Far too often in my political science class I hear that something is impossible, nothing can be done about that or even worse the only way to do that is to raise taxes. However I'd like to offer more specifics to my earlier in class suggestions. Sometimes I wonder if everyone knows what I am actually talking about.

It is most defnintely possible to do something about outsourcing of American jobs and still support a somewhat free market and free trade. How? you may ask well, let's start by removing the tax break that corporations get for outsourcing jobs. But while we are reforming the tax code let's go a little further and just throw the whole thing out. Replace it with a Fair Tax. The Fair Tax was quite thoroughly explained in Neal Boortz & John Linder's book. Harvard Economists and other experts have diligently crunched some numbers and by their calculations were the corporate income tax, death tax, and income tax replaced with a national sales tax then to keep the same income coming to the federal government it would be 23%. That sounds high and it is, but once businesses aren't passing on their accounting and other costs to their consumers the prices would drop so dramatically that we would only pay a little more for what we buy now. But wait! That's not all! By removing the payroll taxes and funding them with a sales tax (for goods sold in the us) then we as Americans would be better leveraged to sell our labor. Often foreign companies (like Hyundai) want to build factories here and hire Americans. This kind of thing would happen more often without all these harmful payroll taxes. yeah the chinese, mexicans and many others will out of desperation work for practically nothing. But Americans are well educated compared to many, and very, very hard working. Given a chance to compete we can excel because we (usually) work hard and smart.
By instituting a fair tax we would collect taxes from the blackmarket (most of the time), more from billionaires (they get taxed at like 15% no kidding) and more from the many liars who say they made less than they did. Yeah you know who you are....and that's almost everybody.

We currently incarcerate 3% of our population. This is impractical and way too expensive. 85% of our felons are incarcerated on non-violent drug offenses. Yeah sure I'd rather people not do drugs but I don't feel so stongly about it that I think it prudent to spend billions upon billions of our national & state money locking up people who only hurt themselves. We can take this money and put it into education. Like drug education, physical education, year round education, college education etc. A more educated person is less likely to be unproductive or a menace to society. Instead of paying big dollars to lock people up lets lock up truly dangerous people like child molesters, rapists, murderers and the like. This would account for less than one percent of our population the money saved would be tremendous. Police could have more time to solve crimes that actually had victims. Because these days police really act like they couldn't possibly solve a crime, heck it's easier to lock up some dude for smoking a joint. For instance say in Chamblee if someone breaks into your house and steals everything the Chamblee Police won't dust for fingerprints or even come out to your house. They can't be bothered anymore than taking a report over the phone. But in Chamblee you can in fact be arrested for standing on the sidewalk doing nothing in particular, they can (and often do) charge people with misdemeanor drug seeking somethin or another (I'm not sure exactly what it's called) and can lock them up for a month based on nothing more than. 'hey there's that guy let's get em he must be up top no good'
The War on Drugs is a war on our own people. We already have too many enemies I say we need to stop making enemies of our own people.

So in closing we need a national sales tax, we don't need accountants (it's made up work that America made up) and we don't need the IRS

let's pardon most of the non-violent drug offenders
Then let's put all this money we would be saving and put it into education.
But that would be POWER TO THE PEOPLE and what kind of people really want that?