“It’s fodder for another post, but I believe privacy is dying if not dead already, and I believe in that future anonymity will come from being a face in the crowd.”

Yes, sir part deux! Privacy is gone. Dead. Done. Finished. We can all mourn and move on. This is one of those ideas we need not concern ourselves with debating.

I saw an article yesterday wherein Sony Ericsson is predicting that cell phones will have 10 megapixel cameras, full HD video cameras, 1 GHz CPUs, and 100 Mbps network connections.

But for now, I totally agree on a flat tax. I am FOR well off people paying more than poor people, but I think a flat tax addresses than better than a graduated income tax, which is insanity. Your 100% right that the time I spend figuring out what tax to pay is just stupid and it needs to be fixed.

On immigration, I have a problem with people breaking a law and not paying some penalty. I would also require English be learned by any citizen. Not for my own convenience, but because having so many people who can’t communicate with so many other people is horribly divisive, and will prevent these cultures from coming together into one American culture. I’m fine with subcultures and diversity in all its forms, but there needs to be common ground, and without language I don’t know what it would be.

On Health Care, I’m skeptical about all I have heard from free market to Universal. But something needs to be done. The greed in the industry is rampant, and hospitals overcharge because they know insurance is paying for it, and therefore those without insurance get hosed. It’s a fixed game, and the patients are getting reamed. I’d like to see a government health insurance plan that sets the standard for insurance plans. Allow anyone to buy into it at a reasonable price, regardless of their health, and force the free market insurance companies to keep up and compete. I think that solves the need for universal healthcare without turning the health industry into a government program. This would be similar to the USPS setting the terms of competition with companies like FED EX and UPS. Both have had to become excellent businesses, because there’s always the good old post office if either gets too expensive or shoddy.