope so. I intend to do my part. Don't do a Roger Clemens and lie or misspeak to congress. Go out and tell Congress, et al, the whole truth as you see it, whether they want to here it or not. Make no mistrakes tryanny is rampant, and is not tolerant, so state your truths in irrefutable statements, clearly, so your fellow truth bearers can rely on your statements as if they were their own. Pick up the ball, let's play real ball - hard ball.

Good Morning all. I fully beleive that the federal tax code should simply say that if you have any type of income, you will pay 10% on everything. There will be no loopholes, no deductions of any kind. You would not need anyone to f\figure out your taxes, unless you are acretin and cannor do the simplist arthmatic. They could then junk 79,000 pages of tax laws that even the experts can't figure out.

I believe our current Tax system is insane.I think we should just go to a flat Tax and abolish the I.R.S.We should also do away with entitlements for ILLEGAL ALIENS!

I'm 87 years old now and I HATE getting so much junk mail. Magazines try to entice me with favorable rates. I turn them down, but they proceed to send me their magazines anyway. Any charity to which I've given in the last 50 years continues to send me a request for money, usually quarterly.From political organizations I must get at least two requsts a week. Some organizations, I suspect, know that I'm old and think that I'll forget that I've donated. Fortunately, I keep records!

Taxes of any nature are one of many responsibilities citizens are responsible for. Benefits and responsibilities of citizenship run hand and hand - if you don't pay taxes, you have no say in how we spend the money in our coffers. Taxes should be paid in the same manner for all citizens, regardless of any demographic - this principle should be followed in all aspects of government so that government doesn't exploit one demographic for another. The only fair tax is an equal tax for all - one tax rate for ALL citizens and no loopholes.

It shouldn't be surprising that on one hand the left is trying to promote "junk mail" to save an bloated, inefficient,government run agency a.k.a the U.S. Post Office. While on the other hand the overall cost and the "effect on the environment" to produce and dispose of junk mail is never factored in when it doesn't fit their agenda of the day.

The only fair and equitable solution to the tax dilemma is a flat tax that could be administerd exactly the way the Social Security and Medicare taxes are. This is the only way we could ever have every American pay a fair share. Under this system if your income is small, so is your tax liability. What could possibly be fairer? Professors Robert E. Hall and Alvin Rabushka nailed it in their Book "Flat Tax." This is, and remains, the only viable solution. The sooner our federal government realizes this, the better it will be for all of us.

I believe that the "Fair Tax" should be the new way to tax. Get the IRS the heck out of our business.

Stop the insane spending!! Until we check that, taxes are just a mute point. We can never pay off the debt when we keep increasing it by 5 Trillion dollars every year. There are not enough tax payers to resolve the issue!

Stop all junk mail. after all, it's junk. Requires trees to die for the paper, money to be wasted on printing, mailing, and disposal. Make the PO 100% private. Let UPS or FedEx have it. They will do better for less without going in the red. What does the government do well? Not the mail, healthcare, auto making...? It's good at being bad, spending to much, taxing too much, growing too big.

I hate junk mail!

Interesting that they would use this particular word to describe their results:a·nom·a·lous - adjective 1. deviating from or inconsistent with the common order, form, or rule; irregular; abnormal: Advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe.2. not fitting into a common or familiar type, classification, or pattern; unusual: He held an anomalous position in the art world.3. incongruous or inconsistent. ORYour understanding of the universe sucks and nature around you is pointing that out!.....I'd go with the latter....the planet is NEVER wrong....AND..."belief structures" are the primary [if not the only] source of both TYPE I AND TYPE II errors....

Where are the environmentalists on this? Not one single cry out about how many trees could be saved if we cut down on junk mail? Here is an idea, since the gov't was kind enough to provide free phones to welfare recipients and indigents, how about we just buy each senior citizen "family" an ipad and teach them how to use it. The govt can pay to provide the ipad and teach the class and the money saved over time could help pay down the deficit, probably about as much as the Buffett Plan would have.

The obvious solution is some sort of flat tax. Standard deduction for everyone, very few if any other deductions, everyone pays the same percentage of what is left. The tax return becomes postcard-sized, and most of the IRS can be eliminated. Won't ever happen, but we can dream!

Junk mail? "Go Green " save a tree -and space in my garbage! As a senior, junk mailis a pain!

Put term limits of 2 terms om elected officials.No pensions and health care after terms. No entitlements for welfare, without drug tests.The government, has to live within it's means, and n ot just print more money to cover it's debts...Stop lobbiedts from running congress. This would be a good dtart.....

I'm sorry, but it would be most impolite for me to say just where I think "junk mail" should be deposited. Suffice it to say, not in MY mailbox! Not that it would matter to Mr. Obama, but I am a senior to whom his comment does not resonate.

I'll tell you how much my husband and I love the Junk Mail. We throw it in the trash with out opening it.

I was called to work for a few months in 2011 and made around $16,000.00. Because of those earnings, I had to pay income tax on my Social Security. In addition, I had to pay income tax on my 2011RMD from my IRA. After working and saving for over, 40 years, plus contributing to Social Security, I think it's a shame to continue to tax seniors/pensioners. It seems like they're trying to wring every last dollar they can get from people for their failed policies.

Tax burden presentations ought or reflect a citizens total tax burden, Federal, State, Local, real estate, all the sales taxes, taxes on phone bills, utility bills, and this list goes on. If this burden is over 50%, I ask, doesn't this kill individual ambition? Present take here in CA for the middle class on just the obvious taxes: Feds- 15%, Social Security - 12.5%, Medicare 2.5%, State 8%, Real Estate (assume $300,000 house) $4,500 or about 6% on $75,000 income. That is an easy 42%. Add 20% if your Federal rate is 35% We are now at 62% without touching all the hidden taxesJames Alderink

"Too big to fail is not all the problem. When banks are revolving doors to big government, who would not want to scratch the others back. Watch it happen, there will be a collapse of the financial system and as the Bible says, we will "toss our gold and silver (money) to the bats and the moles".

The whole reason the left-media and the liberals in Congress and the Administration can get away with the lies about the tax cut being just for the rich is that they compare the smaller dollar decrease in taxes paid by those with lower incomes than "the rich". If you only paid $1000 in taxes before and they dropped by 1/3 (15% to 10%) they paid $333 less. But the guy who paid >$100,000 in taxes will see his dollar amount drop by thousands of dollars but the percentage will be much less than 1/3.

I will fly the U.S. Flag, upside down!

I heartily dislike getting junk mail!

When I heard that comment from Senator Reid this morning, I fell out cracking up. What a foolish comment! I get tons of junk mail, and it all winds up in the recycle bin. I don't know of any senior who likes to get junk mail. I'm 70 and retired and have known for years that the real problem with the postal service is the over generous retirement benefits it pays and will have to continue to pay. The same for the other public service union employees, and the congress itself. The private sector is lucky to get a small fraction of what public employees get in pensions.

Celebrate Earth Day? Ummmmmmmmmm.Maybe sleep-in til 6:00, put on a hunting video for the dog to watch. Cook some pancakes for the two of us. Drink some coffee. Put in a load of laundry. Watch the Rockies game. Take a bike ride. Actually, that sounds like a normal Sunday. I'll let the goofs in Boulder celebrate earth day for me. That is, if they've recovered from their smoke-a-thon today.

Pretty sure Neely's salary & locality pay, as a "seasoned SES executive" was around $179,000 versus the $79,000 mentioned in this article.

Junk mail is just what the name implies - "JUNK." As a 75 year old the last thing I need in the mail box is 'junk'. At my summer home in Maine it get's burned every day without even being opened.

I HATE JUNK MAIL!!!!!

I say let the Children that were born here or were brought here at an early age, Take the test for Citizenship. They must be either A Mexico Citizen or swear an oath to the Constitution of the United States. They cannot have dual Citizenship. One or the other as simple as that. The older ones that have been here for years illegally, should be put on notice that they will be at the back of the line behind those that want to come here legally. They also have to swear an oath to the Constitution of the USA. No Dual Citizenship for any of them.

How will I celebrate Earth Day? The same way I celebrate every first day of the week - I will attend worship services at my church, partake of the Lord's Supper, and make a contribution to my church. Then, I'll go home and have a leisurely lunch, after which I may take a nap. After all, it's Sunday, isn't it?

A waste of time and money. At 82 all I like to get is mail from my family. Even our mail MAN, hates it. It is recycled. Dont even open it. Sen Reid is nuts.

The total tax burden- Federal, State and Local- is confiscatory. The scope of the Federal Government is way beyond control.The Constitution has language that might afford a means towards relief. We would have the benefits of 1)competitioon among the states 2. varieties of local laws permititting citizens choices 3.being nearer to their electorates , more responsibility of the elected and thier minions to to better informed citizen electorates and 4. citienshaving more control over the choices of what programs are needed or wanted and at what cost. Perhaps S. Carolina v Washington state over Boeing and the NLRB provides something of an example.

I'm a senior and I HATE getting junk mail.

I'm an 87 yr. old senior and I HATE junk mail. What planet does Harry Reid come from?

You might check Mr. Neely's pay of $79,000. That equates to a GS-12 without any locality pay. What I've read is that he is in charge of Region 9 for the GSA. I suspect he is at least a couple higher than GS-12 to be in that spot. From that also, I take that he's probably based out of S.F. You can check out GS pay scales with locality rates included at http://www.opm.gov/oca/12tables/pdf/SF.pdf

I agree with PeggyL whoever she is. Also I will be 65 next week and my life is much more exciting than junk mail. What an idiot that Harry Reid!

My tax burden is fair (25% bracket). It would be great if the politicians would simplify the tax code so that everyone (above some minimum AGI) would share in paying taxes. I favor a minimum number of tax brackets (2 or 3) and an elimination of most deductions with a cap on the mortgage interest deduction. Get rid of tax credits and tax shelters.

First, some time with God in church. Then, I think I will return some lead to the earth, in the berm behind my target. Or scatter some over the prarie shooting some trap. Maybe I'll burn some fossile fuels and take a ride on my Harley. I will laugh at the atheist idiots who will be dancing to their earth god Gaia.

"Junk Mail", as such, is a waste of time, paper and actions by the Postman but now we receive "Junk Mail" via the Internet also and I confess to wasting a lot of time which even this 82 year old could make more productive gardening and cutting wood for next Winter's heat...

America should go to a "reasonable" graduated flat tax as Steve Forbes suggested, with no loopholes, no deductions, no exceptions and a reduction in the IRS!

If I said what I would like to on this subject, you couldn't post it. We are NOT passed "too big to fail". What is coming is far more frightening than a Cold War nuclear exchange.

A gift subscription to Saturday Evening Post had my name spelled incorrectly. So when a flood of junk mail filled the box for the next year with that same spelling, it was obvious who was the culprit. I HATE junk mail as much as I hate robo-calls and most of my senior friends do too!

I don't care one way or the other; most of it goes in the trash anyhow. I'm far more irritated by the 8m Viagra ads that flood my email "junk" file and the other trash that makes it into my main email folder ... Maybe Biden can fix that ...

For earth day ... i'm going to vomit into a bio-degradable bag ...

If more junk mail had pre-paid envelopes I would send more back, empty, to help the Postal Service!

As a CPA and veteran of ten thousand tax returns and a quarter century of dealing with tax law, tax reform should look like the Fair Tax. Abolish the IRS and the code, because congress will always find ways to abuse and steal as long as it is there to tinker with. It is the primary source of their power. Also, the Buffett Rule will not raise any revenue. Zero. Nada. Because people will change their behaviors and the tax base will shrink as a result.

Junk mail goes thru the shredder and it makes great cat litter material and bedding...my ole "Big Red" cat loves it. What are you reading? Just got "A Nation of Moochers" from the library....getting madder and madder about the whole "entitlement" culture we have. If something isn't done soon to cut back on them /cut them out, , the nation will drown under this weight of debt. Are we blind or just stupid?

Mr Reid's comment regarding elder Americans "loving" junk mail...INSULTING!

I'm 83 years old, and NO, I don't love getting junk mail!!! It goes right in the trash can. Another thing I don't like is listening to whiney Harry "Do-Nothing" Reid. How can Nevadans stand him????

I love junk mail like a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Would that there were a way for me to have all my junk mail deliveries routed to Harry "I love junk mail" Reid.

Re.:Junk Mail Since this dinosaur from Nevada likes "junk mail" can someone find his address so all of us that detest this practice can collect all of it and send it to reid to enjoy,since he has ALL the time on his hands and is not doing anything AT ALL usefull in the position that he is in.

Harry Reid and the rest of the Democrats in Congress, especially those D-Senators who have ducked their responsibilities under the law for three years now, need to be shown the door. Let's stamp their foreheads "Junk Mail" and stuff them into the nearest mailbox.

That area the environmentalists are interested in keeping off-limits to the Keystone XL pipeline is commonly referred to as "planet earth". No matter where or how TransCanada reroutes the pipeline, the moonbats will be circling above...

With receiving "junk" mail,it gives me a chance to fill up my garbage container. I don't even have to open it.

As a senior who hates junk mail, I would like to forward all of mine to Reid since he seems to want it. Reid's statement shows just how out of touch he is with the public. How did he get reelected?

As one who receives 20-30 pieces of political and charity-related solicitations EVERY DAY, I vehemently disagree with Mr. Reid. I get so p.o.'d (pun intended) opening the mail every day, that even worthy candidates and charities wind up in the shredder with the rest. The Postal Service's budget problems could be eliminated with rate increases on those classes of mail; then the organizations would not be so free with their FREQUENT and MULTIPLE mailings, and might be a little more careful with their mailing lists. He knows senior citizens who really think the sender means it when addressing an 8-page letter "Dear Friend"? Come on, Harry.

You must be kidding Harry. I am 71 years old, get very little junk mail because when I do, I send it right back to the sender. They get the message, sooner or later.

Despite Mr. Reid's assurance, this senior citizen does not look forward to junk mail, quite possibly because so much of it is from the DNC. I still read and watch some television in an attempt to keep up with the world. Mr. Reid needs to get out of the senate and join the real world and see what all us younger than him, seniors are really doing. Of course the real world is a totally foreign space for his kind.

I've always thought Earth day was to remind that select portion of our population requiring it what planet they were on......anybody got some chips?On a more serious note, I sometimes wonder if the two most serious consequences of "man-made" global warming are the loss of freedoms suffered voluntarily by our citizenry and the damage done to the reputations of reputable scientists who have dared oppose "the consensus". I fear those freedoms lost may require drastic steps to regain. Let us hope that the ballot box yields results that will promote freedom and liberty once again.

Mr. Romney pays the federal government 15% of his gross income; Mr. Obama pays 20% but my working class neighbors pay about 28% (when you include the combined 14% payroll tax that does not apply to most of the Obama or Romney income). My neighbors have a little envy for the elite who are asked to pay the AMT – not because of their success but rather do to their payroll tax holiday above $110,000 – (a fairness issue omitted from the article).Better tax reform for both individuals and business and a new standard in tax fairness can be described in one sentence: Tax individual and corporate income at a flat 8% rate (with no deductions, credits or loopholes), tax individual net wealth at 2% (excluding $15,000 cash and retirement funds) and impose a 4% Value Added Sales Tax (VAT) on business.The low tax rates will produce about $500 billion more than current federal revenue with no need for AMT, payroll, estate, and capital gains taxes or deferral of foreign income.Mr. Obama reportedly is worth $5,000,000 and Mr. Romney at least $200,000,000. Under the 2-4-8 Tax Blend Mr. Obama would pay $5,000 more in taxes and Mr. Romney would pay about $2,500,000 more. Sound fair?Eugene Patrick Devany, JD, MPAwww.TaxNetWealth.com

My oven will be cleaning at 500 degree which I usually do every year on earth day. All my lights turn on. Back to my normal every day life the next day.

Going to take a ride on my Harley and therefore spew some more carbon into the earth's atmosphere.

Due to junk mail my box rental has gone from about $50.00 per year to $250.00 a year over the past couple of years. Also if my box over loaded and the USPS had to hold it, that was additional expense.

The rich and the big corporations pouring money into the campaign funds are not being hurt by taxes, in fact "paying less than my Secretary does, does not define fair share". The rich have invested into foreign countries when we can't even afford health care. They get their dividends due to a corrupt insider trading scam with Lobyists that have existed since big business owns this country. Are you actually saying any American can run and potentially win an election witth little or no money or connections? Really? This is a rigged country since the slaves and railroads swindlers started to see the big old aristocracy and mansions in the country bought with other peoples sweat, blood and tears.The rich hold onto their money and most is hidden in some tax exempt country or somewhere so they don't have it visible , but can call it up anytime to bribe the right person or buy them a trip or home to do their biddings. Come-on we all know the rich are corrupt and strive to stay right where they are. Giving deals to their friends and contracts to the friends in the big business just like the $800.00 toilet for the jet and the $500.00 hammer...

Secure our borders with drone technology and military manpower. Suspend all immigration applications until the backlogs are cleared while enforcing the volumes of immigration laws already in existence.

I am more concerned about government employees staying in 5 star hotels and my tax $ buying all their alcohol. Military personnel around the world frequent houses of sex for hire, and I do not know of any court marshals for it. That is why there are many sex for hire houses near where ships come to port around the world.

The size of the ridiculous federal government beast is related to the amount of tax revenue that we feed it. So - first reduce the amount of money we feed it, i.e. decrease taxes across the board. Second, set a universal flat rate with no deductions or loopholes. Everybody pays the same percent, period. Eliminate the death tax, marriage penalty, etc. Of course, this is a pipe dream and will never come to pass.

Junk Mail!The enviro wienies complain about landfills,but junk mali is good? Where do you think the junk mail is sent?To the landfill! Speaking of real junk mail.How about those flyers your local+state reps send carping on what a good job they are doing?Now there is some real junk mail!

If all of the subscribers to Patriot Post would forward just one day of junk mail to Harry Reid, maybe we could do something about the mess.

We are on the "do not mail" list and will continue to be on it to stop all the junk mail to our address. For the same reason we are on the "do not call" list to stop all the innane phone calls at supper time. In addition we make sure all the unwanted emails go directly to our spam folder so they can be easily deleted. We are one of the retired folks Reid is saying wants all this junk? He is the one that is out of touch with reality and apparently has been for many years.

Junk mail... I immediately shred it and use it to line my chicken brooder (really, I do!). When it isn't chicken-hatching season, I use it as fire-starter for my wood stoves. Do I mind receiving it? Don't care much one way or the other. I just use it for the best purpose available. Junk.

I am a tax preparer and I fully support the Fair Tax. I would be easy to administer, it would give the people the choice when they wanted to pay the tax and it is fair to all. www.fairtax.org tells much more about Fair Tax. It has considerable support in congress (HR25) We just need to keep the pressure on congress to get this done.

Too big to fail?Has any one in the media heard of the Titanic?

Immigration reform. . . . .Just for starters, I would stop paying illegals to be here. You want to be here, come through the front door and go through the process that is set up, including learning the language.

Please let us know if you "love getting junk mail." ------ First let me say that I am 72 and living on SS. Therefore I am on the do not pay taxes list. But I paid taxes for my working years struggling to raise a family. I was very upset at the way government was squadering my tax dollars. I felt that if my money is to be squandered I could do so very well without government doing it for me. Now as for junk mail. I have a box at the Post Office. When I get junk mail I filter through to insure no regular mail is accidently pushed inside. Then all junk mail is dumped into the can kindly provided by the Post Master. Part of the Post Master's job description is being responsible to dump the ever filling trash can. Junk Mail is described as any mail I do not want which is most of it. One of the types of junk mail is labled in my name or current resident. Of course flyers from local businesses are dumped without being read. One thing I do slightly enjoy is putting the junk back into the preaddressed envelope that says No Postage Neccessary and dropping back into outgoing mail. I believe that if the tons of junk mail were eliminated the Postal Service could be streamlined and run efficiently with far fewer employees.

The reason Harry Reid likes junk mail is because he's full of sht. Nancy Blowsie wants to muzzle the First Amendment because she's afraid of the blowback over her frickin "We have to pass it so we can see what's in it" buffoonery surrounding the Obamanationcare Bill. They're both A*es that need to be booted out of Congress now! The Dems have become more vocal about guttin the Constitution, we need to get more vocal about silencing them as a power.

I plan on celebrating by driving my diesel Dodge truck very slowly through downtown Boulder, CO!

Is "too big to fail" a thing of the past, or are we just getting started? Are you serious??? By the time we're through nationalizing every business/industry out there, everything will be a part of the Federal Government, and thus too big to fail. We're barely getting started, comrades.

If foreiners want to become American Citizens,apply for a visa,and waite your turn. Those visa holders,volunteering for military service,should recieve American Citizenship upon finishing their first enlistment.Only with an honorable discharge,or re-enlistment.No bad timers,allowed!

Panetta needs to stop being a hypocrite and lead by example.The servicemen and women he commands are forced to uproot their families and move to a new duty station every 2-3 years.Panetta's "duty station" is the Pentagon. Perhaps he should move his family there.

Real immigration reform would consist of troops placed every 50 yards armed with machine guns pointed at Mexico (and Canada, too, if you wish) with orders to shoot anyone who comes within 100 feet of the solid wall. Immigration reform.

Wonderful news regarding U.S. Army Spc. Leslie Sabo Jr. finally receiving a well-deserved medal of honor. My sympathy goes out to his widow and his brother - both for the loss of such a valiant husband and brother, and for the fact that they must suffer direct exposure to Øbama in the conferring of this great honor...

If the federal government enforced the laws on the books a lot of the illegal immigration problem would go away. SO:1. Enforce the laws on hiring of illegals, increase fine for breaking those laws high enough to COST the manufacturer.2. Stop the federal government from supporting illegals by food stamps, rental allowances, free medical care, etc and etc.3. Cut the special immigration loopholes that allows thousands upon thousands to come in to take jobs that Americans need. The crap that americans do not have the capabilities so we gotta go to foreign lands to get the talents is BS.These three items would send many/most of the illegals back home because of no means of living.Steps to control the Drug smugglers may require some military units on the borders...the firepower of the smugglers far exceeds the firepower of the border patrol, who I understand are not allowed to fire in many cases.Not only would items 1-3 save money it would provide a lot of jobs for American citizens who would pay taxes and spend the money here instead to sending it to Mexico or elsewhere.I'm sure there are many other problems in immigration that I am not aware of but the above would be a great start.BUT the legislative branch will not pass a bill to force employers to use available information to insure that no illegals are hired. They want the votes - but illegal are NOT SUPPOSED to be able to vote!! That is why the Administration will not accept state laws requiring Identification at the polls.THE WHOLE MESS IS AS CROOKED AS THE MAFIA, THEY JUST HIDE IT BETTER.

Too bad some reporter won't ask Pres. Obama how prosperity works from the bottom up when the people at the bottom don't have the means to hire people and pay them.I've never gotten a job from a poor person.It used to be an admirable trait to have the desire and goals to become more well off. And it used to be that those who work hard and become successful were looked up to.The socialists among us are making huge inroads into promoting jealousy of success. A necessary thing to make socialism part of our society.

Junk mail is just that: junk! We don't need it, we don't want it. We throw it out before it's read. What a waste. I decided at one time to switch the contends of those pre-addressed envelopes and send them back. But that would mean the post-office would have to pick-up and deliver them. They already do such a shoddy job for too much money that I stopped. My mailbox gets stuffed with worthless paper day after day. I dread the months before Christmas when it is worse than ever.

Isn't thurpose of junk mail to fill the dump? Line the bird cage? Create something for the boy scouts to pick up to earn money? Whoops, I'm revealing my age.

Flat tax or Federal sales tax. I'd be content with either. This convoluted mess we are stuck with now (meaning the tax code, not (necessarily) the Congress), has to go!

I would love to have no junk mail and no political garbage Im paying for with my tax dollar.

Talk about hypocrisy:Nancy Pelosi (D,CA) says: "Our Founders had an idea," she continued. "It was called democracy. It said elections are determined by the people, the voice and the vote of the people, not by the bankrolls of the privileged few. This Supreme Court decision flies in the face of our Founders' vision and we want to reverse it." Then why is she behind an effort for a judicial invalidation of a popular vote to ban gay marriage?

I am retired and 73 years old. I DO NOT like getting junk mail!! Harry Reid is way way out of touch as with most of the Obama Administration.

For Earth Day may I suggest burning all the junk mail. Start saving all your junk mail to burn on Earth Day next year.

The only thing I can say good about junk mail is that I know that the mail's been delivered if something's in the mailbox. Advertising mail from local businesses can be handy, but most of the garbage that arrives in the mailbox is exactly that. Straight from the mailbox to the circular file. And yes, I guess I'm a senior citizen so Harry can go pound sand too.Someone should investigate to find out how many times Harry Reid's mother threw him on the floor as an infant. I mean this level of brain damage doesn't come from mere dropping.

Perhaps bank tellers didn't lose their jobs because of ATM machine abundance, as per Barack Obama, but rather because all the home town banks were swallowed up by the 'too-bog-to-fail' banks that kept the assets but spit out the staff.

Too big to fail should be done, finished, and totally washed up. Unfortunately, Glorious Leader has too many buddies in businesses that are too big to fail. How can they continue contributing to his campaigns, &c. if they're not bailed out? If a private business messes up so badly that it fails, well sorry guys, you're outta luck. Life's tough all around.

I'm this |-| close to retirement age and really, really HATE junk mail but apparently poor Harry doesn't get enough, so I'm going to collect mine for a month and sent it all to his DC office.

Go home, go to the back of the line, and apply legally to come here. If that's too much trouble for the wannabe Demorats that's too bad. Illegal immigrants are on different than illegal shoppers, aka shoplifters, or illegal bank withdrawers, aka bank robbers. They've broken the law, no excuses. They didn't just happen to be strolling along the border and somehow get 20 or 30 or way more miles into this country.

NO

Junk mail is unbelievably bad advertising for those enterprises dumb enough to use it! Kill it and you save post office cost, garbage costs and my waisted time. Where are the tree huggers? Busy as a neighborhood organizer?

Earth Day can't be properly celebrated without a large picture of V I Lenin to shoot at with lead projectiles. Having no such picture, nor wanting one, I will celebrate the day by firing up my lawn mower and cutting the lawn, maybe, if I can work up my ambition.

Consumption tax would have everyone paying into the system.

Any immigration reform needs to be entirely separate from illegal immigrants presently in this country. Citizenship must be limited to those that understand and agree with our founding principles. Since I believe many/most not living here would desire to be admitted, I see no issue with selecting those that would be of most benefit to this country. And I also hope that any consideration of immigration would cause present citizens to appreciate what we have .

RE: Ronald Reagen: HE was all for the Buffet rule. I have him 3x plugging fair tax and to raise the tax in a recession on the super rich. He even had the super rich write him letters like Buffet. I asked you, would he be the parties nominee or is he to warm and fuzzy?Next, everyone pays the same. Mitt pays half of what I do.Close all loopholes.Since the Tea Party wants to privatize the Post Office, kill that silly law they passed that is killing the post office. bad mistake good Intention.Kill all the junk mailI have no love for the rich for I have yet to see them locally create any jobs. I seen them by new cars, 1,000,000 Dollars homes, a new country club but no Jobs. I did see the government create 500 jobs.(Stimulus which the Tea party Congressman took credit for yet voted against. As for from the down up comment, I don't see the top down working either.

As a 82 year old senior who has a life without junk mail, I believe Reed only proves what a liberal loon idiotic dumbocRAT he is. I don't open mail from companies or people I don't know, I treat that mail in the same manner my e-mail account on Yahoo does, it goes into trash cans (folders).

Getting rid of junk mail takes time away from doing other necessary or fun things. It fills our garbage dump therefore is an environmental problem. It does keep the US Post Office open and running.

I will celebrate Earth day, Lenin's birthday and Hitler's birthday by reading the Patriot Post, Lucianne, and Drudge before I work on my home records.

Earth Day? What is that? April 22 is "Cylinder Appreciation Day". This is the day we pay homage to the wonders and benefits of the internal combustion engine. Count up all of the cylinders of every internal combustion engine you own (yes, lawnmowers count!). If your "CA" meets or exceeds your age, CONGRATS - you are showing true appreciation of one of mans greatest inventions. If you fall short, we'll I'm sure you can find a V10 Dodge Viper on CarTrader or some other site.Bob - CA of 58!

I'll keep this very simple, as the tax code SHOULD be. A FLAT TAX everyone (yes everyone) pays the same rate. No reductions -- no Congressional opt outs!! THEN the left and the media would have to find another thing to b**ch about, and mislead people with.,

ANY income tax is an unhealthy burden on the citizen - not because of the amount, but because of the principle. An income tax implies that you must account to the United States government for every penny you receive, and either prove it is not taxable income or pay a tax upon it. This is contrary to liberty. This is why the Constitution originally prohibited the United States from collecting any direct taxes directly from citizens, but required that such taxes be apportioned by state.A consumption tax is much less intrusive; it only requires that a seller of goods report the amount of receipts for taxable sales. Since relatively few people are merchants, a few people can administer the taxes for many of their neighbors without an undue burden of compliance, and the government does not need to know who earned what. If we are concerned about demanding taxes from those of limited means (and we should be), we can simply exempt essential purchases (food, clothing, utilities, medicine, etc.) from taxation. Modern cash register software can easily account for taxable and non-taxable goods, so the actual paperwork should be minimal. The exemptions under this plan would apply equally to all citizens - no more discrimination on the basis of earnings or wealth. (The wealthy would automatically pay proportionately more in taxes since they spend a larger share of their money on "non-essential" goods.) If a welfare recipient gets so much in benefits as to be able to buy the latest electronic toy, then this is a way to recover some of the excess benefits. Best of all, NO MORE INDIVIDUAL TAX RETURNS! Is this too simple for the government, or what? Can someone please explain why this is not an acceptable version of the Fair Tax?

Q.) How will you celebrate Earth Day?A.) I'm going to eat huge can of beans and fart all day. Using IPCC math, that should raise the temperature of the Earth about 15 degrees Celsius.

I usually sort through my mail right beside my trash can and before I go in the house I'm down to almost nothing.

Flying home to California . . .Panetta is looking for alternatives. Best alternative I can think of is quit his job and stay in California.

Well, actually. yes. for two reasons.. 1- I used to work for the USPS. I handled that 'junk' mail for a living. It keeps the 1st class mail costs down- although the US should be paying $1.00 per First Class letter, like the rest of the world.. 2- My brother retired from the USPS after 38 years of service. Junk mail keeps him in retirement $$. the postal service is one of the functions of Government that is necessary. You and I cannot deliver the mail alone, or together. thus, it is a function of Government to see that the mail flows far and wide across the country. That it should do so at a 'profit' is not in the Constitution, nor is it necessary. The current USPS is a prime example of government trying to run a business. When I worked for the USPS in 1978-1980- The supervisors would send people home in the morning- then call MANDATORY 2 hrs overtime. The supervisor would move up a job level, that guy up a level, that guy up and the top guy would come down from the Mahogany Row and work on the floor.. all drawing overtime and premium shift pay.. When Reagan took office, his new Postmaster General issued the edict of NO OVERTIME. Half of the new Pontiacs, Buicks and Cadillacs in the parking lot were up for sale the following week.

A consumption tax such as "The Fair Tax" which is added to goods at their retain consumption point ( not a vat ) makes good sense. The book says adding approximately 30% would compensate for today ibcome, excise FICA and Medicare taxes.The retail price would be lower than today because taxes imbedded along the way would be eliminated. Everything would be taxed but a rebate would be sent to every filing entity to compensate for the tax collected on basic survival items.This additional government burden would be easily offset by the Massive admin savings in other areas.Five years ago Steve Forbes said he favored a flat taxBeCause of problems in determining which goods were at the final end user stage.This was disingenuous then and now!States do this all the time in administering sales tax.This will never get traction from TPTB cause it eliminates both the carrot and the stick and therefore their main source of graft and power

P.S. I just got an idea - how about all us old folks send our junk mail to Harry Reid. Then he'd have something to do. He's sure not doing anything else up in DC.

Maybe Obama is pushing immigration reform so he canfinally become a U.S.citizen himself.

This is an email I sent out earlier in regards to the comments of Harry Reid on junk mail:Speaking of junk mail, can you believe the junk that comes out of the mouth of this out-of-touch Senate leader? Can anybody believe that he means what he says? Does anybody believe that he comes home with the pleasant expectation of pouring through his junk mail? Or could it be that his words in the second paragraph above express his true interest, that the junk mail is very important to the people who SEND it--the people who lobby for it and give him money to force it on people who do not want it, at a cheap postal rate that those same seniors have to subsidize with their meager incomes?Speaking for myself, a senior and then some, I so look forward to and love junk mail that I stuff it all back into the pre-paid envelope and mail it back from whence it came with a demand that they remove my name from their mailing list. Sometimes I include junk mail from other people so they can enjoy the same pleasure I enjoy from receiving their junk mail. jlw

Have told the post office that "resident & occupant" have moved to 1600 Pennsylvanian Ave., Washington D.C. but still get the junk. Maybe should sent to Harry Reid.

The 101st Airborne at the border!

I am a senior citizen and I despise junk mail. Some days that is all that is in the mail box. It goes directly into the recycling bin and then off to where ever it is they dispose of it. I recently heard that we sell it to other countries like China and it is a money maker for the U. S. I hope that is true because we certainly don't produce anything anymore. Oh, did I mention that Harry Reed is an idiot?

If government wasn't buying votes the tax burden would be a lot less. If the Constitution were actually being defended as all swore to uphold, the country would be more prosperous and people would not be so burdened with all the regulatory laws which cost us in efficiencies and creative solutions to all the problems. Did people really think they of rights could destroy the environment before mand became the highet evolved animal which has the right to destroy all competition?

Congressman Kent is out of his mind. I am 77 and have much better things to read than junk mail. H***, Playboy has more intellectually challenging articles than 99% of junk mail I receive!

Why doesn't the PO charge more for bulk mail as well as stamps(maybe they try)to raise their bottom line? What I really don't understand is that when the PO comes up with a plan to keep solvent,closing some branches and distribution centers,etc. the govn't steps in and says NO! you can't do that!And,as usual,with no alternative plan. So, I guess, our Reps in D.C. think that businesses can work at a loss forever. I'm confused.

WE DISPISE JUNK MAIL AND THE RESOURCES IT WASTES, BOTH MATERIAL AND HUMAN. CUT THE POSTAL SERVICE TO 5 DAYS MAX & REDUCE BENEFITS.......IT IS A TERRIBLYINEFFICIENT DEPARTMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT, AREN"T THEY ALL?

I am a senior, and I dispise junk mail....and junk e-mail. I hope this reply will not end up adding to that.

It is fairly simple. The tax burden is too high (for those of us who actually pay). What should reform look like?: Stop spending money you don't have. Simplify the tax code (like make it about 10 pages instead of the monstrosity it is). And, last but not least, TAX CUTS DO NOT HAVE TO BE PAID FOR!!! That's ridiculous! It just means that spending will NEVER decrease. Liberals just don't get it.

I hate it! There should be no cheap rates for bulk mail! I send any forms that are asked to be filled out blank, so they have to pay the return postage for nothing.

Not only do I detest receiving all this junk mail which are multiple mailings I also detest the volume of emails which too are multiple transmissions. We have to empty our waste basket almost daily for the amount of junk mail that is received. The time, effort, paper and postage that is consumed is unbelievable.

We have a small Post Office with 200 PO boxes. The Postmaster has two large trash cans in the lobby just for junk mail and empties them daily. Of course first class mail rates go up but not the junk mail which nobody wants.

"love getting junk mail"For fuel? Price is right and you can't beat the reliable, convenient delivery.And there was some time ago a movement to do just that - get a lot of junk mail an burn it in your heating stove.Unlike junk email, which serves no ecologically sound purpose.

I don't object to GETTING e-mail. I object to the senders paying a 1 cent per ounce fee. I pay 45 cents per ounce. I may not deduct the cost from my income tax while the sender's of junk mail charge it to "advertising" and expense it. And someone in Obama's administration talks about FAIRNESS. Also I am one of those seniors-I'm 83.

I am a senior citizen and I detest getting junk mail. It immediately goes in the trash upon receipt. I get practically NO mail because I do all of my banking online. Harry Reid does not know what he is talking about and you can't believe a thing he says.

I worked for the Post Office for a while. And what harry reid said is essentiially true. I had a "city delivery" route which meant a walking delivery route, house to house. The area i was assigned to had a significany percentage of retirees, many of whom would sit on their porch when the weather was nice. As I would be making my deliveries many would complain about "junk mail" as I would be making my deliveries. However if they were out and saw me pass their residence by without any piece of mail for them they would almost chase me down the street asking if maybe I had missed any pieces of mail in my bag for them. I came to realize that the so-called junk mail was important to them even as they would complain as if it were an affirmation that someone somewhere cared that they were alive and deemed them important enough to send mail to. Incidentally we were not allowed to use the nomenclature, "junk mail", we were instructed to call it "bulk business mail".

Repeal the income tax amendment. No income tax. A flat 10 percent VAT. Balanced budget amendment. No death tax. Watch out for low flying hogs.

On my computer it's called spam. For the phone we have the do not call list. Junk mail is land fill filler.

I suppose that if I had to choose between reading junk mail versus listening to Harry Reid this 72 year old would opt for the mail junk over the elected junk

I am 67 years old. I think that qualifies me as a "senior". After I come back from the mailbox I am fortunate that I must pass by my recycle bin. At least 90o% of the mail I have just retrieved goes right into the recycle bin. That is because 90% is "junk" mail. That is what I think of "junk" mail. Harry Reid is one of the most foolish people to ever sit in a Senate seat.

Re Anders Behring Breivik: The next Republican president should award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom using the same words the Nobel Peace Prize Committee used for Obama.

Harry Reid needs to get a life... Talk about out of touch!!!!

I believe we should receive MORE "junk" mail, BUT only from conservative groups so that it will create more jobs, and keep the Post Offices open Mon-Sat. This will also counter attack the liberal media biases of the lamestream media."You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free". --The Holy Bible

How can I have my junk mail sent to Harry Reid ?

No, i don't like junk mail. If your life is so barren that you look forward to getting junk mail, your problems are much deeper than you thought.

How about a 2% or 3% on all personal and corporate income with NO deductions for starters. That way everyone pays something in taxes and can claim ownership in this government of ours. Then you can have a progressive tax after that but cut out the deductions known as loopholes. Tax corporations an extra penalty for taking jobs off shore and make the penalty BIG.

ALL immigration should cease UNTIL the unemployed who are truly looking for a job have received one. We have thousands of skilled people looking for jobs and can't find any, but we all allow foreigner to be able to come to this country and take the jobs that Americans should be employed at. What kind of society is this that will not take care of it's own citizens above and beyond the care of foregners? Americans FIRST, LEGAL immigrants next, and illegal immigrants deported.

Any tax reform that does not end up with a personal exemption that is the same for everyone and a tax rate from that point on that is the same for every dollar of income no matter its source or amount and without regard to how it is spent is unfair to everyone except tax lawyers and IRS employees. When will Congress - who alone has the authority to write tax law under the constitution - take this bold step and save the taxpayer the cost of the huge IRS bureaucracy it takes to administer our current mish-mash of tax laws?

Take a page out of Harry Truman's and Dwight Eisenhower's book. Between them, they deported over ten million illegals to make room for the returning GI's to find work from WWII and Korea. All this blather about not being able to deport so many is pure unfounded rhetoric. History proves it. Libs don't like history. Stop all the handouts to illegals. Demand employers use E-Verify. Concerning the children of those miscreants who broke our law to come here, they can go back with their parents and get in line the same as legal immigrants do. Guest worker programs are a copout and no long term solution. Of course the borders must be closed,tight. If necessary, use the military. As for the cartels, get with the Mexican government and do what is necessary to wipe them out. Can all this be accomplished? Of course. All that is needed, and in short supply, is intestinal fortitude on the part of our elected officials.

Tax reform should begin with the repeal of the sixteeenth amendment as part of the enactment of the Fair Tax act. That should be followed by the repeal of the seventeenth amendment just because it needs to be done.Unfortunately real tax reform is unlikely except on a temporary basis like the Reagan two tier plan that has since become the monstrosity that we face today. Even at that, there is much to recommend a truly flat income tax particularly if business income taxes were discontinued.A flat tax with no deliberate loopholes would put an end to the confusion surrounding the fairness issue while the elimination of business income taxes would have two likely effects: long term price reductions for goods and services and more capital available for expansion which means jobs.But no, I fear we're asking too much of our congress when we expect rational patriotism. They are after all America's most well known criminal conspiracy.

How will I celebrate Earth Day? By leaving my outside lights on for the entire 24 hour period.

Please stop refering to the Bush tax cuts -- they expired in 2010. It is Obama's tax cuts that will expire at the end of this year. That includes both reductions in income tax and the payroll tax holiday.Bush is not responsible for the changes to the tax code that were instituted in 2010, and I wish people would stop talking like he did.Until we start talking about the Obama Tax Plan (which includes his 2010 income tax and payroll tax cuts), the Obama economy, and the Obama deficits and debt, we will never be able hold him responsible for anything.

Personally, I know that the tax system is broken. We have far too many IRS agents, far too many tax rules, far too many loop holes for those in the know and too much money being spent along with those taxes. To rectify the problem I have to side with those who would call for a flat tax. I really don't care if it is 10%, 15% or something a slight bit higher. The bottom line is that EVERYONE

JUNK MAIL IS THE PROBLEM,THE POSTAL SERVICE PUTTING IN MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN NEW EQUIPMENT TO HANDLE A MOUNTAIN OF JUNK MAIL NO BODY WANTS IN THEIR MAIL BOX IN THE FIRST PLACE. WITH EXCEPTION OF HARRY REID WHO LOVES JUNK MAIL. PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO ARE DISABLED AND WE HAVE TO WALK SOMETIMES A LONG DISTANCE TO GET OUR MAIL AND WE FIND A TON OF UN-WANTED JUNK MAIL IN OUT BOX, THAT HAS TO BE DISPOSED OF IN OUR GARBAGE, FILLING UP YET ANOTHER LAND FILL WITH UN-WANTED JUNK MAIL. WHEN WILL THESE CRACK-POT POLITICIANS EVER GET THE MESSAGE....GET RID OF JUNK MAIL, I DO NOT WANT IT IN MY BOX, DO I HAVE A CHOICE, APPARENTLY NOT. BUT HOW ELSE WOULD POLITICIANS SPREAD THEIR JUNK MAIL ON US, OF COURSE THROUGH THE U.S.POST OFFICE., IF JUNK MAILERS HAD TO PAY THE "FIRST CLASS" POSTAL RATE THEN THAT WOULD STOP A LOT OF JUNK MAIL, AND WOULD HELP BETTER TO PAY THE UP-KEEP OF THE FAILING POST OFFICES ACROSS THE NATION. GET RID OF JUNK MAIL, OR AT LEAST LET ME OPT-OUT OF RECEIVING UN-WANTED JUNK MAIL. AGAIN DO I HAVE A CHOICE APPARENTLY NOT.Dean Cox.................

I was a Vietnam volunteer during the last year of the war. I wondered then and now why at that point we were there. I really wonder why we are in Afghanistan to keep one group of Islamic hate Americans in power vs another group. Perhaps the editor can tell us why supporting the present regime helps America or the poeple still left there when we leave, do you really think either side likes us or wants us there? How does importing Afghans into the US help us? just import Iranians.

Taxes should be made much simpler. Nobody under age 16 pays taxes. Every taxpayer pays 10% of his gross income to pay for social security and medicare(no ceiling). Every tax payer gets a $25,000 exemption from gross income for income tax purposes. Each taxpayer pays 10% on the rest of his gross income (no adjustments allowed) on the first $75,000 of taxable income and 30% on the rest. Along with this I would like to legislation requiring the IRS to pay the first 10% of monies collected or 10% of the national debt (whichever is less) toward the principle of the national debt.

Flat tax yes, except on items needed for our basic existence such as food, clothing, heating fuel (natural and manufactured gas, oil, electricity and items to produce and use those fuels), cleaning products, bedding products, and all services. And, two thoughts ---- 1) Government of, by and for the legal citizens (and those working to become citizens legally), and, Reading the Consttution as it was originally written (amendable but not changeable).

Federal laws on the books would be enforced.Undocumented aliens would be turned back at the borders by the combined forces of the Border Patrol and state and local police.So called "sanctuary" cities would lose access to federal funding until such time as they chose to enforce immigration laws.A temporary guest labor visa would be issued to any alien who applied and was accepted for specific projects of short duration. Temporary labor agencies might be used to select and hire guest workers with visa elegibility as a key factor.English would be declared as the national language and used exclusively in government publications and forms.Temporary visas would be offered to any educated or skilled alien who expressed their desire to pursue American citizenship.

I intend to celebrate Earth Day as I always do by grilling some ribs and burning a picture of Lenin.Mazeltov

Do I love junk mail? Do I love how much more my weekly garbage weighs when I drag it out to the street?I'm sure Harry Reid knows that we, the people who send first-class letters, are subsidizing that crapola. Oh, and we the taxpayers are picking up some of the tab too, just so the U.S. Snail can go deeper into irrelevance.Go back to Searchlight, Harry.

I love junk mail as it funds my pension.

The law that needs to be passed is this:"If Congress is unable to pass and manage a balanced budget then they have NO authority to pass laws, impose taxes or collect stated taxes."Maybe this should be the next amendment to be passed?

I will celebrate earth day by taking my Bic lighter and melting an ice cube.

I love junk mail. In fact, I don't get enough. I suppose that explains my ongoing occasional visits to Drudge.Seriously, it seems to be impossible to get off the mailing lists. I have tried. Junk mail is very annoying, and I'm not even talking about all the wasted paper (the horror!). I also shred or burn every piece of paper which includes any personal details, mainly credit offers. I've used all the means they give to get off the lists, but to no apparent avail. I don't even look at the others at all. Those (flyers, random junk from AARP, etc.) don't even make it into the house.It's all about propping up the US Postal Service. And I vote we 'streamline' that in total.

Not me, I do not like junk mail and I am a disable veteran senior citizen. It does help the land fills buy adding untold tons of trash to them. Also ads job security to the Garbage men, uh, excuse me, the sanitation engineers whose jobs depend on trash. As for our borders, especially our southern border. Obuma should be enforcing Federal immigration laws instead of suing Arizona for doing it. Obuma as POTUS proof beyond all doubt that 67 million American voters are stupid!

I couldn't do without junk mail. You see, I depend upon wood heating for my home. It would be much more difficult to get my fireplace going without junk mail. And I am doing my part to return that carbon to the atmosphere so that the forests can breathe again.

How about if EVERYONE paid their fair share? Why should 48% of the population pay nothing in federal income tax when they also use many of the services the rest of us (52%)use. I'm tired of paying and letting the "48percenters" get a free ride!

Most junk mail is annoying, but it helps me keep up my basketball skills during practice season. ("There is no off-season. There is game season and there is practice season.") I can sail a credit card offer into the recycling box from ten feet out.

I cannot understand or believe how ignorant all, or at most, all, of the above comment providers are. First of all, the Constitution at Article 1, Section 8 states that the federal government can tax to pay the debt. A simple discernment can deduce that since not entity is even mentioned, then is certainly stands to reason that only an entity that is under the JURISDICTION of the federal government can be taxed. So, who can be determined to be 'one required' to file tax returns? Simple. If an entity has contracted with the federal government then that entity 'may' be under federal jurisdiction. Therefore, it may be possible that an entity that is involved with interstate commerce may be 'one required'.The framers of the income tax, the so-called Sixteenth Amendment clearly stated in the Congressional REcord, many times, that the income tax was to be the extension of the Corporation Tax Act of 1909, and it was a tax upon those entities other than corporations that were "doing business". The Eisner court, 252 US 189, 1920, clearly stated that the income MUST be derived from profit. The Internal Revenue Code states that the income must be effectively-connected to a taxable event, therefore, since labor earnings are inviolable, then it further stands to reason that unless you are "doing business" for a 'gain or profit' that can be effectively-connected to a taxable event, you are not 'one required' and should you get your head out of the 'spot' where it has been buried for some time, you should quit submitting those non-applicable tax returns!

The word not in the third line above should have been no, meaning no entity!

If there were no "junk mail" nor solicitations for money, my mailbox would be empty 90% of the time. However, I could live with that without any problems or cares.

FLAT TAX. EVERYONE, including all corporations, all religious organizations, all currently tax exempt organizations - EVERYONE pays a TEN PERCENT tax bill every year. No exceptions.

Enforce the laws currently on the books. Currently, officers have been ORDERED to not enforce our laws because of a "policy" within DHS. I wonder what would happen if all these officers and agents were to enforce the laws anyways? Would they all be fired for "doing their jobs"? I think not.

"How will you celebrate Earth Day?"Build a big charcoal fire and cook large quantities of meat while consuming adult beverages.

no to junk mail. it's a waste of resources, natural and human.

It just keeps coming day after day. I take it from the mail box to the recycle pile with no stops in between. Enough is enough, junk maik, junk phone calls. Enough already.

Cut - Cap - Balance

The one thing that bother me most of all about "fair Share" is: WHO decides what my fair share is? I consider myself taxed enough already and if the government can't live within its' means on that money, it surely won't do any better on the rest of my money.

I like getting junk mail almost as much as I like hitting my thumb with a hammer.

The basic flaw in liberal thinking can be illustrated by how liberals and progressives look at American cities. Conservatives see the "shining ciy on the hill" with skyscrapers and factories privately owned and raising the lower and middle classes. Liberals see the ghettoes only, and believe our economic system CREATED the ghettoes. Thus, the private economy must be taxed heavily enough so that the benevolent government can raise these people out of poverty. Liberals don't realize that their policies will lead inexorably to an amorphous society-wide ghetto. Those are the "facts" borne out by the USSR, Cuba, North Korea, East Germany, etc., etc.

Much of junk mail has applications and other offers that can be used in Identity theft. Junk mail is a pain and dangerous. As a senior citizen I DO NOT enjoy junk mail.

What I despise more than receiving junk mail, is that it is heavily subsidized.

First off, I hate junk mail, its a total waste of everyone's time and effort and the effectiveness is dubious. Second the government should contract with UPS or FedEx who do a better job at less cost and get out of the mail business.

We'll celebrate Earth Day with a huge BBQ, lots of shooting guns and adding to the land fill with garbage.

"Too Big To Fail" is nothing more than "socialized" banking. Credit to small businesses will be very difficult to obtain, if not impossible. The "Big Five" Banks have decreased their lending to small businesses as a percentage of their (Banks) total asset base. Another "bail out" of banks is just around the corner.

I'll celebrate earth day by reminding my customers how great Thomas Midgely was- he invented chloroflourocarbons and leaded gasoline.Pretty useful inventions considering engine technology and air conditioning/refrigeration (which made possible the internet, personal computers, health care, better medicines, the smart power grid, most of the top ten cities for growth, skyscrapers, the summer blockbuster, the wide circulation of newspapers and more were/are dependent on)

Since it's Sunday, I'll be celebrating Earth Day by worshipping the Creator of heaven and earth.

RE: MCNice made a interesting observation. Let's do this, have the Supreme Court decide on taxes and the validity of the tax code.Like Obama, is he eligible to be president argument, this mostly conservative court will say, GO FOR IT. (Taxes)I like what the postal worker said. I am not a postal worker but my daughter in law in the VP of the local union. All they want is a fair shake. If this is UN-americian then so be it. She encourages postal workers to talk tot he elderly, they look forward to it.We have to look beyond junk mail and numbers and see what good they do for the community. Example, one of her workers see the same person everyday. One day she didn't. She checked on her and in doing so saved her life.

My wife and I will not be celebrating earth day. We will be going to church and worshiping God and our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ. We do worship the earth.Richard RyanLamar,Missouri

please vote for anyone but the dear leader OBAMA this november. weneed to get rid of his socialist policies and institute a flat tax wher everyone pays their fair share.

Harry Reid is as stupid as he looks!

In contrast to Reid's love of junk mail, I want to go to the court house and change my name to "occupant" so I can start getting some personal mail again.

I love junk mail,it's a way to meet people that live near you. Like most of the people we get to know them by giving them their mail that ends up my mail box or they are giving me my mail that went to their mail box. It's easier to sort junk email yourself and it save trees.

I had missed things before but I heard when we can't use the "N" word and some other words have been removed from use BUT when did illegal become legal. All defense have to do now is say that what their client did was illegal and it's ok.

Mr. Reid should volunteer himself with useful work like the rest of us seniors. FQAC, NJ

I am a senior who does not like to get junk mail. I would like to see a law similar to the no call law that would allow we who receive unsolicited junk mail to report any one who sent out such mail. This includes any emails sent to me in reply to this comment.

I think that ws chould go with a flat tax of 10% - no loopholes, no deductions, 10% for everyone from guys like Bill Gates to the kids flipping hamburgers at McDonald's. I think that I pay too much in taxes, especially when the government is using my money to bail out companies like GM.No company is too big to fail - if they are losing market share and money, obviously the management needs to look more closely at their company and make the necessary changes.

Each day the mail is delivered at about 11:45 AM. My mailbox is about 125 yards from my home. I bought a special set of starting blocks used in track to get the fastest start possible to sprint to the mailbox mainly to check out my junk mail.(pant,pant)Harry the wimp is such a jerk- can't believe he was re-elected.

"Fairness" means "equal". To that end, a flat tax for ALL would be 'fair'. I once asked someone about the flat tax and if she supported it. I prefaced it with the following example: If I buy a $20000 car, I pay (say) 8% in taxes or $1600. If 'you' buy a $10000 car and pay 8% in taxes that is $800. Is this fair? The answer was "yes". Then, I asked, if I make $20000 a year and you make $10000 a year, we should pay the same tax rate?The answer "no". I asked 'why not?'.. "YOU MAKE MORE AND SHOULD PAY MORE". I could not change her mind.Nothing has changed today and this exchange happened over 20 years ago.

I am a senior and detest junk mail! I pay rent for my P.O.Box and it gets so crammed my real mail is squashed and it is a pain to dig it out and then sort it! To me it is a waste of every ones time and not to mention paper and postage! I see piles of it in the trash bin and shake my head at the stupidity of the wastefulness.

My fmaily and I plan on celebrating Earth day by cooking steaks on a charcoal grill. We will smoke the steaks in hickory chips. We will also turn on every electrical item in our house for one hour.

Immigration Reform:

Sorry. To continue:1. Anyone here ILLEGALLY will be deported. If they have spouses or children that are citizens, they can apply for readmittance if they have not been convicted of any other crime and have a bona fide job offer or other means of supporting themselves and WAIT IN LINE with everyone else who have already applied to come in legally.2. A guest worker program so employers can get the workers they need (seasonally) on a temporary, contractual basis. A limited (12 to 18 month) work permit will be issued and the individual will have to leave the U.S. for at least 6 months before being allowed to engage in another contract. The worker will only be allowed to work in the prescribed job/industry he contracted for. 50 percent of wages will be withheld and deposited in a bank in the worker's home country, to be released only upon completion of the contract or the worker's voluntary or involuntary exit from the U.S.3. Work visas will be issued based on the needs of the U.S. economy, with preferences for workers in fields where enough U.S. citizens cannot be found to do those jobs. Employers will be required to prove that they made concientious efforts to find qualified U.S. workers before being allowed to hire foreign workers.4. All new hires in ALL jobs anywhere will have the employer REQIRED to VERIFY the right of the worker to work legally in the U.S. within 30 days of beginning work. If such verification is not made, the worker will be terminated from employment until such verification is completed. If verification is unable to be made, the worker's application will be considered fraudulent and the applicant subject to prosecution. If significant numbers of fraudulent or unverifiable hires are made, the employer will be flagged and also subject to investigation/prosecution for hiring illegal workers.That should be a good start...

We should send all our "junk mail" to Harry Reid being he thinks so highly of it.

And, of course, "sanctuary" cities and counties would, by virtue of ignoring or actively impeding federal immigration laws would be denied ANY AND ALL federal monies for ANY reason or purpose within their jurisdictions. States refusing to cooperate with federal immigration laws or legislating statutes or policies that would interfere with such laws would be penalized by reduction of federal funding in areas affected substantially by illegal immigration, e.g., housing, education, law enforcement, prisons, etc.

No, we hate junk mail. 99% of our daily mail delivery goes straight into the recycling bin! The Post Office needs to be trimmed down extensively and the sooner the better.

10% flat tax on all income for everyone. No deductions of any kind. No income credits of any kind. Everyone pays the same and the politicians cut back spending to reflect the new system. Additional funds for war to be approved only after votes in congress.

Paul Ryan's "Path for Prosperity". It is the only "Fair" way to distribute the burden.

I don't understand why the Republicans and certainly conservatives aren't banging a drum and noting that Obama and his ilk do not have to take all of their deductions. Nothing is keeping them from sending more of their money to the government to waste. Why not lead by example and give more of their money to the government? This includes Warren Buffett who should just let the government keep his $1 Billion he is contesting. If you are truly worried about rich folks getting away with lower rates, just give the government more your money Warren.

I am a senior citizen (age 76) and I do not like getting "junk mail". If companies want to send out advertising, they should pay the same rate as individuals do (minus a small discount for volume). Harry Reid is a senior and his "junk mail" is probably from his constituents asking him to retire. In one week it will have been three years that he has not allowed a budget to be passed. This is the senate's constitutional requirement. I know that Harry has the Nevada unions "in his pocket" but isn't there anyone else in Nevada with half a brain that will vote this man out? Harry and Barrack are spending our children's and grandchildren's future.

Taxes! For what are they used! Supposedly, for the benefit of the taxpayer! That is highly questionable, but for sake of argument let's say that is true!Two people have the same tax rate. One's tax burden is $5,000. The other' tax burden is $50,000. Which should get more benefits from the government? Which usually does? Is there fairness and equality here?

Can someone help me out here? I may be mixing apples and oranges. Inanimate objects don't pay taxes; people pay taxes. The government taxes its citizens, and citizens have the right to vote. If the government can tax corporations, why is the left upset that corporations can "vote", i.e. give to political parties? I'm not following the left's angst at corporations now being allowed to contribute to political parties and/or candidates. What am I missing here?

"This Sunday is Earth Day, a.k.a. Vladimir Lenin's birthday." Well, yes, but that's probably a coincidence. April 22nd is also the birthday of J. Sterling Morton; Governor of the Territory of Nebraska in the 1850s, Secretary of Agriculture for Grover Cleveland, and the founder of Arbor Day. He self-identified as a Bourbon Democrat, and actually was editor of a Magazine called "The conservative". I suspect he would roll over in the grave at the way Arbor Day has been hijacked by Earth Day...

"This Sunday is Earth Day, a.k.a. Vladimir Lenin's birthday." Well, yes, but that's probably a coincidence. April 22nd is also the birthday of J. Sterling Morton; Governor of the Territory of Nebraska in the 1850s, Secretary of Agriculture for Grover Cleveland, and the founder of Arbor Day. He self-identified as a Bourbon Democrat, and actually was editor of a Magazine called "The conservative". I suspect he would roll over in the grave at the way Arbor Day has been hijacked by Earth Day...

I DO NOT MIND PAYING MY 'FAIR SHARE' OF TAXES, BUT THE CLASS WARFARE IF PITTING THE 99% AGAINST THE 1% IS JUST PLAIN HYPE. THERE ARE PLENTY OF PEOPLE IN THE USA WHO MAKE OVER $200,000 THAT ARE NOT RICH BY ANY MEANS. THEY ARE BUSINESS OWNERS WHO ARE STRUGGLING JUST TO MAKE IT. CLASS WARFARE IS CHICAGO STYLE POLITICS THAT IS INTENDED TO DIVIDE AND CONQUER. HOPEFULLY, THE MAINSTREAM AMERICANS WILL SEE THRU THIS POLICY AND GET THIS SOCIALIST OUT OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM ALONG WITH 'ALL' OF HIS CRONIES.

I HATE GETTING JUNK MAIL....and I am a senior. Enough said.

"The Red Card Solution" a free-market answer to illegal immigration and border security issues. Helen Krieble presents a compelling argument on this free-market driven, privately funded, government-sanctioned, incentive-based program that is NOT an amnesty plan. Documentary participants range from Rep Mike Pence, Steve Moore of Wall Street Journal, Matt Kibbe of Freedom Works, Louis Cores of Esperanza, and Dr James Carafano of Heritage Foundation. For short summary, white paper, and 15 min documentary visit www.RedCardSolution.com At the least take a few moments to read her interview with Grove City College Vision & Values Center, a response to Ann Coulter, at http://tinyurl.com/6tpoy5w

Watch out for election year voter fraud. Liberals, politicians and their voters alike, are notorious for "stuffing" the ballot boxes. It is part of their twisted , pathological mentality to win at any cost. Honor and honesty is not a word in liberal vocabulary. We need to police the polling stations nation wide like the black scum panthers did on Philly in 2008! Stay vigilant of those on the tax hangout dole cheating, and we can have a fair election for the first time is once 2008.

Taxes should be cut not raised. Any idot knows that id you raise taxes now the job market will get worse.With the cost of everything going up because of the price of fuel, everything will go up more because the people who have to pay those taxes will just tack it on to the price of their product. Thus causing it to go higher. More taxes tells our Government to spend more and we don't want government to do that do we.

Harry Reid is as full of crap as a Christmas Turkey.

The Fair Tax looks better and better. The 50% that don't pay any tax should just shut up and be happy that they are currently in the gray area and be quite. The 46% that pay the majority of taxes should support the Fair Tax and push to get the monetary power out of the house and senate. God Bless America!David White...Greensboro NC!!!

I do not like getting junk mail. It is a waste of my time.

I am a senior and I HATE junk mail. I have always felt that junk mail should be something you can either choose to receive or refuse. That way the carrier would not have to carry so much extra bulk when most of the people like me take it straight to the trash. Another way the stores or advertisers could get their message out would be to hire high school kids or scouts from each area or school district to hand deliver their flyers or messages. It would be a good entrance position for a young teen as well as take the burden off the postal workers.Just an idea......PS Love my Patriot Post - Keep up the wonderful work!

I hate junk mail. It is a waste of my time and valuable natural resources. I do not even open it as it goes in the nearest trash receptacle.

I plan to cut down a tree so it will be ready for next fall's firewood.

Tax reform? In a few words, the Federal Income Tax should be nine percent on GROSS income, EVERYONE should pay that rate and NO "credits" or "deductions" for anyone or any reason. NO ONE would not pay this tax under any conditions. This includes all forms of business regardless of where the money is made. Can you read this "GE"? NINETEEN BILLION is total sales(source is Fox News) and NOT one red cent in income tax!! It is an outrage that fully ONE HALF of all wage earners in the US PAY NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX!! This is like two more adults living in my home andnot paying their way! Has the time come for all Patriots to REVOKE their consent to be governed by the current elected and appointed officials of the Federal government and start anew?

1. The Fair Tax does away with the IRS completely so it is "fairer" than the Flat Tax.2. To get our Representatives to truly represent us:CrustyOldGeezer, a blogger who wrote this, an EXCELLENT IDEA.The technology exists to provide for EVERY elected official to work from their home districts and seldom, if ever, need to travel to DC for anything other than purely ceremonial reasons.Each representative and senator would have local offices where CONSTITUENTS could sit in the outer offices and observe exactly whom visited with THEIR representative and for what purposes.There would be LIMITED access for lobbyists and other special interest groups.There would be no lavishly extravagant parties and lifestyle to turn the heads of OUR elected representatives.Each office would have mini theaters where constituents could sit and watch the teleconferencing of committee meetings and other 'floor' debates and discussions.YOUR representative could be HELD ACCOUNTABLE immediately for poor behavior in office.His/her ride to work every morning could be greeted with endless signs along the route with messages of their current political chances of being re-elected to their second, and last, term.

No one has all the answers to the budget problem so I think before you can come up with a tax rule you have to decide on the way and amount to spend it. A budget has never been followed as far as I can remember and no one in the houses have come to terms with it because there is too much political payments of tax dollars going to solve political issues. The American Government has always used the Dollar to solve it's issues and would try to buy it's way out of trouble, just look at the wars. First let's figure and agree on the size of Government and political favors before we make a fool out of ourselves allowing every one in the world to look at Democracy in motion, and see blunder instead. Lets first keep our promises to care for our own before we try to FIX the world let's fix it here first. Then let's admit all this trouble is because of oil and tackle it by solving that issue and how we have to pay for it. No more borrowing would be a good start. We don't need employees from other countries because they are yes men. Who needs to be reminded that not working is shameful unless you are too old or ill. Allow private sector companies to be started that employ people fixing every thing not hiring foreign companies to do it. I'm just getting started. Look at Alaska how they fixed things for a while. Let's admit who is in charge, not hide it behind false ads and phony rhetoric. If the real leaders had their way they would take all your money, 100% tax. The word here is unsustainable politics and solutions are not going to work, DA! The problem with politics is that every problem does not have to be solved politically. Solutions are thrown out because they don't make anyone famous or don't benefit a party. Why? On and on and on, you see? OH well, let's just keep doing the same thing.

What should tax reform look like? I would love to see a low tax (like 7%) on productivity (i.e., income), and a high tax on unproductivity. No more nonsensical subsidizing things that aren't wanted, or paying farmers not to grow anything. If you have a building or vehicle that is not being used more than 75% of the year either as a residence, profitably or for a qualifying nonprofit service, that's what should be taxed highly. Or a field that isn't being used to grow things people will buy or pump oil or anything useful like that. Imagine the economic growth that would spur! (If the regulations aren't so tight as to squelch people's attempt to be profitable.)It would encourage people to start profitable businesses, or, if they can't do that, lease it to other businesses, or let a charity use it for free and thus qualify for an exemption. Maybe, if the government could use the resource in question, certain exemptions could allow the government to lease it for "free," thus saving money while eliminating that tax burden to the owner. Other exemptions would need to be made to be sure not to create a crippling situation, e.g., let owners have one year in seven free, and able to apply for an extension for disasters and the like. Am I too idealistic? This would be more complicated than the flat tax that is popular among commenters, but surely no more complicated than the current tax code!

"Seniors love junk mail?" that was the question for this segment. If the only thing I had to look forward to was junk mail to make my day I'd really be screwed!

I try to get junk mail stopped every chance I get but if ole' Harry thinks it's so great may I suggest that everyone redirect their junk mail to good ole' Harry, I think he'll understand.

Two words: Flat Tax. No one in this country should be exempt from paying "their fair share." I'm a big fan of Herman Cain and would support his tax plan. It's simple, it's easy to understand, and it's "fair." (Three reasons why the libs hate it.)And in regard to junk mail, I agree with Mr. Windler, let's all redirect all the catalogs, surveys, and credit card offers to good ole Harry!! I'd pay .52 to do that!

Di,The problem with the Red Card solution is that it has as it's premise that Americans don't want to do the work that illegals do. That's not accurate or fair to most Americans. What they don't want to do is the work that illegals do at the pay rate that illegals accept because it is better than they would get in their homelands and because they can't complain to anyone because of their illegal status.What needs to be done?1. Stop hiring illegals. There is a federal program that allows employers to check on the status of an immigrant quickly and with little effort on-line.2. Enforce the laws on the books that penalizes employers who knowingly hire illegals.3. Pay a reasonable salary to citizens for a days labor.4. Stop paying lip service to the illegals who are here and begin to deport them. When one comes into this country illegally that initial act should ban them from citizenship for life.5. While a lot of illegals are arrested and detained, a very small minority are actually being deported at this time. If you are here illegally and are detained, ship them out. If they come back, arrest them and give them 20 years.6. All of the September 11 hijackers came to this country legally but overstayed their legal permits. ICE needs to do a better job of tracking and locating those who have overstayed their legal temporary permits.Do you think that maybe 100 weeks of unemployment is affecting this issue? I'm willing to bet my next paycheck on it.

I RECIEVE ANYWHERE FROM 5 TO AS MUCH AS 16 PIECESOF "JUNK" MAIL EACH DAY. JUNK IS NOT AN APPROPRIATETERM SINCE IT IS USUALLY NOT JUNK TO THE SENDER.HOWEVER, THE GREATEST PERCENTAGE OF IT IS A REQUESTFOR A MONETARY DONATION. MUCH OF IT CONTAINS A COMPLEMENTARY "GIFT" WHICH I DO NOT NEED.IT WOULD HELP IF THESE ORGANIZATIONS WERE REQUIRED TO PAY THE FULL POSTAL RATES WHICH I PAY.

Taxes well what great big hole in the ground that is. It seams to me that as a small biz owner, I pay for everything. The one that realy gets me is FUTA and his sister SUTA, just to pay 8,500.00 per person this year because we don't filter who recieves these benifits, everyone walking around living on the street some how became eligable. So florida borrowed money to pay out so now all biz owners get a increase in taxes........... more... more more JUST SAYING.....MORE

Yeah...and toothaches, and hangnails, and higher taxes, and...

My tax burden is always unknown until the final calculations are done due to the complexity if the income tax system. Impossible to plan for or control.HR 25 the FairTax Act eliminates the nonsense and puts in it's place a Constitutional tax that puts the people back in control of what they pay and when. It explodes the private sector of our economy and is a good first step to reversing the economic slide we are in. Anyone who opposes it doesn't understand it or they he a vested interest in the current system. It is freedom for the people and removes a significant source of graft and corruption from the public sector.If you believe in essential liberty you must educate yourself to the power of this basic reform at www.fairtax.org. Do not believe anything you see or hear in the MSM. Read it for yourself and then make up your mind.That is your obligation as a citizen.

Dingy Harry has said so many lunatic things it's hard to believe anyone would pay attention to his assertion that seniors enjoy getting junk mail. I believe that the dim bulb from Searchlight, Nevada has let his cheese slide off his cracker altogether.

Every working person, should pay some income tax. Ideally, I like the flat tax. The burden of tax is now too narrow.