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Taxing The Rich in Politics JoeUser Forums

Exchanging ideas is essential to a free society. However, when on the tax system a letter writer who is a math teacher says the government ought not to penalize taxpayers who are wealthy owes to free speech the entire equation. The tax system does not nor should it consider a simplistic proportion as the writer advocates, for it is just another flat tax scam that sees no unfairness to one percentage fits all. Progressive tax is based on taxable income meaning i

Reply to Your Whipping Boy Is Back in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]You're partially right, however - capitalism is the least efficient economic system, aside from every other economic system ever devised by man.[/quote] It's not that it's inefficient so much as that too many cooks spoil the broth.

Reply to Your Whipping Boy Is Back in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]You can't be a whipping boy if you enjoy being whipped. Masochist would be a better term.[/quote] Thanks for the tip, yet after six years on Ju I've built up an immunity so that I am no longer masochistic.

Reply to The American Inquisition in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]It is a vile connection, but it is not one I am responsible for.[/quote] All right, but it's a poor use of the term liberal unless you mean neo-liberal whuch is entirely different.

Reply to The American Inquisition in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] I didn't say that you weren't there, I just said that you were too young[/quote] Okay, Peace. [quote] I hope you can see where I'm coming from.[/quote] I do see; it's just that you're overreacting and persistently misreading my intentions.

Reply to The American Inquisition in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]your perspective on the atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki. [/quote] I doubt she 'd get the nuances.[e digicons]:beer:[/e]

Reply to The politics of panic in Politics JoeUser Forums

What with Huffington Post and cable news we are under attack by the media.[e digicons]:'([/e]

Reply to The American Inquisition in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Your original post states over and over again that any sort of "torture" by any of our people was inexcusable and that they should be punished for it, which is what I was disagreeing with. [/quote] Reprimand and censure are hardly punishment. "over and over again"? Really now! [quote]Those who were allegedly engaged in such unlawful tactics should be reprimanded and a public censure against the previous administration for violating the trust of the people.[/quote] [quot

Reply to The American Inquisition in Politics JoeUser Forums

77: Rounding up prisoners and shipping them to Quantanomo never should have taken place because it is vulnerable to the charge of wrongful imprisonment of those left to rot without counsel. Your claim that only three wer

Reply to The American Inquisition in Politics JoeUser Forums

"not the terrorists nor their liberal supporters in the west" A vile connection here; I refuse to believe that you really think that liberals support terrorists--ala Glenn Beck. [/quote]<img id="ctl00__Content__RepeaterReplies_ctl18__ImageAvatar" onclick="Sd.Menus.

Reply to Your Whipping Boy Is Back in Politics JoeUser Forums

How sweet it is! The whiz kids on Wall Street weren't thinking efficency when they packaged derivatives, they were shirking responsibility and passing it to thousands in anonymity--that's amoral.[e digicons]:beer:[/e]

Reply to The American Inquisition in Politics JoeUser Forums

SERE is melodramatic nonsense. Torture our own soldiers to experience what it's like to be tortured. If captured by al Qaeda training entails beheading just to feel what it's like, duh?[e digicons]:omg:[/e]

Reply to The American Inquisition in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Please cite an example of their benevolence in the treatment levied toward our soldiers (or civilians).[/quote] Why should he? He wasn't referring to our side being imprisoned by them. <img id="ctl00__Content__RepeaterReplies_ctl00__ImageAvatar" onclick="Sd.Menus.showMenu('userMenu0');" src="http://w

Reply to Should “Harsh” Interrogations Be Banned? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Isn't there something called truth serum that sort of makes torture pointless?

The American Inquisition in Politics JoeUser Forums

Fevers were running high in the wake of 9/11, and many high-level officials from the president to CIA bomb-ticking “24” paranoids—to say nothing of amateur sadists at Abu Ghraib —lost control of reason. No amount of rationalization will justify the use of unduly “harsh treatment,” or if you will, “torture.” Granted legitimate POWs are a respectable cut above the thugs of al Qaeda and deserve relatively humane treatm

Reply to Apparently, Texas IS A Whole Other Country in Politics JoeUser Forums

Texas in seceding would lose social security. This would amount to bailing out our shortfall. Thanks Texas.

Reply to Your Whipping Boy Is Back in Politics JoeUser Forums

And the same to you. Congratulations.

Reply to Long-term, I’m a short timer on forums in Internet JoeUser Forums

Interesting article. But I'm here to ask how I change my email address. The log in page doesn't have a way to change the address, only the password. I want to change it from rrkfinn@peoplepc to [email protected] Help

Reply to Should “Harsh” Interrogations Be Banned? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[e digicons]:beer:[/e] Bush himself said we don't do torture--a meaning with a wide berth. In addition to thr View, I suggest all of Bush press conferences.

Reply to Obama is Creating an American Hitler's Youth in Politics JoeUser Forums

Gee, maybe I should have stayed away longer![e digicons]#:([/e]

Your Whipping Boy Is Back in Politics JoeUser Forums

For months now I have been reading blogs, economic columnists, guests on talk shows, congressional committees and whatever, yet all more or less say the same thing without going to the core issue that the financial system is essentially inefficient and amoral. It is indeed the invisible hand of corruption. The juxtaposition of the auto industry and the banking system is a case in point, symbolic of what is wrong with the economic base. The outrage toward the Big Three—far from big for s

Reply to Jobs & Wealth in Politics JoeUser Forums

Thanks, Think Aloud . As you probably know I don't get much praise around here. In fact Watertown and ilk reign.

Reply to Jobs & Wealth in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]i'm extremely proud to have been working with a company which continues to make its products here unlike as many as 80% of their competitors that went from manufacturing good quality merchandise to having their labels slapped onto stuff made offshore that may look sorta like the real thing but...[/quote] Hat off to you!

Reply to Hey, if you don’t like something, find another country in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]We're not talking about the cost of life saving procedures here. We're talking about caring what Doctor A charges versus Doctor B.[/quote] Right, I can just imagine you driving round in your Porsche checking on doctor fees. Do you get your prescriptions at Walmart? Or are we only talking only about the pressing procedure of the lowlife?

Reply to Hey, if you don’t like something, find another country in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Sure, there are still games going on but the FACT is that today, the highest income earners now pay far more of a % of the tax bill than they did before Reagan. [/quote] It's obvious your spiking the cool-aid. You're rigging the game by citing this because you know damn well by dramatically reducing the marginal rate--the dems had a dirty hand in this as well--the entire parameters changed" in lieu of everyone incrementally paying taxes, however miniscule or gigantic, the Reagan-Bradle