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(4,835 posts)But you're right. My number one solution is to adjust the tax rates that we had in the '50's for inflation and go back to rebuilding and restoring our crumbling infrastructure. The MIC will be reigned in when that happens.
However, I also think that we have a generation of people who have no idea where food comes from and very often the food that we are provided, isn't safe. We need a revolution in sustainable, healthy agriculture. Otherwise, when the economy picks back up - our opportunity to educate the citizens about these things will may have passed, and more people will go back to the CO2 burning lifestyle of constructing suburbs and using up the worlds natural resources.
This isn't a problem that we are going to solve just by making the rich pay their fair share (and making cuts to defense).
I think we need to tackle both at the same time.
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