I really really hate it when Obama and his administration do something so fundamentally stupid that it makes the delirious ravings of the crackpot conservatives correct.
The point I was actually making is that you can dislike and even hate the Zionist state of Israel without being anti-semetic. And in fact, the Zionist state of Israel is earning that dislike and hate very legitimately. They are ethnically cleansing their cousins the Palestinians. They break every promise made in the peace process and disregard international law on a whim. The only reason the US supports their tyranny is that a significant minority of the US voting public believes that a Jewish State centered on Jerusalem is a prerequisite for the apocalypse that they pray for.
There is a huge difference between being anti semetic and being anti zionist. The Palestinians being ethnically cleansed by Israel are also semetic. Sarkozy was not wrong (in this case).
So... We could save as much fuel by building 15 nuclear powered cargo ships as we could by replacing every car on the planet? That sounds like a pretty damn good deal.
No, it means using corporate tax free income hidden by shady accounting practices to pay your rent, and your meals and your clothes and your vacation and your jet and your yacht and your hookers. Rather than of having to withdraw that income for personal use and pay the appropriate personal income taxes.
I don't particularly agree that a laminar flow of wealth from society at large into the hands of a very small number of plutocrats is all that desirable. It looks more like the most efficient means of impoverishing society until it breaks.
Oh wait. never mind, this is a different fair tax than the one I know about. The one I recall was a flat income tax with a simple size of household exemption.
One of the fair tax's biggest problems is that it is such a radical change that the system can't really adapt to it. Maybe you should try to make incremental changes to adjust the current system to be more in line with what you want.
You can start by eliminating a whole host of tax breaks. Then, IF the nation is no longer facing insolvency you can experiment with lowering the top tax brackets to be closer to, or even to the lower ones.
Your argument is flawed because it assumes ignorant regulation is the only option. Our current regulatory climate sucks. But the answer isn't more regulation or no regulation, or less regulation. It is BETTER regulation. Regulation, when done right, does wonders for stability and equality. Food and workplace safety regulation is a big example that produced radical beneficial change in the quality of life for nearly all Americans over the last century.
Ok. But only if you remove person hood from corporations. Forbid corporate funds from being spent on political campaigns. And ensure that the wealthy can not take advantage of loopholes that allow them to hide personal wealth in corporations. And if you reset to corporate charter to what it was when the nation was founded (a temporary charter).
A: If they work, they must be payed. Slavery is illegal. B: some of them may have savings or income from outside prison. C: Some of them may have relatives willing to buy them things or give them money directly.
No it doesn't sound any different. And radical christian terrorists are responsible for just as much brutality around the world as radical islamic terrorists.
Photovoltaic can't produce base load, but solar thermal can. Several tons of liquid salt at 800 degrees can run a steam turbine all night long. It just doesn't scale down below the industrial scale, and solar power is currently used for smaller scale production almost exclusively.
Yes, I am very much pro nuclear. And that includes taking advantage of that giant thermonuclear furnace in the sky.
And if you build new feeder/breeder reactors you can use all that "waste" as fuel and go from a half million year problem to a 0 year problem because the actual waste from a feeder/breeder are either elements about as radioactive as natural granite or elements radioactive enough that they can be cast in a concrete coffin and will burn through their radioactive period in a century or two. That is a waste problem that can be managed without having to plan for time periods beyond the existence of the human race.
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I really really hate it when Obama and his administration do something so fundamentally stupid that it makes the delirious ravings of the crackpot conservatives correct.
Are you saying that "Megashark VS Giant Octopus" isn't scifi?
The point I was actually making is that you can dislike and even hate the Zionist state of Israel without being anti-semetic. And in fact, the Zionist state of Israel is earning that dislike and hate very legitimately. They are ethnically cleansing their cousins the Palestinians. They break every promise made in the peace process and disregard international law on a whim. The only reason the US supports their tyranny is that a significant minority of the US voting public believes that a Jewish State centered on Jerusalem is a prerequisite for the apocalypse that they pray for.
There is a huge difference between being anti semetic and being anti zionist. The Palestinians being ethnically cleansed by Israel are also semetic. Sarkozy was not wrong (in this case).
Compared to a plug in electric car? yes.
So... We could save as much fuel by building 15 nuclear powered cargo ships as we could by replacing every car on the planet? That sounds like a pretty damn good deal.
No, it means using corporate tax free income hidden by shady accounting practices to pay your rent, and your meals and your clothes and your vacation and your jet and your yacht and your hookers. Rather than of having to withdraw that income for personal use and pay the appropriate personal income taxes.
What makes you think that media should be in the hands of corporations?
I don't particularly agree that a laminar flow of wealth from society at large into the hands of a very small number of plutocrats is all that desirable. It looks more like the most efficient means of impoverishing society until it breaks.
Tax Brackets don't work that way, but the arbitrary rules on some tax rebates and exemptions do on rare occasions produce that effect.
People with resources can shop offshore as well for systems that rely on a sales tax.
Oh wait. never mind, this is a different fair tax than the one I know about. The one I recall was a flat income tax with a simple size of household exemption.
One of the fair tax's biggest problems is that it is such a radical change that the system can't really adapt to it. Maybe you should try to make incremental changes to adjust the current system to be more in line with what you want.
You can start by eliminating a whole host of tax breaks. Then, IF the nation is no longer facing insolvency you can experiment with lowering the top tax brackets to be closer to, or even to the lower ones.
Your argument is flawed because it assumes ignorant regulation is the only option. Our current regulatory climate sucks. But the answer isn't more regulation or no regulation, or less regulation. It is BETTER regulation. Regulation, when done right, does wonders for stability and equality. Food and workplace safety regulation is a big example that produced radical beneficial change in the quality of life for nearly all Americans over the last century.
Ok. But only if you remove person hood from corporations. Forbid corporate funds from being spent on political campaigns. And ensure that the wealthy can not take advantage of loopholes that allow them to hide personal wealth in corporations. And if you reset to corporate charter to what it was when the nation was founded (a temporary charter).
When they started strong arming windows onto OEM vendors, OS2 was a potential adversary.
AKA DOOM.
Trademark lawyer, not patent lawyer.
A: If they work, they must be payed. Slavery is illegal.
B: some of them may have savings or income from outside prison.
C: Some of them may have relatives willing to buy them things or give them money directly.
It matters when public opinion causes teaching anti-science as science, or simply defunding science that disagrees with public opinion.
Thats ok, the TSA agents are pretty eager to do fondle and grope downs now that the porn machines don't produce photo realistic images.
The next major terrorist attack will more likely be by the Lords Revolutionary Army (a christian terrorist organization) in or near Uganda.
No it doesn't sound any different. And radical christian terrorists are responsible for just as much brutality around the world as radical islamic terrorists.
Photovoltaic can't produce base load, but solar thermal can. Several tons of liquid salt at 800 degrees can run a steam turbine all night long. It just doesn't scale down below the industrial scale, and solar power is currently used for smaller scale production almost exclusively.
Yes, I am very much pro nuclear. And that includes taking advantage of that giant thermonuclear furnace in the sky.
And if you build new feeder/breeder reactors you can use all that "waste" as fuel and go from a half million year problem to a 0 year problem because the actual waste from a feeder/breeder are either elements about as radioactive as natural granite or elements radioactive enough that they can be cast in a concrete coffin and will burn through their radioactive period in a century or two. That is a waste problem that can be managed without having to plan for time periods beyond the existence of the human race.