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This thread is to discuss ways to lower our expenses and/or prices collectively as a country.
I believe one of the easiest way to do so would be to reduce our energy costs. There are many natural alternatives to our current means of producing energy. They won't produce a huge profit, but they will lower everyone's expenses. I believe our taxes should stay the same so in that scenario it would be a net gain for American citizens.
Please no partisan banter. This is a non-partisan issue. All ideas welcome though Any topic is fair game on where we can lower our expenses and/or prices.
For starters, we can stop requiring businesses to provide health insurance. We can also remove double taxation for corporations and simplify the tax code. Leaner corporations can provide more competitive pricing.
This thread is to discuss ways to lower our expenses and/or prices collectively as a country.
I believe one of the easiest way to do so would be to reduce our energy costs. There are many natural alternatives to our current means of producing energy. They won't produce a huge profit, but they will lower everyone's expenses. I believe our taxes should stay the same so in that scenario it would be a net gain for American citizens.
Please no partisan banter. This is a non-partisan issue. All ideas welcome though Any topic is fair game on where we can lower our expenses and/or prices.
Alternative energy isn't cheap energy though. The era of cheap energy is over.
Costs aren't like revenues. The revenue situation conceptually can be improved by creating new sources of revenue from external sources, or by expropriating revenue from external entities. (New sources of revenue from internal sources simply moves the same money around more, causing new costs that balance out those new revenues.) The cost situation conceptually can be improved by shifting our costs to external sources, or eliminating costs external entities have shifted to us. (Again, shifting costs around within an entity has no impact on the aggregate.)
You specifically aimed your inquiry at the "country", and as such the only way to reduce costs would be to identify costs that are exclusively for the benefit of other nations, without any significant benefit coming back to our country in terms of the effects of good will, the wherewithal to protect American interests abroad in the practice of expropriating revenue from external entities, etc.
Striving for energy independence is perhaps the only significant mechanism for doing that at this time. Our nation is fortunate enough to need practically nothing else from the rest of the world, having substantial agricultural and mineral wealth.
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Please no partisan banter.
If that was a serious concern, then this was the wrong forum to post your message in.
For starters, we can stop requiring businesses to provide health insurance. We can also remove double taxation for corporations and simplify the tax code. Leaner corporations can provide more competitive pricing.
A. Having healthy citizens is cheaper in the long run than having everyone uninsured.
B. Corporations aren't double-taxed. They already enjoy the lowest effective tax-rates in 50 years.
Competition has always improved quality and lowered prices. Lower the costs for start up companies by removing the bloated regulations.
Which specific regulations? The ones that mandate that the firm won't dump its wastes into the air and water? The ones that say they won't harass their employees? If not these, which ones?
A. Having healthy citizens is cheaper in the long run than having everyone uninsured.
B. Corporations aren't double-taxed. They already enjoy the lowest effective tax-rates in 50 years.
Insurance coverage doesn't make people healthy in spite of what your black jesus tells you.
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Any topic is fair game on where we can lower our expenses and/or prices.
