Internet Safety For Children

I just finished reading a question where the poster simply asked why America has become so greedy. He volunteers for his community, plans to travel to a third world nation to volunteer, wants to help this country change, etc. The posters were almost all being immature about it telling him to leave, that he’s an idiot regardless of his degree, etc.

Well, I have something to say…

Do you remember why this country became independent? Yes, because we were getting ridiculous taxes. They were taxing so much, from paper, to tea and tobacco, and we got tired of it.

Well do you see something wrong? We get taxed on EVERYTHING you buy. Manufacturers get taxed for the raw materials they purchase, then they sell to retailers and they pay tax when buying products. When those products are sold to you, the "consumer" you pay a sales tax on that. That same product was taxed several times. If you’re a smoker, you pay more in taxes than on an actual pack of cigarettes. They’re introducing a tax on soda (Aside the sales tax) and on "Tanning" for those UV tanning booths.

From your paycheck, if you add up all that’s taken away, you basically worked for several months..yes months…for free. All the money you made for those months was taken directly by your government. In New Jersey, it’s not uncommon at all to pay upwards of $10,000 a year for homeowners as property tax as well. The interest you made in the bank? That gets taxed too.

And yet they still have no money and have a national debt of over 12 TRILLION dollars… (debtclock.com). Then you have the Wal-Marts… these guys that pay cents for their products knowingly made oversees by people who work almost full days straight and get compensated with enough to buy a bowl of rice and a bottle of water for the day, they come around and offer the same products for slightly cheaper (in many cases for only a few cents cheaper) than the competition and run all small businesses out. (Wal-Mart even sells coffins..that’s right…coffins…at an affordable price! Only online!). These gargantuan companies care nothing more than to squeeze every last dollar possible from the lower classes of america. Hey, I hear they pay a little over minimum wage, though, at least!

With so many enormous franchises, a lot of people have lost their touch with humanity. We are a social people. We are supposed to love our fellow man, respect and help. As the companies get larger and larger, they get colder and colder. The people running them are heartless pricks cashing in hundreds of millions of dollars per year for their salaries and laughing at the consumer the entire way.

We are conditioned to not give a hoot about our neighbors, to keep our faces stuck to the latest iphone, the latest slick and big tv! The next BIG BIG BIG car, we are taught to want everything, want it NOW, and want MORE. The average american is thousands in debt. We are trained to believe that we are nothing if we don’t own anything. The more you own, the better you are. The bigger your tv or car, the better you are.

It’s a country that started off on the right foot, but has been heading on a downward spiral so fast lately. There’s a lot of great people left, don’t get me wrong. These people, however, are quickly being outnumbered. There are less and less ethics, less and less morals, and more and more of our freedoms get taken away one at a time..but consistently enough. for your safety..

A law passed where you can’t sell tobacco or tobacco products over the internet…for the safety of our children! Don’t most kids stand outside a convenience store or gas station and ask people nearby to get the ciggarettes for them? I never heard of an underage kid buying a 1 pound bulk bag of tobacco, a $50 tobacco injector, several cartons of empty tubes, and start cranking his own cigarettes. No..in the name of your children’s safety, they now guarantee that not only your children, but everyone else buys their ultra-taxed packs of cigarettes that are over $8 a pack in New Jersey and over $10 in New York.

Where they install cameras on traffic lights…it’s been proven that in many cases, they hand over the controls to the civil engineers who get a commission for every ticket the police give for running a red light, so the intentionally decrease the amount of time the yellow light is supposed to stay lit. this means that if you’re used to 4.5 seconds (Which is a standard in many counties across the nation), and suddenly you have a yellow light that now only lasts 3.8 seconds, that fraction of a second is the difference between you making it on time, or running a red light.

Tickets increase, revenues increase for the police departments and the civil engineers for their commissions, and us runts that just want to get to work on time have to pay the price for their trickery. In fact, sometimes th

Well said! The first thing to do is to outlaw trade unions in monopolies, and that applies particularly to municipal services. I’ve no objection to paying anyone what they are worth, but hundreds of thousands are paid what they get solely because of the union membership card in their wallet.

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