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The New 15% Corporate Minimum Tax Will Pay for the Student Loan Forgiveness Program. It's Like Robin Hood... Take From the Rich and Give to the Poor. MY Taxes Didn't Increase... So I'm Not Paying a Penny for this New Program.

$238 Billion Dollars will now be Spent by Students at Businesses... Increasing Profits... and Increasing Taxes Paid on those Profits... This is a Classic Example of BUBBLE UP! Economics... EVERYBODY WINS!

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In Reality, Who Pays for the Student Loan Forgiveness Program? NOT YOU and NOT ME. There is No New Increase in YOUR Taxes... So YOU Do Not Pay for this New Expense... SOMEONE Pays and That's the Billionaires...

and Tax Cheats Will Be Paying for the Student Loan Forgiveness Program. THEIR Taxes Will be Going UP This Year. NOT MINE! The IRS is Hiring! and They Will Be COLLECTING MORE Just When Money Will Be Needed to Pay for The New Expense...

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My Student Loans Were Totally Worth It! Graduating Doubled my Rate of Pay! After Graduating with a BSCS (Computer Science), I got a Job that Paid twice as much as I Had ever been Paid Before... and Put my Student Loan on Auto Pay... It was Gone in 5 Years... HOWEVER... I went to Humboldt State University where the Tuition is LOW... What if You went to School in a State that was NOT CALIFORNIA? Then You would have a Massive Student Loan Debt... What if You Didn't Graduate in a PRACTICAL MAJOR? and Ended up Making Tacos at Taco Bell again... There are Many Majors that are Totally Useless... At HSU if You Studied Nursing or Computers You did Great! but those "whooptie-doo" Majors left Students with a Huge Pile of Debt and NO SELLABLE SKILLS!

and "SG" on FaceBorg Asked: Why should I be responsible for your student loan debt?

and I Responded: You are not Responsible under the Biden Plan... All of this is paid for by Taxing the Super Rich. There is no Increase to Your Taxes... There is a 15% Tax on Billionaires... and The IRS WILL be Auditing Tax Cheats... That's where the Money Comes from...

Fact check: If you don't make $400,000, you are not paying more taxes for anyone's student loans.

Not one dime.

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The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abbey,

1984 by George Orwell,

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate by John Marks,

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe,

The Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand,

One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest by Ken Kesey,

My Problem Child by Dr Albert Hofmann,

Remember, Be Here Now by Ram Dass,

The Psychedelic Experience by Dr Timothy Leary and Dr Richard Alpert,

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence by Robert Pirsig,

America's Bogus Wars by Gregory Vanderlaan,

Island by Aldous Huxley,

Foundation by Isaac Asimov,

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein,

You are not the Target by Laura Huxley,

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley,

The Time Machine by HG Wells, 

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, 

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol,

Thru the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol, 

The Wizard of OZ by Frank Baum, 

Tom Sawyer - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe (and Everything 

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The Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft,

The Teachings of don Juan by Carlos Castaneda,

The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz,

The Art of the Failed Deal by don Trump,

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds 

by Charles Mackay,

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,

2001 by Arthur C. Clarke, 

Dune by Frank Herbert,

The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle,

The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien,

The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien,

#France1789 by Gregory Vanderlaan, 

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card,

The Bible by Various Authors (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, 

Ezekiel, Enoch, Peter, Paul and Mary),

Still Here by Ram Dass,

The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov,

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov,

Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley,

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, 

Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill W.

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I Wish We Had Studied More Practical Subjects in High School. For Example: Plumbing. While I Have Never Used My Ability to Diagram a Sentence EVER, I Have Needed to Fix a Dripping Faucet.

Clogged Drains in the Kitchen Sink are a Significant Part of Real Life while Calculus is Useless. Classes in How to Balance a Checkbook, Avoiding Credit Card Debt and Filing Income Taxes Would Have Been Valuable.

One Class they ought to add is Critical Thinking. In a World where there are SO Many People Lying it has been Handy to Know That Logical Fallacies Exist. I Took that Class in College and It Helped Me To WAKE UP! I Realized That It Was a Good Idea to "Think for Myself and Question Authority." For Example: 400,000 People Died from Opioid Overdoses in the USA. But First, They Had to Believe Their Doctor and Buy That Prescription... Remember: Believing Lies Is Not the Best Plan for Life...

Another Example: "They" Don't Tell You that Owning a Gun Makes Your Family LESS SAFE. The Increase in Successful Suicides, The Increase in Accidents and The Increase of One Family Member Shooting Another During Arguments TOTALLY OUTNUMBER the Number of Times You Defend Your Family From "Bad Guys." They Lie to You In Order To Increase Profits... WAKE UP!

A More Subtle Example: TV Advertisements for Prescription Drugs (and Booze, Cars and Trucks) often show Beautiful Young People Doing Ecstatic Dancing! The Hidden Meaning Is That If You Take Their Drug You Will Feel Like Those People in the Ads. Rock Stars, Hang Gliders, Surfers, People Whose Children Just Graduated for College, People Who Won the Stuffed Bear at the Carnival, Mountain Climbers... I Always Turn off the Sound During Commercials and Often it is Impossible to Tell What Disease that Specific Drug is Used to Cure... All I Know is that by Taking The Drug, The Pretty Lead Singer in the Band was able to Cure Her Nausea and Sing and Their Concert was Wonderful... and Everybody Was Dancing WITHOUT DANDRUFF... There is One Ad That Shows BLISSED OUT PEOPLE Releasing Thousands of Fire Filled Paper Bags that Float into the Night Sky... I HAVE Felt Like Those People... ON LSD... However... "One Pill Makes You Larger, and One Pill Makes You Small, and the Ones That Mother Gives You, Don't Do Anything At All... Go Ask Alice... When She's Ten Foot Tall..." - Grace Slick

I Question IF Wayfair Delivers Happiness. Is Consumption of Plastic Crap The Key To True Enlightenment? Did Buddha Use His Credit Card to Order a Load of More, More, More STUFF? Remember: There are Two Ways to Get Everything You Want. Get More or Want Less.

One Class I Wish I Had Taken in College was How to Use Microsoft Word and Excel. The Teacher said We Could Simpy Take the Final Exam and Challenge the Class and I Did That. If You Passed the Final, You Didn't Have to Attend The Class. Well, I Wish I Had Learned A LOT MORE about those Programs Because... At Work... They were the Most Often Used Programs... and Some Stuff Would Have been Super Handy To Know... Later, I DID Take a Class in Excel Paid for by My Employer... Because we really used that a LOT. We Created Contracts For The Clients to Sign and All the Contracts Had To Be Identical, But With Different Names, Addresses, Dates ETC. One Day, My Boss Told Me that She Had Esased the Word Document She was Working On... Well, It Is Possible to Find an Old Copy, But I Didn't Know How... I Had Never Accidentally Erased My Work so I Just Didn't Know... That Would Have Been an Opportunity To Be The Hero but...

A great TV Show is "The UnXplained" with William Shatner. Have any of You Done FIREWALKING? I don't understand how it's possible to walk on fire without doing damage to the feet. I Can Understand Not Feeling Pain in a Trance State but... The Lack of Damage is Unexplainable. My Store Manager at Radio Shack Did Firewalking. They all Chanted and Danced into a Trance and then He Did It. It was a Training Exercise for Store Managers Paid for by the Corporation Because... they felt that "If You Can Walk On Fire, You Can Certainly Run a Store." It Was A Confidence Building Exercise.

In My Experience Prayer and Meditation has been a Total Failure. Nothing Happens at All. I Have Explored Dancing Myself into a Trance at a Carlos Santana Concert and THAT was FUN... But That was All.. One time We Went to a Five Day American Indian Christian Ceremony. Two Hundred Frame Drums and Six Father Drums. I Was Allowed to Play the Father Drum... That TOO Was Fun But In No Way Did I Contact God. Many of the Other People at That Ceremony Were "Slain By The Spirit" and they Fell Down when the Preacherman Touched their Head... but I Felt Nothing... Of Course, I Have Taken LSD at a Grateful Dead Concert and THAT is AMAZING... and All Other Religious Ceremonies Seem LAME After That Experience... It Really Makes Communion at a Christian Church Seem To Be A PATHETIC JOKE... You Eat The Sacred Wafer and NOTHING HAPPENS... Well, Eat a Sacred Wafer at a Grateful Dead Concert and SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN. Have You Ever Read HAIKU On Acid? You Experience a Tidal Wave of Realization... Meaning... OH! I GET IT! EUREKA! FUN!

Sadly, I Have Never Experienced Anything Unexplainable. No UFO Encounters, NO Near Death Experiences, No Out of Body Experiences, NO Successful Prayer... Nothing... Yes, I ate Psychedelic Drugs and Saw Visions but That is a Real Cause and Effect Event. Not a Contact with God or Extraterrestrials... Even William Wilson, the Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Never Had a Contact With a "Higher Power" without Taking Psychedelic Drugs. He Had a "Religious Experience" While on Belladona and Henbane... now, That's some Powerful Dope! Only to be Used under Doctor's Supervision...

The Only Thing That That I Have Experienced That is Remotely Magical is the Time Effect of Programming a Computer. I Have Been "In The Zone" While Writing Code or Doing Complex Mathematical Computer Art. At School, We All Found that Time Travels Very Fast. You Start Programming and then an Instant Later, The Clock Shows That Hours Have Passed. I Have Also Experienced an Interesting MOOD After Watching the TV Show "Ancient Aliens" for Many Hours... Makes Me Wonder...

YES, I Have Experienced an Altered State of Consciousness Because of Sex. An Afterglow Does Happen... That Can be Explained by Darwin's Evolution Theory but... I Prefer to Not Explain it at all, Just Enjoy... Relax and Bliss OUT!

I Remember that one Day in the Computer Lab at School I Was Complaining about How Useless Calculus was and a Student said: "Calculus is Essential to the Design of Atomic Power Plants and Bombs. Without Calculus You Just Can't Do IT!" - SO, Not only is Calculus Useful, IT'S EVIL!

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- Tødd Frederick From what I understand, they don't have home ec class anymore.
  
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Kat Kelley you 're a genius!

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Lynn Sanders I guess you weren't in my civics class 1972 where we filled out a federal tax return. Mr. McCloskey

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- Gregory Laan I missed that... GOOD FOR HIM! Wasn't he the Man who Memorized all the students names in One Hour... Live... I Think It Was Him...
  
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- Laurie Miller Gregory Laan Yes he did!
  
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Gregory Laan Remember: Believing Lies Is Not the Best Plan for Life...

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Tødd Frederick I remember only one time that I had a unit on diagramming sentences and that was in junior high and I was no good at it. But that's not to say that it has no value. Each student responds to different inputs to start thinking critically. Diagramming sentences does have a certain science to it, and it could help some students to become adept at solving problems. But on much more practical terms, communicating in clear English is the foundation of getting ahead in life. Many people of our era can't spell or form a decent sentence or paragraph. So while diagramming a sentence may not be required, all the rest really matters.

I have two degrees. The first was a BA in business. The second was a blue collar associate degree, which puts an amazing amount of food on my table. The neat thing is that I am one of the few in my field who can write a decent sentence.

A plumber and a woodworker need a firm foundation in mathematics. Both need some business acumen. Some of the best things you need in life to get ahead can't be taught in school, you just pick them up during life, like street smarts.

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Stephanie Lynott That would be called vocational school, of which there are a few. It is a perfect fit for so many students.

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Renee DeLay-Harsanyi My brother took wood shop and after he retired from the Marine Corps started his own carpentry and handy man business and did very well. There was also metal shop and auto shop. But you do have to learn geometry to do these.

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- Renee DeLay-Harsanyi And that was thanks to Mr. Sorensen
  
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Tobar Bernadette If you would of taking Ag mechanics you would of learned plumbing and other house hold things.

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Tommy Gleason Absolutely agree with the critical thinking. If only kids could learn this early on, then they wouldn't get duped by the politics, religion, and conspiracy theories.

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Donovan Rhinehart Four years in Mr. Cassel's Industrial Arts class (Metal Shop) got me further in life than any other class I had in high school. When signing up for classes my freshmen year, the school suggested I take something more academic. Fortunately, I did not. In addition to most aspects of metal fabrication, Mr. Cassel taught his students respect, responsibility, confidence, how to shake hands etc... Mr. Cassel made a huge impact on a lot of kids.

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Gregory Laan SO, They DID Teach Practical Skills at LGHS... in the AG Department... I Just Missed Valuable Learning by Choosing the Wrong Classes. OOPS!