Edit - Stopping Stupidity could pay for HEALTHCARE.

[Rosemary2205]

My boss pays me $17 an hour plus I figure another $4 an hour in bennies. He paid me for 4 hours ($84) yesterday to go find a missing $2.23 in a $400,000 account. Now that is just idiot. -- Legal accounting requires this all the time. It's ignorant.

One of my investments sent me a dividend check for 27 cents last week. It probably cost them $1.50 in paper, postage and bank fees to send it - not even including the labor cost to process it. Again. Ignorant.

For many years the IRS required me to pay the 24 cents I owed them, or actually cut a check for the 24 cents they owed me. Probably cost Uncle Sam $3 to do the transaction.

Wouldn't there be more money for wages, bennies, etc if the government and business would just adjust laws to make more sense? Why can't my investment just save up my dividends until they owe me $10? Why can't accounting laws allow companies to just write off small over or under amounts of under say .05%. Think of the money it saves that can be used for HEALTHCARE!!

[madinmaryland]

1. How about getting out of Wars based on lies?

$350 billion and counting. Estimated at $1.5 - 2.5 trillion over the next 20 years.

[Deep13]

2. Mind the pennies and the billions for illegal wars will mind themselves.

:-)

[whistle]

3. Has anyone bothered to look at the economic numbers of the

...nation lately? Housing bubble about to burst, unemployment rising, inflation rising, loosing more high paying jobs to other countries, individual incomes dropping, middle class shrinking as the wealthy grow wealthier and the poor and working classes grow larger and poorer.

[Lars39]

4. Our military spending equals the rest of the world's military spending.

Corporate welfare is another big chunk.
Social net programs are a drop in the bucket compared to just these 2 items.

[aquart]

5. Taxing windfall profits, excessive inheritance, and huge incomes

Would also offset the costs.

Not to mention reining in people so wealthy they have nothing left to buy but the government.