What Should Obama do in the Next Two Years

[Steve Plonk]

"Come, partners, let's reason together" --LBJ

It is time that we, as the voting public, stopped "impeaching" everything and everybody we don't like and start working to solve the daily grind of problems facing the USA. Universal health care is an idea whose time is here.
Too bad the republicans and "tea partiers" are too selfish to spread the health
around. Just take the bugaboo of "abortion" off the federal monies and that
would save the plan, like it was done by Obama's executive orders.

Taxes are going to eventually needed to be raised on some cross section
of the monied public. It is time we actually ran on a platform of raising taxes.
You get what you pay for. If public taxes aren't raised, the infrastructure,
the military, public welfare, and so on will suffer. I think we should start by
raising luxury taxes, gasoline taxes, liquor taxes, and tobacco taxes. All
counties in the country should raise a "wheel tax" and have a "school tax".
The "wheel taxes" should be graduated depending on the type auto or truck
that one uses. Property taxes should be graduated such that those with
more expensive property will pay higher taxes than those with less expensive property. I don't know if graduated property taxes have ever been tried.

I am also posting this commentary on my own column.