Flat tax or Progressive tax?

 While everyone is debating about, whether the flat tax is fairer than the progressive tax, I think that the taxes are not fair, overall. People are working really hard to earn money, so why should they pay a big part of their own money to government, when government has no role in making that money? It doesn’t matter if the person is rich or poor, either way they work hard to earn the money that they have.  

     In the United States there is a progressive tax, which is a tax that takes a larger percentage from the people who earn more money; and lower percentage from the people who have lower income. According to the flat tax there is the same tax rate for all taxpayers.

      Some people think that it is not fair to tax rich and poor people with the same rate of tax. I think it’s fair and it’s equal for everyone. In this article it says that for example if a person earned $50,000 a year and another earned $300,000 a year, both would pay 17 percent of their income to the government. I think this system is fair or everyone. People claim that if a person is rich that he/she should pay taxes with more tax rate.

      But who said that it’s that easy to become rich, expect to the situations when people just get wealth from their parents. People actually worked hard to earn the money and be rich, so they deserved to control their own money. I think that government should just tax people equally, letting rich people to manage their own money. If people think that they have more than enough money they can send it to charity, so they can also know that their money is actually used or a good reason. 

                               1915...NEVER AGAIN

     

 

      100 years have passed since the day that the Armenian Genocide began. Armenian Genocide was committed by Ottoman Empire. This human disaster still remains in a memory of every Armenian. No matter gender, age and believes every Armenian recognizes the Armenian Genocide and demands justice. Such massacred happened in a world history many times, but most of the time the countries that had been committed such crime, recognized what they’ve done and apologized for it. Turkey, instead of facing their history keeps denying what happened in 1915 and claims that the deaths were part of a civil conflict triggered by WW1.

     As Turkish government doesn’t want to recognize the Armenian Genocide, the main goal of all Armenians is to make the whole world to know about the Armenian Genocide and recognize it. Only 22 countries have recognized the Armenian Genocide. The United States is one of the world’s most powerful countries and it’s really important that the US recognized the events of  1915 as Genocide.
  

  After Genocide Armenians spread all over the world, and there is really big Armenian communities in United States. During his campaign President Obama promised Armenian communities that, as being elected the president of the United States he would officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.

     After being elected, Obama is giving speech every year on April 24 about the Armenian Genocide. In his speeches Obama says that events of 1915 are “one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.” Since his presidency Obama never used the word “Genocide”, instead he calls it “Meds Yeghern” (which is Armenian term of “Great Calamity”).

     Obama’s careful wording is understandable but not really acceptable. He does it because United States is allied with Middle East affair. Of course, Obama doesn’t want to have bad relations with Turkey, because Turkey is big and rich country and by avoiding the much-feared word Obama has pleased ally in Ankara.

     On Sunday, April 12, Pope Francis described the mass killing of Armenians under Ottoman rule in WW1 as "Genocide", which of course, provoked Turkish government, and they even called the Turkish ambassador in Vatican, back to Turkey. This step by Pope has really significant meaning for Armenians. This event can be a great example for Obama and other country leaders to do the same. 

  

   Towards to the 100^th anniversary of Armenian Genocide the most discussing question in Armenia, right now is “Will Obama say the word “Genocide” on April 24?” If he would say the word “Genocide” it would mean a lot for Armenians, but in my opinion he would not say it, because he doesn’t want to provoke a big and rich country like Turkey.

    No matter how many years will pass, Armenians are going to remember the 1915 and demand recognition. Turkish government needs to face every shadow they denied and recognize the historic events.   

NOTHING WILL BE FORGOTTEN...NO ONE WILL BE FORGOTTEN.   

            Agriculture Industry in the U.S. and the Soviet Union

The main goal of Joseph Stalin was to transfer the agriculture of Soviet Union form individual farms into a system of large state collective farms. He believed that collectivization would improve agricultural productivity. One of the Stalin’s goals was the rapid industrialization, which he achieved by forced collectivization, but it harmed people a lot. People worked hard but they didn't get the profit that they made, so it made them not to work as hard as they did before.

     The United States’ agriculture during the same period of time was quite different. There was capitalism in the US which means that they were lot of private owned businessmen and farmers. This method was more profitable. People worked hard and they got the profit that they made, which made them work harder and harder and develop the economy. 
                                                
                                                 The Korean War

     One of the most important goals of United States during the Cold War was to prevent the spread of communism in other countries. This policy was called Containment. According to Containment United States found it important to help all the countries that were oppressed by communism, and needed help. That’s why United States entered into Korean War. The Containment Policy gave United States a reason to intervene other wars, which involved communism. The United States used this policy not for just fighting for democracy, but for its own interest, which created many casualties and economic issues and also was highly criticized. 

                                                    The Red Scare

     The Second “Red Scare” in the Unites States occurred during the Cold War. The major fear of the United States population and the President Truman was the spreading of the Communism. The Democratic United States had concerns that Communists might work as Soviet spies in United States. That was the main reason that President Truman issued Executive Order, according to which all federal employees had been analyzed to determine whether they were loyal to the government. One of the efforts to investigate communist activities was called House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). HUAC’s investigations were focused on Communists working inside the federal government and in the Hollywood film industry. Movie executives created blacklists that barred suspected radicals from employment. The same thing happened in other industries.