Comments on: What if

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:08:15 +0000

I wouldn't worry about that, Mike. That will be handled by the Department of Redundancy dept.

By: mrdoornbos

mrdoornbos — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:50:12 +0000

Outside of the 400 pages of rules they'd come up with for this, it's not a bad idea.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:43:38 +0000

Here's my idea using the example of curing cancer (but fill in anything else that we want.) The Feds call for a solution to the problem: here's what we want someone to do, and here is how we define success. The first company to do it gets all of their R&D expenses back, they'll never again have to pay any corporate taxes, and no one that worked on the project will ever again have to pay personal income tax. If appealing to altruism isn't getting problems solved, let's try greed

By: Jad

Jad — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:03:40 +0000

Ahhh… good point. We can always use a trebuchet to launch Shatner at them.

By: mrdoornbos

mrdoornbos — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:57:32 +0000

We have Willian Shatner still, I think he has this covered.