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Canada's CD Tax Out of Hand?
CRIA Watcher writes "The Canadian Copyright Board has just announced that it is bringing back the tax on blank CDs, called the private copying levy, in 2007. Michael Geist demonstrates how the tax has created a huge distortion in the retail price of blank media on his blog with as much as 70 percent of the purchase price now heading directly to the music industry."
1 - You have criminals in jail. if they are mostly black, then thats the way the card fall. You sound like a racist to me.
2 - Some of the facts may not have turned out to be as reliable as was first thought, but there was no where near 'insufficient' cause for any invasion in recent history. In this case you sound blind to reality to me.
Either way, take your garbage elsewhere, it doesnt hold water here.
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1) The poor are more likely to be in jail than the wealthy.
2) A poor person is more likely to be given a jail sentence (or at least, a longer sentence) than a wealthy person who has committed a similar crime.
Wealth can buy better legal representation, simple as that. Now, to touch on race again, a larger percentation of the black population in the US is porr than in the white population. Therefore, a black person is more likely to spend time in jail than a white man. Furthermore, a man is more likely to spend time in jail if his father has spent significant time in jail.
Now, even if we are to assume that this is not an issue of race, at least at the start, it's easy to see how this can quickly evolve into a race issue. Consider how long this has been the status quo, and can you then honestly say that race has nothing to do with this?
I don't see how you can just blow off the argument about race in your first argument, and then make a claim that the other is "blind to reality" in your second.
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Society as a whole is benefited from the availability of free public schools. I'm surprised that you don't want to give money to the teachers that teach our youth.
What would you prefer, everyone paying $10k per year per kid for their education? Sorta puts poor people in a bind and their kids would likely get screwed.
I think that for the most part, race is less of an issue than poverty in determining crime. However, the fact is that in most places with white and black populations, whites are generally much wealthier. While I think race is less of issue now, it certainly was a major issue from at least 40-200 years ago, and simply maintaining the status quo isn't good enough. For example, Australian Aborigines were goverened under the "flora and fauna Act (NSW)" until the 60s. It isn't good enough to just say "sure, they are classified as people now, they should just quit complaining". These underprivileged people in our societies come from such a disadvantage that it is unacceptable to dismiss their current situation by saying it is "racially equal" (because poor whites are treated as badly as poor blacks.)