Received a Bill for State Tax on An Amp Bought in Canada Last Year

And so far, not one radical leftist has called me a Nazi. I feel vindicated. 

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  "And, what's your solution to homelessness in this country?"

1.  For the mentally ill who cannot fend for themselves, reopen the mental hospitals that were closed due to ACLU lawsuits so they can get proper treatment and medication to at least lead a life without seeing and hearing demons. Hot showers and three good meals a day would be mandatory. 

2.  For the addicted, mandatory rehab programs, privately run for a profit. The better the outcomes, the more the rewards.

3.  For those who have been priced out of California homeownership, bus them to Pennslyvania. Harsh winters, I know, but a nice house is around $150,000. Rent is cheap too ... especially around January or February.

For the rest who just love living on sandy beaches for free, constructing tent cities in the Mojave Desert would be a good choice. Air-conditioning and rabbit stew provided, of course. 

And your solutions are what, exactly ... besides raising the minimum wage, providing a "living wage, stimulus checks, or a monthly packet containing newly counterfeited money? 

Frank

Frank, 

All great and some, funny points except for #1. It was Reagan who started the ball rolling.
https://sites.psu.edu/psy533wheeler/2017/02/08/u01-ronald-reagan-and-the-federal-deinstitutionalization-of-mentally-ill-patients/comment-page-1/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4364434/

As for my take, establish a living wage, which would free up the taxes we pay in food services and housing assistance and stop subsidizing the employers who are making bank off of this racket.

Pay some form of child support/assistance to working families so they can afford decent child care since both parents need to work to make ends meet. Other countries have been doing this since, forever, and have the stats to back up the benefits from doing so. 

As for "printing" money, how come I heard no one bring that up with the last, unfunded, 2 trillion dollar tax giveaway to those that didn't need or warrant it? 

All the best,
Nonoise

@oregonpapa

And your solutions are what, exactly

Progressives have solutions. They just have no way to pay for it other than taking it from those that have some $$$. Then at some point, after they have the tax high enough to destroy incentives, businesses and the morale of the people, the govt confiscates everything just to pay the elites at the top. Marxism/Socialism/Collectivism/Communism promises a lot and gives little except destruction of everything it touches

Progressives have nothing. First of all there are no progressives. There are only Marxists, and other variations on communism. Progressive is the term they thought would work here in the US. But the same tired old ideas never will work, no matter whether called progressive or even liberal.  

These terms are all either specific to their classical definitions, or else useless. But by their classical definitions conservatives want to conserve the status quo, which at the time was a royal monarchy in Great Britain. Liberal literally means free, so the Founders were liberal. Today, those who still cling to the Constitution are called conservative because they seek to conserve that which the liberal Founders gave us.

I'm taking time to explain all this to expose the lie behind the word progressive. There is nothing progressive about it. You seek to regress back to an old discredited system where one elite group of technocrats holds power and wields it over all the rest of us common folk. 

Progressives have no solutions, unless you want to count the hundreds of millions of bodies and call it like they actually did, the final solution. But you want to delude yourself into thinking it is the conservatives who want this.

Nothing could be further from the truth. What are the conservative ideals, besides those enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution? Adam Smith's invisible hand. Mises hard money currency. A people who hold inalienable rights granted by Almighty God. Local government with almost no power beyond administering a legal system. Local government doesn't even provide police. That is the job of elected Sheriffs. Federal government has even fewer powers, primarily the conduct of national defense and trade among nations.

What is sad beyond words is how rare these once universally known concepts are today.