Down Syndrome Fetish
I interpret that to be Health Care if it can't be afforded by the wage slaves.
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"American is taxed higher than many other developed countries" you would need to add to this an analysis of the services rendered for the taxes in comparison. for one we are outspending the rest of the...
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None of them have balanced a budget.They've been counting our Social Security on the revenue side of the balance sheet.It's all accounting bullshit lies.
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Sorry traders don't provide any measurable economic utility. They are over-priced cogs in a wheel that doesn't really need to exist. There is an economic benefits to allow investors to move in and out...
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You're wasting your time with them.They only care about their own people and their money.The gated communities won't be safe when my brother,the security guard let's us all in to sample Kobe beef.
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Since when does the federal government pay for firefighters? I think federal highways are one legitimate part of federal spending. But states should pay for teachers and social services depending on...
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Federal subsidies should end. If states cannot afford their budgets, they can choose to raise taxes or cut programs. If state A wants to have socialized healthcare, it's their right - and they can pay...
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Based on that "interpretation" of the general welfare clause.......what exactly is the federal government prohibited from doing? What limits exist on the federal government, if any?
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The Government has no money of its own, it only has money that it collects from the people. This is a simple concept and only a small part in what a Representative Government really is. Please, leave...
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Yeah that would be a dream world. A entire nation populated with poor people. We could be just like Ethiopia and Zimbabawe!
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You have a tumor the size of a huge watermelon, therefore you must starve yourself to death, so that the tumor won't grow, and then recuperate. If you die because you starve, well tough luck for...
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Republican playbook 1st year - cut taxes. 2nd year - start a discretionary war to distract. 3rd year - borrow money to fund that war. 4th year - when interest payment comes due, borrow more money, loot...
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LIBERAL OBAMASSEIN MUST CUT TAXES FOR ME NOW SO I CAN OUTSOURCE MORE JOBS TO CHINA, INDIA AND MEXICO AND CREATE SHAREHOLDER VALUE!
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I will venture to guess that about 30 to 40% of federal outlays are wasted due to corruption, inefficiencies and just horrible management; independent of the agency spending the $$$. Every time we hear...
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That's right. And what limits are there on military budgets, when wars are not even in the pentagon budget, but discretionary? It's revolting how much we have blown on the military. Christian nation my...
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Too funny and true. I can picture some guy at the booth watching a mob with baseball bats and kitchen knives coming and then he steps out and says he won't stop them because he makes $7/hour.
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An entire nation populated with poor people -- except for a few fabulously wealthy. That sounds like the USA. (I just got back from a trip to the South --- this country is POOR!!)
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And we get less for our money -- no nationalized health care, no subsidized higher education or day care ... we don't get anything but wars, wars, and more wars for our money -- oh, and bailouts for...
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ENRON, AIG, GM, Chrysler.....shall I go on about the Corporate elites and the handouts. Dude talk about waste. Yea the Corporate saviors and leaders of efficiency and innovation. My ass. The rip offs,...
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"If state A wants to have socialized healthcare, it's their right - and they can pay 50% tax rates to support it." A fair sentiment. Except, that under the Constitution, no state can keep out people...
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Why yes, Mary. Many of the rich acquired their land, power and riches with the help and leverage of government. That is what the U.S. "framers" truly intended. The United States Federal Government came...
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In comparing US tax load to European and Canadian tax loads you have to figure in the total average costs of healthcare and longterm care, which you have to pay yourself (or via your employer) in the...
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I was just thinking about all the Indian land we acquired and the War with Mexico and Spain and the opportunities that they brought to businesses and investors. Also, don't we buy a lot of stuff for...
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In general, the waste factor isn't that great and the Government is often surprisingly cheaper than private businesses. Remember the days when people used to privatize government functions to save...
View ArticleWhat a crock of manure
You mean like those outsourced private contractors that handle fraud investigations for Medicare? Or Enron? your anti-government religion is chock full of half truths and outright falsehoods. Try a new...
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First we trim military spending by 25%, then we kick over to agricultural and other subsidies and eliminate them. Next we eliminate all "special exemptions and adjustments" in the tax code reducing it...
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You need to do a wee bit more due diligence on a certain Mr Bill Clinton. Iran Contra. Where did the transactions all go down? The coke, weapons and money logistics and the airport. Mina Arkansas. Who...
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Can you give anyone a reason that the Federal govt should be running anything but the military? I'm being flippant of course, but never would I suggest the federal govt. come in and run anything. Lest...
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C'mon... We just had a grand jury investigation into redundancy in our local government. A county of 265,000 people. They found nearly $1BILLION in redundancy to include pension costs. A tiny community...
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The federal government has grown to a ridiculous size - same with state and local govt's. We should all be in agreement on that. How can anyone want this growth to continue? Yes, smaller govt is the...
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And those wars before Bush were fought by soldiers. Bush ransacked our National Guard and sent them off to war instead because he didn't have to pay them full salary or benefits or even provide health...
View ArticlePeter Buchta
Raise taxes for the rich and cut taxes for the middle class and poor. Sorry to say that politicians have it all wrong as to who spends a greater percentage of the net income on the basic goods and...
View ArticleAlan Miles
The Framers didn't intend us to have a standing army, yet today the military is 30% of federal spending. Let's just shut down the military, ok? So, maybe the Framers shouldn't have the last word on the...
View ArticleWar For Profit
How about we start waring for profit? Rather than Nation Building,we should drain the natural resources of lands conquered.Let's serious about body count.Do you really care about Afghan civilians?
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We're nothing like those people,we brush flies out of our eyes and mouth.They don't even notice them.
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The theory of natural selection shows us that herding works, whether it's a wolf pack, an ant hill or a nation state. For it to work there has to be some balance between the needs of the individuals in...
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What's the matter? Don't you "support the troops?" What's going to happen to the defense industry if we don't spend more than the next seventeen nations combined on our military? What are all those...
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The entire Reagan economic miracle is hogwash. So is the economic miracle of the Clinton years. Reagan started his term at the beginning of a new business cycle, after the excesses had been wrung out...
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What economic utility is there to a trader? Does a trader produce anything? A teacher hopefully increases the skill level of students so that they will be more valuable to society.
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Tons of waste throughout,right down to Nancy p.'s $100 k/yr. bar bill.There is no disagreement from me on that.I just don't understand where these people get off asking for extended tax cuts,it's...
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There's a statement in India / Pakistan. I didn't make it up so hold your arrows. In India, a man sees a big home on the hill owned by a rich man. The poor Indian says "someday I'll go up there and...
View ArticleThe Laughing Buddha
Can you give me a good reason why the federal government should be running these social programs and not state and local governments? Economy of scale: why have 50 boutique social programs when you...
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How about we just banish the rich from our land and start over? Let's use them to colonize a nice rocky little corner of Afghanistan. They can even have their shit.We'll drop it to them from about...
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