> What does it mean for the US, when we can't keep up with our demand to import qualified employees?
Fix our educational system and train our own citizens? Seems pretty straightforward.
Fix our educational system and train our own citizens? Seems pretty straightforward.
A simplified tax code, where it's still progressive, i.e. tiered, but no deductions would get rid of the feeling that we're paying more than our fair share because there would be fewer ways for people to game the system. It would also potentially recuperate the waste on the tax preparation economy.
And for people who don't think taxes/money is the solution to the education issues in the US, look at the difference between California's performance before prop 13 and after prop 13 passed. Prop 13 capped the amount that taxes could be raised on property for both individuals AND corporations, strangling the educational systems main revenue stream.
I disagree quite a bit on taxation. But, what I will say is that by making taxes a mandatory (and often-argued about thing), we have put ourselves in a position where people will probably never come to see that with no "money", nothing that they want will get done/bought.