Vote for the Common Sense Idea

Chuck Sheketoff

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For months the folks at Since Sliced Bread have solicited fresh, common sense ideas that will strengthen our economy and improve the day-to-day lives of working men and women and their families.

The winning ideas must

*Grow the economy
*Create good-paying jobs that allow people to raise a family, afford health insurance, pay for their children’s college education, get additional training and save for retirement
*Encourage existing companies to expand and entrepreneurs to start new ones.

Since Sliced Bread is so serious about finding and rewarding good ideas that a panel of respected thinkers and community leaders will choose 21 finalists and public voting will determine the top three ideas.

The winner receives a grand prize of $100,000 and Since Sliced Bread's commitment to work to make the idea a reality. The two runners-up take home $50,000. All 21 ideas will be featured in a book to be published in 2006.

After receiving more than 22,000 ideas (including one from me) they are fixn' to take a vote in early January.

You can sign up to vote here. Then you will be redirected to a page to send invitations to vote to people you think might be interested.

Here's your chance to put some common sense ideas on the public agenda.

  • Fresh Toast (unverified)
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    I like this idea. It is important that people be made aware of how their tax dollars are spent. I posted another idea that tries to accomplish the same thing - "Itemized Tax Receipts" http://www.sinceslicedbread.com/idea/21240 There are differences in how each of our ideas would be implemented and they each have a different focus. Politically, I think Liberals may prefer your version while Conservatives may prefer mine, but ultimately it would be best if both ideas were implemented. They each tackle a different end of the problem and complement each other quite nicely.

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