Just A Crazy Idea I Am Putting Out Here

[enoob57]

When it comes to money many say it's the love of it that is wrong... but my question is: why did Jesus call it unrighteous mammon? Lk 16:9

[LadyKay]

18 hours ago, Omegaman 3.0 said:

In any case, I suggest not mixing unrelated topics.

I don't think it is a mixing of topics. I think it brings up a good question. If we have money for this, then why not money for that. It brings up many good questions.  And it is my thread I can derail it if I want too so there. 

Well anyway, it was just a thought. It is not like it is ever going to happen. But I wonder what impact it would have on society. If more households had a stay at home parent. I think these are all good things to think about. Nothing wrong with thinking.  

[other one]

On 9/14/2020 at 7:20 AM, LadyKay said:

But it use to not be that way. It use to be perfectly acceptable for one parent to stay home and care for the family while the other one works. So what happen? Why have basic life things become so expensive that two people in a household have to both work? Children have to be put off or just dont have any. Or make it sometimes else's job to care for them or leve them on their own.

peoples wants got a lot larger....  People got into the interest trap by doing the buy it now pay later thing....   with interest to the credit cards companies and banks.  Houses got bigger and nicer and people spent more than they could afford with only one person working.....          I saw a house on the market here last week that sold for $38,000.     and the house behind ours sold three years ago for $10,000.  The people fixed it up rather nicely....  I think it's is a matter of what people want out of life at younger ages....   Education also plays a roll in things now days....   we are told you have to have a college education to get along but that usually goes along with a very large student loan package....

Our culture has changed because people want more at earlier ages...     Computers, big screen tv's $35,000 cars and $50,000 trucks, X-boxes, cable, all kinds of movie channels and cell phones...            we just have a lot more to buy than when one person worked..   And from watching friends and family the more we give kids the more the next generation expects...   and we have a generation going on now that a large number don't seem to want to work at all.

I know people who are coming out of college with a couple of hundred thousand dollars of student loan and ten to twenty thousand of credit card debt.....    one person working to live and the spouse working to pay off debts that don't seem to ever get paid off.

[Omegaman 3.0]

1 hour ago, anynmsfmly said:

Each and every time we raise taxes, It will slowly out-price the midfle class. Because they raise prices each and every time we vote to raise taxes.

They will never raise taxes, And not also raise prices.

Middle income wages, in the mean time,

Remain stagnant. Their income doesn't go up. $38 dollar, x, $38, x, $38, Over time, adds up to $114. 

They will never not raise prices, If we choose to raise taxes on ourselves.

Also, Not all of these bills are clear.

Which 3 hospitals ? For how long, and when does it start ? How is this going to help me, If i don't get an increase of the same amount, Or under that of $38, and more like $17....... Sometimes $2 ! ! ! !

Every time people vote to raise taxes, it's a vote to raise prices,

And the math doesn't add up.

The poor, and people on social security, Will not make up the difference in their tiny increase each year, Which was $0, for the span of 3 years during and between 2008-20015.

The middle wage workers, don't rise in comparison either.

We need to stop voting to raise taxes on ourselves, and unless we are disabled,

Take care of ourselves.

Raising it on so-called, "rich people", Causes them to leave the country, And not be able to pay their employees.

Tax increases, And relying on, And thinking the government is supposed to take care of you,

Instead of your own church,

And own family, Is what is raising prices.

People are supposed to have their own families,

To help take care of them,

and go to church for extra help,.And have a church family to help out sometimes. We are suppose to have private,

And small entities in our communities.

We are not supposed to be putting our faith in government, Unless absolutely necessary.

Nd trust me, If you have to,..........

If you ever have to,................

It is brutal,.And not easy ! ! ! ! ! ! !

We need to stop, Raising taxes and giving our money over to government.

They will turn around, And raise everything else, even higher.

While our wages remain stagnant.

Gb...........

 

I quoted the whole above post, just so I can say that I pretty much, if not entirely, agree with that. I quoted it, in case it is edited to contains something I would not agree with. I would point out, that it is seldom that we vote to raise taxes. We sometimes express that we would be okay with raising taxes, but mostly we vote people into office that we know will raise taxes, and we generally are aware that these people will raise taxes for things we might not agree to.

I often think that taxes are raised against our will, and when that is done, it can morally amount to legalized theft of property. 

[missmuffet]

On 9/11/2020 at 12:50 PM, LadyKay said:

So I was thinking like I do from time to time.  With parents having to choose between staying at home to take care of their kids. Or go to work. What if the Gov paid one parent to stay home while the other parent worked? Like say they will pay one parent $1000.00 a month to be a stay at home parent as long as the other parent was working out side the home. Let say they would do this until the child is say 16 years old. What do you think?   Would this work? 

I can't imagine the government doing this.

[LadyKay]

1 hour ago, missmuffet said:

I can't imagine the government doing this.

I can't neither. It was my idea and not the gov. Government don't listen to me no matter how good my ideas are. Maybe I should run for office. I have lots of ideas on how to make this a better place. 

[Omegaman 3.0]

3 hours ago, LadyKay said:

I have lots of ideas on how to make this a better place. 

You should post one sometime! 

[missmuffet]

21 hours ago, LadyKay said:

I can't neither. It was my idea and not the gov. Government don't listen to me no matter how good my ideas are. Maybe I should run for office. I have lots of ideas on how to make this a better place. 

You would probably win