UB - I like a LOT of what you said, but how can you justify legalizing and taxing online poker when you are legalizing drugs and not taxing. Also, why tax what people want to do with their personal lives and own money?
ID - Your idea for a 4th branch is fine, but putting government in charge of creating it is suicide to the cause. There would be more corruption involved in that branch than any other because they hold the veto pen to everything. Most "academics" are theorists who couldn't survive in the real world anyway, yet you want them in charge of our veto pen. Would these "scientists" be the same ones who Al Gore cited for his global warming campaign?
DDT - Not any summer in the world could prepare one to teach in a classroom. Being a great scholar on a topic doesn't make a good teacher; being able to teach is what makes a good teacher.
UB's idea of raising teacher salary is similar to my thoughts. I've thought if teacher paid $100k per yer, that it would be lucrative for scholars to go into teaching which would, in turn, make our educational system far better.
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