The difference is that gun manufacturing is a highly regulated and controlled industry in the US. If you want to start a company to make guns and sell them, there's a whole lot of red tape to go through. Home manufacturing sidesteps the legal issues.
Oh look, one of the biggest players exempted from toy safety laws that they wanted implemented. Of course, small companies need to spend a fortune to comply.
Do you believe easily treatable conditions would cost as much as they do in a libertarian society with no government enforced monopolies, compared to what we have right now in a world run by drug patents and with the AMA artificially limiting the number of doctors we have?
You don't believe it because you're a simpleton who has never actually dealt with sales tax. If you believing that just saying the word "software" will easily solve the problem, you might as well substitute the words "magic" or "god" or any other make believe solution to life's complex problems.
Not to mention, our roads are shit and are students do poorly compared to countries that spend less on education. I wouldn't hold those two things up as wins for American government.
Without the rental or used market to compete with anymore, there will be another effect. Prices will drop far more slowly on new games. They know they'll have gamers by the short 'n curlies, and if they want their fix they'll have to pay new prices.
And yet people who are proud to call themselves progressives are in many ways extremely conservative, puritanical even. It's a strange world we live in.
How much of that is real recovery and how much is trillions of dollars of deficit spending along with the cost of money being next to nothing? Reality will catch up with the US economy one of these days and it won't be pretty.
You mean the robber barons who operated based on sweetheart government deals? Drilling oil wells on land sold to them by the government and running their railroads on land given to them by the government? Those "free market" barons? Look at each and every monopoly and at the heart of it you'll find the government. Government is the only true monopoly.
Don't get me wrong, I don't trust capitalists either, but at least you have an option to not do business with them. Government doesn't give you that option.
Not only that, but I seem to recall reading stories about how some of the megabanks used their bailout money to buy up smaller, more responsible, better managed banks to improve their balance sheets. Now we have even fewer, larger banks. Some help that was.
Militia have never stood toe to toe with standing armies. What the militia can do is disrupt supply lines and render all that fancy military equipment useless. When your billion dollar jet fighters and tanks are out of fuel and your soldiers are hungry because a bunch of rebels killed the supply truck drivers, it makes it awfully hard to fight a war.
I disagree. We do not have the resources to feed billions more. Unless your goal is to keep billions at abject poverty and basic sustenance is all you believe is necessary for "living" then you're wrong. If all 7 billion people on this planet lived a first world lifestyle as we've defined it today, we'd have stripped this planet clean long ago.
That sounds like a good way to end any long term investment. You think people think short term now? Just wait until morons like you vote in sufficient numbers to convince our legislators to tax long term capital gains as regular income.
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For now. Technology continues to get cheaper and easier to use.
Where did say anything resembling what you're claiming?
30,000 people a year? Pfffft...
Hitler, Stalin, Mao. They killed people by the tens of millions.
You want to save lives? Disarm governments. Not citizens.
The difference is that gun manufacturing is a highly regulated and controlled industry in the US. If you want to start a company to make guns and sell them, there's a whole lot of red tape to go through. Home manufacturing sidesteps the legal issues.
Regulation to big corporations is like the briar patch to Brer Rabbit.
"Oh no Mr Government! Don't pass any more regulations!"
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Oh look, one of the biggest players exempted from toy safety laws that they wanted implemented. Of course, small companies need to spend a fortune to comply.
Do you believe easily treatable conditions would cost as much as they do in a libertarian society with no government enforced monopolies, compared to what we have right now in a world run by drug patents and with the AMA artificially limiting the number of doctors we have?
Wanna know how I can tell that you don't actually know any real estate agents?
Wait, I thought the best thing about the iPad was all the innovative apps. That means the public - not Apple - told us what the iPad was for.
Compiling is DRM? Stallman might be onto something...
You don't believe it because you're a simpleton who has never actually dealt with sales tax. If you believing that just saying the word "software" will easily solve the problem, you might as well substitute the words "magic" or "god" or any other make believe solution to life's complex problems.
Our students. Our. Yes, I realize I will get flamed for that...
Not to mention, our roads are shit and are students do poorly compared to countries that spend less on education. I wouldn't hold those two things up as wins for American government.
Without the rental or used market to compete with anymore, there will be another effect. Prices will drop far more slowly on new games. They know they'll have gamers by the short 'n curlies, and if they want their fix they'll have to pay new prices.
You have the ratio backwards. There are 10 suckers to every non-sucker.
And yet people who are proud to call themselves progressives are in many ways extremely conservative, puritanical even. It's a strange world we live in.
So people were forced to shop at WalMart and buy Chinese made goods instead of the locally owned store stocking American made goods?
Or did American consumer greed drive it?
Ah, so people were forced at gunpoint to shop at Walmart?
How much of that is real recovery and how much is trillions of dollars of deficit spending along with the cost of money being next to nothing? Reality will catch up with the US economy one of these days and it won't be pretty.
You mean the robber barons who operated based on sweetheart government deals? Drilling oil wells on land sold to them by the government and running their railroads on land given to them by the government? Those "free market" barons? Look at each and every monopoly and at the heart of it you'll find the government. Government is the only true monopoly.
Don't get me wrong, I don't trust capitalists either, but at least you have an option to not do business with them. Government doesn't give you that option.
Not only that, but I seem to recall reading stories about how some of the megabanks used their bailout money to buy up smaller, more responsible, better managed banks to improve their balance sheets. Now we have even fewer, larger banks. Some help that was.
Considering that the banks are making higher profits than ever while the economy continues to slump along tells me that we made the wrong choice.
Militia have never stood toe to toe with standing armies. What the militia can do is disrupt supply lines and render all that fancy military equipment useless. When your billion dollar jet fighters and tanks are out of fuel and your soldiers are hungry because a bunch of rebels killed the supply truck drivers, it makes it awfully hard to fight a war.
I disagree. We do not have the resources to feed billions more. Unless your goal is to keep billions at abject poverty and basic sustenance is all you believe is necessary for "living" then you're wrong. If all 7 billion people on this planet lived a first world lifestyle as we've defined it today, we'd have stripped this planet clean long ago.
Unfortunately, to find that genius in the pool of mediocre or below, how many millions of mouths will you create that need feeding?
That sounds like a good way to end any long term investment. You think people think short term now? Just wait until morons like you vote in sufficient numbers to convince our legislators to tax long term capital gains as regular income.