Flat Tax or What Tax?

                There are many different views and opinions on what kind of taxes the government should impose on the people. Some people like the way we are now, some want change. I personally believe in the idea of a fair tax. Where there is just a higher sales tax and everyone has to pay it. I do not think that a flat tax would be very fair. For example; in the article it talked about how if someone made fifty thousand dollars, and another person made three-hundred thousand dollars a year, they would both have to pay seventeen percent of what they made. I do not think that that is very fair for the people that made less.

                I do not know if this is already an idea, but, I think that the federal government should initiate a tax plan that automatically taxes people who make over a certain amount of money a year. I think that people like celebrities and sports athletes should have to pay a certain amount of money a year. This would benefit the lower class, because they would not have to pay as much taxes. The rich would cover for the poor if that makes sense. I really think that this plan should be in effect because; there are way too many poor people in the country that have to pay taxes, which we end up paying for anyways. I think that the people that have millions of dollars just sitting around should be required to pay to cover this. Especially the non-working, rich people.

                Yes, there would probably be many faults in this plan, and it would get torn apart by any political official. But, some of the politicians would be considered in that “tenth percentile” that would have to pay higher taxes. There will never be a good form for taxes. There will always be flaws, opinions, and different options to taxation.

Holocaust

                During World War Two, anything that anyone could imagine happened. This speaks true for torture methods, killing tactics, and absurd medical experiments. The vicious and ruthless acts that were played out by the Japanese and Germans were awful and inhumane. However, I think that the acts committed by the Japanese were worse than the Germans.

                Even though the Japanese didn’t kill as many people as the Germans did, they still dissected people, killing them slowly and torturing them. Germans killed mass amounts of people, but they didn’t kill all of them slowly and ruthlessly like the Japanese scientist Dr. Shiro Ishii. Dr. Ishii was the main conspirator in the dissecting of POW’s. The German scientist Dr. Josef Mengele did some horrifying acts as well, but not to the same extent that Dr. Ishii did.

                When people think of torture during World War Two, they think of the German Concentration Camps, not the Japanese and the Rape of Nanking. After reading these articles, the Rape of Nanking was a very violent event that took place. The Japanese just randomly killed people for the joy of it, they raped women and children, and made them do a lot more indecent acts before they would kill them. I believe that the Japanese were more vicious than the Germans, but the Germans were still awful.

                When looking back on what the Japanese and Germans did, it really is a dark spot on human history. The worst part about it is that the Japanese got pardoned for their malicious acts. They got pardoned so the United States could receive their medical research. I believe they should have at least had to go on trial as the Germans did. I really don’t think that they deserve to live after the amount of torture that they put people through.