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Unlike yourself, I'd be downright fair about it.
BTW, those with offshore bank accounts or hidden offshore trust funds are way more than just a little bit better off than most of us.
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The upper most 0.1% pretty much do just that, don't they.
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Or the maternity ward in Yuma, AZ.
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Do you think that the upper 0.1% live at your expense? Or are you merely jealous?
What do you think would happen if we took all the assets from the richest 0.1% of the US population, and distributed it evenly among the entire population? We'd have to include your pal Warren, too.
John
Before, or after the accident?
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There have actually been studies of such a situation. Within a few years the 0.1% have all their wealth back.
And Brad is back cleaning toilets ;-)
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I'm jealous as hell, as I too would like the lower 99.9% to be paying big-time for my not doing anything that couldn't just as easily be outsourced at less than one cent on the dollar.
Unlike yourself, I've never excluded those that actually work for a living, and earn every last red cent of their loot.
BTW, the upper most 0.9% would become more than sufficient as our rich and powerful, though at roughly 1% the given wealth of the upper most
0.1%, as such might still be giving away far too much of our hard earned loot to those that seldom do anything constructive to actually earn our trust.- Brad Guth -
Can't you just envision that scenario... Fred stuck for hours waiting in an emergency room while all the illegals get served first ;-)
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Umm, translation please.
So answer the question: what would happen?
John
Dallas.
Exactly! And for non-emergency / doctor visits at that.
Well what would you expect? He doesn't speak Spanish, and the triage nurse/receptionist doesn't speak English.
Then he was unelected and humiliated, which convinced Bismark that he was emasculated and harmless, so he appointed him Chancellor.
Our-winner-take all system is due to the Electoral College, which is also the reason we have never elected an extremist, since none would appeal to a cross-section of different states. If the loser in a state benefitted from any votes he got in that state, instead of the whole state going to the winner, then he would only have to win a few states and make a showing in some others, which an extremist might do successfully.
In that sense it could be said that Libertarians are too extreme for the general population, and changing the system to give them a better shot would eventually lead to what you fear most. Pretty ironic, but that's what you would get for thinking you know how to preserve freedom better than the Founders.
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And if they didn't they would have lost a lot more elections when New-Dealism was ascendant. How could they possibly stay Libertarian when its antithesis gained such a religious following.
Roe v. Wade comes to mind too. It was the left that decided to force their view on everyone regardless of public opinion. Naturally people on the right who wanted to force their way responded. Only a few intellectuals could grasp the need to let the democratic process do its work and allow some states to go one way and some to go the other way. But it's not the GOP's fault that intellectuals are a minority. They had to get supporters somewhere.
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How much did you donate to the truly poor of the world last year?
John
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OK. Thanks. We are roughly headed in similar directions on this. Now the ugly question, "When (if ever) is it a better deal to remove a child from a destructive environment, rather let the child stay with the parents / family / neighborhood?"
Richard The Dreaded Libertarian snipped-for-privacy@example.net posted to sci.electronics.design:
Unfortunately there only seems to be a few ways. Most of them amount amount to elective sterilization.
James Arthur snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com posted to sci.electronics.design:
Me too. After 40 years of it still gives me a thrill. Many allied endeavors (such as helping others learn how to do this themselves better, is one of them).
Isn't leaving it to the states still the official Republican Party position?
Uh, no. An employer pays whatever the 'going rate' is and don't know, or care, how much you end up paying in income tax. For example, if you're an engineer with a wife who also works the company is not going to pay you more, because your family's combined income puts you in a higher tax bracket, than another engineer who has a stay at home wife. That's your problem.
The only 'overhead' effect it might have is if a tax change were large enough, and broad enough in scope, as to alter the 'going rate', in which case it increases the cost of everything since it, then, costs more to produce.
Well, then, lets make yours 100% so the rest of us can get a lower rate.
The official position of the overall party, yes. But not the position of evangelicals, so I was just explaining why they became significant in the GOP. The fact that they haven't even changed the party platform makes it all the more silly for people to complain about their involvement in the party.
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