Flat taxes and Fair Taxes

                I feel like the way we have taxes today will be the same for a while because not everyone will like the flat tax or the Fair Taxes programs. So if we do have flat tax then people will pay the same taxes, like the poor people will pay their 17 percent and the richest people in the United States will pay the same thing as the poor person. Frankly I think that if we just have taxes the same as everyone else’s taxes then it will be fair for everyone. But at one time I did believed that the rich people should pay more for taxes than the poor people because the poor would have money problems for their families. But I think it is somewhat the poor people’s fault because they didn’t get a good job, but we also need people to work at the little jobs around the world. With all of the lazy people in the world they would just not work and try to file for unemployment or they would just find themselves a man or a man find a women with a bunch of money and just live off of them. I also believe that the fair tax isn’t really right either, because any one can just not work whenever they are being lazy but then they would fall to the “poverty line” and receive a monthly check called a “prebate” from the government.

                Fair tax is like where people pay an equal percentage of their income. But this one basically will affect the poor more than anyone else. But that could be wrong to and the tax program might have different affects to them. And the Flat tax is where everyone has the same rate or percentage regardless of their income levels and what field they work in. 

Differences

I bet no one has ever thought of how cruel some humans can be to another human being or something living in the world. The holocaust and the Japanese took many people that they hated. Like for the Nazis, they wanted to get rid of all of the Jewish people in the world, and the Japanese soldiers, tortured the Republic of China.  The Nazis and the Japanese wanted to torture and experiment on their enemy’s or the unwanted people.

The Japanese would take the Chinese people they have captured and they would make the families and make them rape each other. They would make the father rape their daughters and then make the sons rape their own mothers. If you ask me that is really gross and that is inhumane. The Japanese used kids and other people to have for bayonet practices. When the Japanese would invade in the towns they would shoot people for sport and try and get as many as they can. They also would use kids for targets to see how far the flame thrower would go and what the best range is for them. When they would be wounded they then would test on them and like cut off some of their limbs and torture them.

The Nazis would take the Jews and they would put them in a gas chamber. They also would make medical experiments on them and that is another way they would torture them. They would make them do hard labor and they made them starve. The Nazis were bad but not as bad as the Japanese.

The Japanese got pardoned because the United States wanted to use their medical research. That is an inhuman thing to do; I wouldn’t let them get pardoned if it was up to me. I don’t see why the U.S. wanted to use their medical research. But get this the Nazis weren’t pardoned they had to be trialed; to me that doesn’t make sense either someone woke up and started to realize that it was inhumane. 

President Nixon

                Nixon as a person was very smart he was a graduate from Duke University taking Law. He later on worked for the United States Navy during the World War II. Many people say he was a very hardworking man and no one ever said he was lazy, and he was also a formal guy. He also was anti - communist, which was probably a good thing! Sometimes he was a great supporter of the American Civil rights movement.

                Henry Kissinger’s real name was Heinz, he was born in Germany. He moved to the United States in New York. He changed his name once he moved to the United States he then changed his name. President Nixon selected Henry Kissinger as the secretary of State on September 23^rd, 1973.  Henry Kissinger was the first to be both a Secretary of State and National Security Adviser. Henry Held those positions ever sense Nixon was president. Nixon was sworn into office, on January 20^th, 1969. But once President Richard M. Nixon was impeached, then President Gerald R. Ford removed Henry from being National Security Adviser but he kept him as the Secretary of State.

                President Richard Nixon was a very determined man who fought to peacefully end conflicts around the world. Richard Nixon made the relationships better with the Republic of China, the Soviet Union (which is now Russia and other small counties). Around January 1969, Richard Nixon went to speak about the negotiations on some of the issues of the nuclear arms control. Nixon wanted to help and agree with the Soviet Union government to make nuclear arms limited. The “peace treaty” was called Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, also known as SALT.

 The Chinese have not let anyone in the country sense it was taken from the communist around the late 1940s. Around April 1970s the Chinese world champion table tennis team and the American team were surprised to hear that the president of the United States of America (Nixon) was willing to take a trip to China after the Chinese wanted to open a new door  to the Americans, in other words make new friends or alliances. The United States was very thankful of this big opportunity. Richard M. Nixon even said it himself that we should open up more. He said “We simply cannot afford to leave China outside the family of nations”. 

A lot of people argue whether or not Richard Nixon was a good president. Well I think that Nixon was a good president to some extents but after he broken some laws. President Nixon technically ruined his repetition. Richard Nixon lied and tried to hide things from the Americans, he let the U.S. citizens down. He attempted to cover it up but everyone assumed he was connected to the Watergate scandal. This “Watergate Scandal” was about some burglars getting arrested inside of the Watergate building. These burglars were connected to President Nixon’s reelection campaign, they were trying to plant a bug in phones and then they would try to steal top secret documents. Some politicians tried to cover it up so that the Federal Bureau won’t investigate the scandal. But when Nixon resigned, Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon for all of the crimes he so called committed. Yet when David Frost interviewed Nixon, David was trying to have a court like interview and he wanted to get Nixon to confess that he was part of the Watergate Scandal, which he did later confess about it. I believe it made him feel a little better than he felt before, because he felt really bad about letting everyone down. 

1.  Look at the interactive map.  How many cases of measles were in S.D. as of January, 2015?

                                                                                    13

2.  How many cases were in California?             How about Ohio?

79                                                                                                382

3.  What about the world in 2014?                       How about 2015 so far?

122,061                                                                                                      495

How many states currently allow for religious exemptions from vaccinations?

48

4.  Read the story of Tammy Hill and measles.  Write 4 sentences explaining your thoughts.

Tammy got measles when she was only 6 weeks old. That is so early and she was so young when she got it.

This made me feel bad for that family. I think that you should get vaccinated as early as you can.

5.  What are the two legal exemptions to the measles vaccine for students in South Dakota?

      a. if your severely allergic

      b. you have religious reasons

6.  Is measles an airborne virus?

Doctors say yes it is an airborne virus, its only around for 2 hours.

7.  List the "7 vaccine myths debunked by Doctors article."

a.       Its okay to delay vaccines and it lets your kids immune system mature

b.      more people die from the vaccine than from measles

c.       existence of the vaccine injury compensation program proves vaccines are harmful

d.      people who have been vaccinated can spread measles

e.      vaccination is a political debate

f.        vaccines cause autism

g.       illegal immigrants, are bringing measles to the US

8.  Read South Dakota's current law on vaccinations.  In a minimum of 200 words do you support the law as is?  If not, how would you change/amend the current law?  What would it say?  As a parent will you vaccinate your children accordingly?

I agree with this the law. When I grow up and if I have kids, my kids will be getting vaccines so they grow up without any diseases or sicknesses. These vaccines are nice to get and are somewhat like privileges. I believe that everyone may think differently but if you believe because of your or their religious beliefs. Yet everyone may think different because what if they aren’t religious and they just think that it is wrong to get vaccines. It would be nice if everyone could just have a choice even though we do have a choice. Even if you don’t get or take the vaccine you might be sorry if you don’t take it. Most people I know have been getting their vaccines for diseases such as the flu or whooping cough.  People who don’t vaccinate their kids are setting up dangerous risks for other peoples kids also. Just like Tammy Hill’s story when she was only six weeks old when she got measles and measles are technically airborne virus. 

Martin

Martin Luther King, Jr. said in a letter in July 1952 "I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high vision, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes."

Socialism is a political economic theory where a social organization supports the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned and regulated by the community. The term socialism has been used commonly from Europe. This word begins in obscurity, with many origins being suggested. The meaning of socialism both logically and sociologically, it could be contrasted to individualism. Communism is a form of socialism, communism is an economic theory. Which means workers have control over earnings of production, and plus distribution of goods based on the needs of individuals.

Capitalism is political and an economic system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. Some people in the world would like capitalism, but only eleven percent of people surveyed in like twenty seven countries were in favor of capitalism. The people who were surveyed for capitalism were arguing about whether or not capitalism will ensure better health. And so far the answer is yes. Capitalism does inspire more freedom, progress, and also growth. Capitalism promotes people to take or get some jobs and tasks. In other words become whatever you have ever wanted to be. Capitalism does bring all kinds of great things from everyone.

I think, by what I have looked up so far, which was capitalism and socialism. I believe that socialism is something that communists would pick. And I also believe that our country is a great place to be and that this country is mainly capitalism. I like or love how this country is compared to some communist’s countries. Socialism on the other hand does have freedom of religion, but it does usually promote secularism. But communism did take most of all religious and metaphysics is rejected. So in other words socialism isn’t so bad to some degree. 

Quote

                John Adams famous quote “Democracy ... while it lasts, is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide”. In this quote, you have to have a higher vocabulary and grasp on government and what the words mean to fully understand it. So if you don’t know those big words in the quote or if you don’t know anything about the government, which I hope some people do know enough about the government to know how things work and are not totally ignorant about it. Like one of the words, aristocracy. It means that it is the biggest class in some societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices so; it would be a lot like a famous political family in the United States. Monarchy is a form of government in which the sovereignty is embodied in one or two more individuals, so it is a lot like England with the Queen (Dictionary.com).

The quote is about how democracy will eventually kill itself and that’s just how it will work. It is how the United States of America is working right now. We have rules, the constitution, and certain civil liberties that we all are comfortable in living with. But the main problem is that we end up twisting and changing things to fit those ideals to how we want them to bend such as rules. That is where we end up in trouble. Granted we have the rights to bear arms, it does not mean we can go around and kill people just because we want to. But it does happen. And then we would have to find lawyers to help us bend or break some rules and rights to make it seem okay and so that some people can get away with it. Democracy is almost like a rule, like once a rule is made or passed then someone will be tempted to break the laws or find a way around it, or they would just want to be a rebel.

So the question about the quote really comes down to, what is the fate of democracy? Do we find a way to change it and save the fate? Or would that infringe on the rights of democracy and its people? It is a double edged sword either way you look at it. For example like if I didn’t do this paper I would be in deep dodo. If you change it, it takes away the rights of the people and if you leave it as a true democracy, it will destroy itself eventually.

Aristocracy. (2015). Your dictionary.com website. Retrieved from http://www.yourdictionary.com/aristocracy on January, 14, 2015

Bicameral Congress

The constitution immediately established bicameralism in the legislative branch, because it has reasons for historical, practical, and theoretical. Historically- during the 1300s the British parliament wanted two houses. Some of the framers figured out that the bicameralism worked out pretty well. Practical- most of the framers had a conflict with the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia plan. Also bicameralism is a form of federalism. Theoretical- the framers liked the idea of the bicameral congress; they thought it was a way to check everything. The framers also thought that the bicameralism was a great way to diffuse the power of congress and so that it will prevent it from overwhelming the government branches.