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**cheaploans** · 12-21-2008, 09:27 PM

Step 1. Legalize drugs and tax them.

I agree, if by "drugs" you mean marijuana. What other drug is relatively safe? LSD? Mescalin?

Maybe we could have a buyout program where people could 'adopt a senior' and opt out of paying any Social Security Tax - encouraging the re-extension of families and the re-knitting of communities.

Sounds promising, but to prevent abuse, you'd need the government to oversee it.

Suburban foodscaping, edible landscaping and permaculture would go a great distance in cutting down on food expenditures and all those 'gardeners' would take the leaf blowers off their backs and get their hands back in the soil producing food. Put the green space to work!

Starry-eyed dreaming, I'm afraid.

Relax zoning restrictions on larger lots for things like chickens and goats and allow mini-farmsteads that will be manageable with the extra help available from the 'extended' family.

I'd go a lot further with relaxing zoning restrictions; I'd let them lapse altogether, and maybe adopt a few entirely new provisions after enough years had gone by to allow us to make sensible judgments based on what we'd learned.

Thought you'd come up with more. Come on, now; Utopia is at stake.

12-21-2008, 09:27 PM	#18
cheaploans Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 486 Senior Member	Step 1. Legalize drugs and tax them. I agree, if by "drugs" you mean marijuana. What other drug is relatively safe? LSD? Mescalin? Maybe we could have a buyout program where people could 'adopt a senior' and opt out of paying any Social Security Tax - encouraging the re-extension of families and the re-knitting of communities. Sounds promising, but to prevent abuse, you'd need the government to oversee it. Suburban foodscaping, edible landscaping and permaculture would go a great distance in cutting down on food expenditures and all those 'gardeners' would take the leaf blowers off their backs and get their hands back in the soil producing food. Put the green space to work! Starry-eyed dreaming, I'm afraid. Relax zoning restrictions on larger lots for things like chickens and goats and allow mini-farmsteads that will be manageable with the extra help available from the 'extended' family. I'd go a lot further with relaxing zoning restrictions; I'd let them lapse altogether, and maybe adopt a few entirely new provisions after enough years had gone by to allow us to make sensible judgments based on what we'd learned. Thought you'd come up with more. Come on, now; Utopia is at stake.
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