I AM STILL THE DICTATER ( I wish)

Just a few more things I would do ----

1) Campaign finance reform : If you can't vote for them, you can't contribute to their campaign. That means no more corporate or labor union involment. Limit individual contributions to 2000.00 dollars.

2) Tax simplification: Eliminate the schedule A. Eliminate charitable contributions ( to much cheating). One page return with with schedules attached for interest, dividends and capital gain/loss. Phase out the earned income ( tax) credit. Again, to much cheating.

3) Corporate tax reform: Dividends to be payed from gross profits (before taxable income)
No more double taxation of dividends. The enormous advantages of this simple rule are too numerous to mention but your dictator would be quite willing to discuss this further should anyone care to ask.

4) Do away with the minimum wage. This would allow marginal workers to be hired for jobs that now go unfilled. Perhaps you don't remember the old days when teenagers would fill your gas tank, clean the windshield and check the oil and air. Way back in those days, a dime or quarter tip was expected. Do you recall the old folks in the elevators directing you to the correct floor.

This is the end of the dictator series. It is by no means the end of the ukases I would issue.