Education In America
Without the government the United States of America would no doubt, not be as successful as it is today. Following the paths that our founding fathers laid out in our constitution, our current government has amended the way we all live to adapt to modern times. There is no doubt that there is no such thing as a perfect government and that is why there are good decisions and poor decisions that the government can improve on. Without the government not everyone would have public health programs, education would not be as available as it is now, and the middle class house buying boom would have never happened. As I said, they is definitely room to improve. The government can improve on things. Education may be available but, on a global scale
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The GI Bill was created to help provide the funds for more than 16 million World War II and Korean veterans to get to finally attend college. Personally it allowed my father to be the first one in our family to graduate from college, he became an engineer, and went on to build a middle-class life for our family. A Historian named David Kennedy remarked that the “GI Bill beneficiaries changed the face of higher education, dramatically raised the educational level and hence the productivity of the workforce, and in the process unimaginably altered their own lives.” Personally I am thankful for the government in passing this bill, but my family was not the only one who created a life because of this …show more content…
No one is happy to give there hard earned dollars back to Uncle Sam and the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer because the taxes people pay are not equal. The US needs to create a simpler one-tax system that will tax people based on the total income they make and can offer a limited but have justified deductions for all the things that will build value into our economy. Tax filing should be become automated and easy. Companies should not have to need to offshore there money to escape tax-laws. Flat out from experience, the current tax system is just confusing. In fact, our tax system is one of the most complicated tax systems in the world. Compliance is a challenge just because of the complexity. Instead of just making the taxation process easier and finding a better way to enforce it, the tax code just becomes even more complicated each and every year. People in Singapore can file their taxes in less than 10 minutes but here in the USA we spend hours of hour time on something that could be made so much easier. If people knew there tax money was being used for purposeful things, and the amount people were taxed was fair no one would have a problem paying their dues, so this is an important issue to
The GI Bill was created to help provide the funds for more than 16 million World War II and Korean veterans to get to finally attend college. Personally it allowed my father to be the first one in our family to graduate from college, he became an engineer, and went on to build a middle-class life for our family. A Historian named David Kennedy remarked that the “GI Bill beneficiaries changed the face of higher education, dramatically raised the educational level and hence the productivity of the workforce, and in the process unimaginably altered their own lives.” Personally I am thankful for the government in passing this bill, but my family was not the only one who created a life because of this …show more content…
No one is happy to give there hard earned dollars back to Uncle Sam and the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer because the taxes people pay are not equal. The US needs to create a simpler one-tax system that will tax people based on the total income they make and can offer a limited but have justified deductions for all the things that will build value into our economy. Tax filing should be become automated and easy. Companies should not have to need to offshore there money to escape tax-laws. Flat out from experience, the current tax system is just confusing. In fact, our tax system is one of the most complicated tax systems in the world. Compliance is a challenge just because of the complexity. Instead of just making the taxation process easier and finding a better way to enforce it, the tax code just becomes even more complicated each and every year. People in Singapore can file their taxes in less than 10 minutes but here in the USA we spend hours of hour time on something that could be made so much easier. If people knew there tax money was being used for purposeful things, and the amount people were taxed was fair no one would have a problem paying their dues, so this is an important issue to