Advertising should be through product and services indexes. That really requires a federal sales tax. These aspect need to be detached, there is to much bias and control used in advertising, not to mention deception.

The federal sales tax could be the only tax, no others. Then what the tax was on should be kept separate as a budget amount to mange that aspect of consumption.

Its not to say that certain deductions would not come out of your pay, in fact if they are obligations then they could be and that could be the purpose of banking, they hold your funds and deduct your obligations. Then through dept cards actually display to you your consumptions. Banks could keep a rating on in an instant offer you a loan, finance a car a home, its nothing more than a ratio and the government should set the ratios. We obviously keep lying to ourselves as to what we can afford. Since the banks would only have income from interest on loan, and only really have access to you holdings they would like you to earn more, they could make it clear the more you earn the more you can purchase and borrow. Banks could be rated on the value of their clients, their holding in trust. But the gold back in a gold card!

My point is getting rid of advertising as we know it today is imperative, the cost needs to be direct and not external. We need to have real value, we are enter the age of scarcity.

So you really like the internet, and you pay to access it, you get it and a bunch more, maybe you should only get what you want and pay for it at what you believe it is worth. The level of aggravation and frustration in our society is directly related to getting much more than we care to see or hear or even have time for. It would be best to pay for just what you want, then those that supply the sites would genuinely need to figure out what it is we are interested in, rather than believing they dictate our mindsets to us.