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  1. No icarus, we can all be rich if we just do some more bootstrap pullin'. That's why I am gonna vote for Republicans every time - I don't want to pay high taxes when I'm rich!

  2. Alright Walter...
    "Question the world man... I know the meaning of everything right now... it's like I can touch god." - bbobb the ggreatt

  3. Fuck all of the taxes.

    Republicans championing tax cuts for the rich aren't appealing to my sensibilities because they're targeting literally 1% of the population and playing favorites. I'm not going to demand higher taxes for the rich, I think most taxes are disgusting and shaping behavior with tax policy is offensive, but way too much effort and attention goes to cutting taxes for a very small percentage of the population. I don't care if the debate is on lowering my personal taxes or not, but talk about tax policy in a way that is not transparently favoring only your wealthy supporters.

  4. Why do you think that shaping behavior with tax policy is offensive?
    Check out Mr. Businessman
    He bought some wild, wild life
    On the way to the stock exchange
    He got some wild, wild life

  5. Quote Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
    Why do you think that shaping behavior with tax policy is offensive?
    The idea of a central planner knowing better than the infinite self-interested cogs in the universe is not only comical, but onerous. Individuals are a lot smarter than government gives them credit.

    It also has a habit of backfiring or resulting in unintended consequences.

    What I've realized: The most complicated and manipulative economic policies presuppose the simplest, controllable reality. While the simplest economic policy--laissez faire--presupposes the most complicated and unpredictable reality.

  6. Quote Originally Posted by MarkRyan View Post
    individuals are a lot smarter than government gives them credit.
    I don't understand how anyone with a brain that regularly interacts with humans could ever say this.

  7. This is the second year in a row that left-wing extremists have attempted to disrupt a candidate while he was speaking at the RNC (Code Pink did so to McCain in '08). Has the same thing happened at the DNC? And if not, why is it only happening to Republicans? I'm all for open dialogue and debate, but to show up somewhere uninvited and create such a ruckus is rather inconsiderate.
    Quote Originally Posted by C.S. Lewis
    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  8. Because crazies feel strongly about things? Who cares.

  9. Right wingers heckle sometimes, too. Their brand of heckling is a little bluer than Code Pink's, though.

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  10. Quote Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me View Post
    Right wingers heckle sometimes, too. Their brand of heckling is a little bluer than Code Pink's, though.

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    Come on, you're better than that. There's a difference between crashing a convention and making some noise, and actual bloodshed. I'm talking about rude behavior, not capital crimes.
    Quote Originally Posted by C.S. Lewis
    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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