Issue #1: Taxes

Country #1 has a “13% flat tax” (albeit not a strict flat tax) and is doing away with capital gains taxes on long-term investments starting in 2011 – largely to attract more investment into domestic businesses.

Country #2 has a progressive tax system and is contemplating adding a VAT and additional high-income taxes.

If you guessed that Country #1 is (or could be) the United States and Country #2 is some foreign country in Europe or Asia, you’d be dead wrong.  Country #2 is, in fact, the United States and Country #1 is Russia.  How backwards is this?  The Russians have lived through communism and various forms of wealth redistribution.  The New Jersey legislature is looking to overturn Gov. Christie’s veto of the “millionaire’s tax” law.  If this continues, I expect to see American corporations relocate to better tax climates dealing another blow to the American economy. 

Issue #2: Public Sector Unions

Since ‘Puter was laid up, maybe his aching back distracted him from this editorial in last Wednesday’s WaPo.  Who are these people that editorialize in the WaPo essentially decrying the federalization of public safety unions and almost go so far as decrying public sector unions as a whole?  It solidifies the belief that Sen. Reid (D-NV) is completely out of touch with reality.  The editorial mentions that republicans are in support but only names retiring Sen. Gregg (R-NH) which surprises me.  Maybe the ‘Puter can screed in more detail as this is one of his favorite topics.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.