Flat Tax is a direct hand-out to the wealthy. It's simple math. Why do you think that millionaire-dildo Steve Forbes was so horny for it ten years back?

Border constraints penalize the result of the problem, not the cause, however I do advocate minefields and sniper towers, as long as they are directed outward, not inward. A secure border is a requisite of any stable, civilized nation.

Social Security is a must have, unless you want 90 year olds begging on the street and want to go back to the workhouses , poorfarms, and orphanages which we all know don't work worth a s*it. Dickens-eque Social Darwinism failed 150 years ago.

Forced Prison labor is were we get all our cheap good from China. Privatized Prisons were tried 100 years ago in America. It's called Institutionalized Slavery. There was a private prison in Washington State in present day Bucoda, WA. It was called Seatco. It was known nationwide as "Hell on Earth." It was commonplace for prisoners who talked back to guards or otherwise misbehaved to have their fingers smashed with a ball peen hammer, have their gruel cutoff for a week, and then sent back to work the next morning digging coal. Think about that next time you're in court for a DUI or get picked up for illegal fishing for when your WDFW license is sitting on the kitchen counter at home. Over 1 Million Americans are currently in prisons across the U.S. Equal to 1% of our entire population, a larger percentage than any other nation on earth. Some day, all those pissed off MoFo's are going to get out.

Talk is cheap. It's easy to answer all our problems with simple sounding solutions, but when put to work, they often result in much more dire problems...

Like The War on Drugs/Terror/Porn/naughty music/alcohol/snowboarders/etc..