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[Andrew Weiss]

> >   Better yet... let the IRS compute the tax
> > and nobody has to file because they took the right amount the first
time.
>
> *ahem*  Do you really want a government organization to tell you how
> much money you _have_ to send them? ;-)

Yes.

But I'm a socialist #1, and #2 I'd do away with the electoral college and
have a real vote.  I'd also do away with a two party system... I think we
should have 3 or more... that way you don't have two parties that are
basically the same and compete on petty irrelevant details.  I am for strong
central and responsible government.  I'd like to start a standards
organization for everything (i.e. things that aren't yet standardized yet...
and hold companies to it)... for instance shoe size.  My girlfriend loved to
buy a certain brand of shoes at a store (it was the store brand)... They
redefined their shoe sizes without warning, and her old size no longer
fits... and there isn't a replacement size.  We held the same shoes up side
by side and the difference was dramatic... there was no justification for
this, it was completely arbitrary.

Andrew