at 46 I can already see retirement as a thing of illusion, over my career... wages never kept up with real inflation (actual cost of living versus what the gov likes to tell us the inflation rate is).  I'll be working till I drop dead, fortunately (or not) family history tells me that men on both sides are likely to dr...more

excise taxes on cigarettes go for everything from sports stadiums through balancing state budgets.... get more people to quit and where is that lost revenue going to come from?   sure, I have no issues for "sin" taxes but lets be fair across the board, lot of "junk food" out there should be taxed just as heavily not to...more

and yet the insufferable Matt Lauer still hangs on......  what dirt does he have on the execs?

a 1, 2, 3% Federal Sales tax on non-essential purchases would help greatly!

Electric Cars are NOT environmentally sound,  heavy metals from the batteries eventually will make it into the land-fills and water tables....   the green-house gases used to produce the electricity to charge the batteries also should be taken into account.  In the end, continue to improve efficiency in current gas pow...more