2013-02-21, 19:11 | Link #183 | |
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Economic Left/Right: 1.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.21
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2013-02-21, 19:12 | Link #184 | |
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2013-02-21, 19:20 | Link #186 | |
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Typical collectivist dictatorship that took a nice buzzphrase to sound more innocent. It's not the first time. Won't be the last. There is nothing socialist about National Socialism.
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2013-02-21, 19:27 | Link #187 | |
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2013-02-21, 19:44 | Link #189 |
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Nope, they would not, they do not have a figure head, an agenda or any real impact in the political life of the country (the EZLN is a laughing stock). So unless you mean a one on one dialogue, I see nothing but leftist demagogy (whose motto is "the native is the property of the leader that works on it") in your statement.
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2013-02-21, 20:17 | Link #191 | |
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I vacillate between Lawful Good and Chaotic Good, depending on situation, actually. :P Wasn't ordinarily gonna respond, since I got the humor and there wasn't much else for me to say, but...
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But as for the laws, tell me, if Congress legalized slavery again, would you abide by those laws? Do you think Rosa Parks should have exhausted all avenues of legality before sitting on the bus? Sometimes, you just need to flaunt laws and ignore them. When enough of the populace does so, you nullify the law, or at least draw attention to the problem. And only by drawing attention, can you begin to change things. If it were up to me, I'd give everyone free health care and a basic living wage. It's actually cheaper to house and feed people, then it is to clean up after crime. So in the long run, society would save money. From there, if you want more, you can work to earn more money. This chart is handy for seeing exactly what kind of spending-to-benefit the US is currently getting compared to "socialist" countries, and it is telling. But to help pay for things, I'd raise taxes and cut loopholes. Draw down defense spending. Limit the amount of deductions you could take to $15,000 or so. Limit or remove benefits for those making more than a certain amount per year (say, $100,000). I'd set tariffs for products manufactured in cheap countries and shipped here. I'd set a minimum tax rate for corporations that they have to pay no matter what, as long as they do business in the US. The only deduction they get, is based on how many US workers they employ; hire more workers, pay less tax. And base the tax on the total amount of money they made, regardless of where they made it. To clarify... if they made $1 million, and that sets their tax rate at $100,000, then that is what they owe. If they pay France $10,000 in taxes and the UK $10,000 in taxes, then they only owe the US $80,000. In this way, they can't escape paying what they owe... only where they would owe it. This would also apply to rich people trying to hide money off shore... I don't care where they earned it, they are going to pay tax on it, so it is either pay the US, or other countries. And no, not worried about rich people or corporations bailing out of the US... they can't, because our market is too important. If they bail, then we have no obligation to protect their IP or products. And rich people will want to live in the US because we give the best protections for the buck. Sure, rich people, move to Belize... where your tax is called a "bribe" in that country and your security isn't guaranteed; just ask MaCafee. |
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2013-02-21, 20:29 | Link #194 | |
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2013-02-21, 20:35 | Link #196 | |
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Italians. These two in particular were subject to anti-immigrant sentiment back in the day. Learn your history, bud.
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2013-02-21, 20:36 | Link #197 |
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All people who refuse to steal, get stolen from and complain about stealers deserve to be whipped into silence. Let that Robin Hood steal your nest egg gold bars, then he gets his friends to hold you down so he can take a nice brown diarrhea shit on your face, boy! And don't you dare report it to the police or we will whp you then put a spike collar on you so you can't lay down for a week without stabbing yourself in the neck. Yeah!
He's talking about Mexico, not U.S. Last edited by Kudryavka; 2013-02-21 at 20:47. |
2013-02-21, 20:48 | Link #199 | |
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2013-02-21, 20:57 | Link #200 | |
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Obamacare may make this phenomenon less pronounced but there will still be many people who would rather wait for hours at the county hospital than just wither away in a painful death. And no they can't possibly be a cash register because they don't have enough money to even pay, otherwise why would they waste their time at the godawful county hospital when they could go to a better hospital and be treated like a king?? And if you were referring to a private hospital then I don't know what freak hospital you and your friend went to, and tell him to switch to Kaiser Permanente if he can. Last edited by Kudryavka; 2013-02-21 at 21:17. |
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