Flat Tax or Flat Tire

            My opinion is simple; I would like to have a flat tax rate. This was even used for a short time after the Civil War and people were fine with it. It worked. This “Fair Tax” we have is not fair and the flat tax would be. Everyone would be giving out the same percentage. Say it is 10%, all you are doing is taking a zero off of your income and paying that. So if you made say $300,000, all you would have to pay is $30,000 leaving you with $270,000. This would be the best way especially for times like these. The federal government relied on sales tax before income tax and they were doing just fine and fair tax didn’t even arrive until the 1990s. Income tax didn’t arrive until 1913 with the 16^th amendment. I just think that they want more and more money. By “they” I mean the government. I mean people we don’t get to elect, people who are just hired get to make up our laws and regulations and are paid with our money. That just seems a little weird and I am not really a fan of that. So flat tax is the way to go and who knows, maybe it will actually help with our terrible economy which is just going to keep getting worse. Also with flat tax we might actually be able to get the unemployment rate reduced. Maybe crime rates would also go down because people would actually be able to hold a job and keep a good chunk of money. If this makes federal workers angry than they should quit because if they actually cared about what the laws and regulations they make did they shouldn’t care what they get paid and what we have to pay.

Criminal Deviance

At the Oregon Social Learning Center, Tom Dishion and his colleagues studied if deviant behavior was affected by deviant talk. So he had 13 and 14 year old kids be interviewed about some of the activities they did. Very few out of the kids said they never did criminal deviant acts. The others admitted to it though and a lot of it. Some of the kids even said the same things as others and this proved that when a kid does a criminal deviant act, he or she is never alone. Delinquents will always act in groups. The things that the kids admitted to were getting drunk and doing drugs. Some even admitted to victimizing girls and were proud of it. Tom found it astonishing at how open the kids were and furthered his research with the next part of his experiment. He now had his colleagues laugh whenever one of the delinquents mentioned a criminal deviant act and he found out that the kids would talk more on the subject the more laughter they got. These kids were being recorded and yet they just did not care about how much they said because all they wanted was some attention.