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Re:Isn't that theft?
Animals have lived for millions of years without any money.
And yet somehow humans are the only stupid animal who can't figure this shit out.
> The right is inherent in the very nature of society
[[Citation]] because you are talking about only _one_ government and assuming that there is nothing better.
> real society
Define "real society".
Taxation IS theft. PERIOD. It is fantastical thinking has absolutely no relation to how a advanced society could ever function.
Your entire concept of money is based in a flawed premise -- there is never enough -- so we are going to create artificial scarcity to give it some "perceived" value -- and then take it from you without your permission.
As one alien said : "You mean you have to PAY to live on the planet you were born on???"
If people could dictate what X% of their taxes went towards education vs the genocide (military) far less people would have a problem with the complete and total mis-management of it. What other company do you know that is allowed to run decades with TRILLIONS of debt -- yet somehow it is magically OK when the government does it ??? WTF!!!
2001 $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...2004
http://blog.visual.ly/wp-conte...2008
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs1...2009
http://www.infohow.org/wp-cont...2011
http://www.coolinfographics.co...2012
http://chiefmartec.com/post_im...* A decade into a project to digitize U.S. immigration forms, just 1 is online
https://www.washingtonpost.com...Lastly, the problem is not the taxes per say. Instead of having over 2,600 pages of BULLSHIT you could summarize the ENTIRE tax law with one sentence -- but since everyone is too fucking stupid to do anything about it we are stuck with a broken, in-debt, slave system.
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Re:Corporate taxes
Exactly. We don't have a collection problem, we have an outradeous spending problem.
Federal Budget Death & Taxes:
2004
2007
2008
2009
2011
2012I.e. The government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7 Million PER MINUTE and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money!?!?
Spending money to kill other people is NOT the solution to balance the budget.
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Re:Corporate taxes
Exactly. We don't have a collection problem, we have an outradeous spending problem.
Federal Budget Death & Taxes:
2004
2007
2008
2009
2011
2012I.e. The government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7 Million PER MINUTE and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money!?!?
Spending money to kill other people is NOT the solution to balance the budget.
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Re:Books worth more than games
Agreed on the variety issue also.
I checked your profile at shelfari, and you appear to read a lot of the science fiction that I also like. So I suspect you might enjoy Scalzi's Old Man's War and its offshoots. I was also unaware of that book until I came across this image of the alleged top 100 books in Fantasy (ugh) and Science Fiction (yea). I already had nearly all of the science fiction side of the chart, so Scalzi was quite an unexpected find.
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Re:No matter what the outcome actually is....
> So, if Apple were to have won all her lawsuits, we'd have no
> HTC phones, no Samsung phones or tablets and no Motorolla
> phones being sold in the US.Yeah, Apple is suing everyone... and everyone is suing Apple, and everyone else is also suing everyone else. (This one has nice labels.)
Some sued first, some sued second; some of those are offensive, some are defensive; some suits are worthy and some are full of shit. But you can't lay all the blame at Apple's feet. Apple wasn't even the first to sue. Or the second, or third--some of those suits among the other companies go back to before the iPhone was even out. EVERYONE is doing the same thing Apple is doing. Doesn't make it right, but again, you can't lay this all at Apple's feet. EVERYONE wants to be the only player in this game.
If ten people agree to a fight to the death, do you get mad at the winner for killing the others?
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Re:Not a fair comparison
