On "The Situation Room" today, we asked viewers the following three questions, and here are some of our favorite responses that we didn't get to read on air:
Should Congress be worried about taxing pimps and sex traffickers?Is this a trick question? Has something slipped by me? Do pimps and sex traffickers have to register and have a valid Social Security number so they can pay taxes?
Sandy, North Carolina
The Republican Congress is missing the big tax picture. There is a helluva lot more money to be made if the IRS goes after businesses that pay illegal immigrants wages under the table.
MikeI am surprised at your reaction to taxing sex workers. First, we could really use the tax revenue. More importantly, it is a good halfway step toward what really should be done -- regulating the industry. Either a pimp makes his business known and pays his taxes or he risks prison.
JimSenator Barack Obama says Democrats should court evangelicals and other religious Americans. Is he right?Why wouldn't Democrats want to court evangelicals? With so many Republican politicians' morals and ethics in question, there could not be a more clever time.
Jim, MarylandRepublicans have been using religion as a way to successfully manipulate the American people. Religion has no place in politics, and I applaud Democrats for avoiding this non-political issue.
Dylan, Salt Lake City, UtahSen. Barack Obama is wrong. If Democrats try to appeal to the religious right they will become indistinguishable from the Republicans.
B., Manhattan, KansasHow much of a threat is redistricting to America's election process?Redistricting is just a ploy to stuff the ballot box by the party in power. It has been going on for a long time.
Frank, Las Cruces, New Mexico
We already know those e-voting machines can be tampered with, something like 98% of incumbents usually win their seats, and there's always the matter of hanging chads and Supreme Court cronies in a pinch, so redistricting is not a threat at all to the already corrupt voting process; it merely puts everything in a neater, more logical order for the manipulation we've come to expect. Gerrymander away, I say!
Paul, Fort Worth, TexasSignificant, especially in combination with insecure electronic voting machines and "ends-justify-means" zealots running polling places. I received my polling place location notice in the mail - the day after the primary.
Jacquelyn, Chicago, Illinois
