I was one year after punch cards (but I still saw students using them). It was necessary to stand behind someone and wait half an hour for time on a computer terminal.
I am 100% self-trained for software. Actually an electrical engineer (with a classical Engineering ciriculum) according to my degree, and that is the job I primarily did for some years. But I was learning how to program prior to college.
I am so happy that the Great Overlander takes such an...
If we can enhance the power of the police state then perhaps we will arrest some of these terrorists before it happens. Or perhaps we already live in continual terror and are monitored by a police state of our own device.
I am sure that the other countries would not do that.
We would "enjoy" much higher prices on the cheap goods from China, which are no longer made anywhere else. That would feel like massive inflation.
Abolish the invasive income tax entirely. Only tax transactions. Money is no good to you unless you spend it, so there will be transactions sooner or later.
I believe that income taxes should be abolished. They violate my inalienable rights and my privacy. They make me a criminal by default unless I take some action. Taxes should be consumption taxes charged at the point of consumption.