How's about we cut all Senators salaries by ... 20%?

There's a lot of ideas floating around about ways to fix America's fiscal house, because fiscal houses cannot long endure unless they're fixed.  Or at least patched.

One idea floated by Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions who has been a senator since 1996 (that makes 16 years on the tax payer's dime, if anybody's counting) is that we need to clamp down on Food Stamps.  "Too many peoples gittin' food stamps" according to Sessions, "we cain't afford it no more."

He didn't say it exactly like that but in my limited experience with people from Alabama they all sound alike. 

I called Sessions office to offer another idea for gittin' our fiscal house in order 'cause I wanted to see what they'd say.  My idea was this: how's about we cut ALL Senators – that would include Sessions who worked about 90 days last year -- salary by 20%, from $174,00 to $139,200 which is still more than 2.5 times what the average American makes, and we cut their staffs by 20% too.

It's typical of people like Sessions that they're always lookin' someplace ELSE to do the cuttin' but never in their own trough.  So far, the Sessions folks ain't gived me a answer yet on my idea.

So I'm a-still a-waitin'.

Another proposal floated by Dennis Hof, proprietor of a Nevada cat house where cat housing is legal, is that the government should legalize prostitution and then TAX IT.  Hof claims to pay $350,000 a year in taxes.  "The government can have that money or spend a fortune on a vice squad.  People are gonna do it anyways, so why not legalize it and TAX IT?"  According to The Christian Post, who seem like the last people you'd suspect of reliability on the subject, $30 mil is spent on the oldest profession in the US annually.  As sensible as Hof's argument may be, he says the US is too 'square' to take his advice.

Okay then, how about TAXING POT?  This idea has been floated so often it's hard to pin it on anybody specific.  But now that three or five or seven or ?????? more states have decriminalized it, why not go whole hog and make some green off the grass. As sensible as this idea may be the US is probably too 'square' to do it either.

Finally, we have this from some billionaires who got together over a billionaires lunch and came up with another fiscal salvation.  Change the estate taxes, they say.  Super-Loaded people like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Abigail Disney claim that a 10% increase in the estate tax (called the DEATH TAX by Super-loudmouths like Sean Hannity) will bring in $250 billion in ten years.  Polls show voters oppose the DEATH TAX when it’s described as the DEATH TAX because they fear their own heirs will get hit with it.  Not likely.  In 2011 only 3200 estates paid the DEATH TAX.  Which isn't really a  DEATH TAX because contrary to what you may have heard on Fox (Faux) news – IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TAX DEAD PEOPLE.

        

That's five ideas for gittin' the fiscal house in order:  

1- Take food from poor people,

2- Take $$$$ from politicians,

3- Tax sex,

4- Tax pot,

5- Tax money left behind by dead people.

Which one do you suppose the Washington crowd will actually do?  I'm guessin' ...  #1.