Anyone else find it funny that some guy is touting the greatness of British cars?
My hand is up, by the way, because your higher prices hurt your own poor and poor folks in the rest of the world. But you probably don't care about the well-being of the slant-eyes.
See, for the purposes of keeping profligate, idiot bureaucrats under control, tax competition is a Good Thing!
If countries lowered their tax rates and vastly simplified their reporting requirements, companies would no longer have the incentive to run around and find all the loopholes. It's proven.
By ending the TSA, airports will gain the flexibility to change their processes, and we will gain the ability to sue the shit out of said private companies when they grope us inappropriately.
What is it about "privatized" that makes you think there would be "no government oversight or accountability". And on the ground, how much less could there possibly be than there is right now??
Hate to break it to you, but 'unions' are not the solution any more. If they were, they wouldn't be dying off. There's a reason, and it's not because we're all too stupid to realize how great they are.
If they had opportunity to do something interesting rather than put up with menial labor, I doubt "70%" would be considered lazy.
If you had 40 more hours a week to do what you want instead of having to wash dishes to pay for your crappy apartment, you'd find some way to fill the time. I envision an unprecedented outbreak of craftsmanship. And massive increases in the size of softball beer leagues. Why not?
If 99% of us don't have to work because the machines do it all... how exactly would that be bad? I can think of a few dozen things I'd rather be doing today than sitting in this cubicle...
Removing Federal student loans will LOWER the costs of tuition.
Also, if you're smart, you can get into the Ivy's w/o spending your own money. Then again, suggesting that magically cutting administrative costs would enable colleges to offer "low or free" tuition suggests that you're not that smart.
Don't you think airport owners would pay to secure flights traveling into and out of their gates?? Don't you realize private airport security works fine everywhere else on the planet?
No, you're so certain in your own tunnel vision that to actually attempt to understand the argument would be to admit your own inadequacy.
He's living in a fantasy only if you believe his thinking on all these issues is as skin-deep as your reaction to them.
In other words: He doesn't want to just "wildly slash everything". You are aligned against a libertarian mindset, so you don't care to know the details. You see the headline, and pull a hammy jerking your knee so hard.
That's right, because Dr Paul hasn't thought about that at all, and just says "close it and frig all them idiots on the coast". That's exactly what he's saying.
Sorry, but this is just proof that a (relatively) free market worked. In this particular case, "public money" created the Internet, but it sure as hell wasn't public money that allowed it to beat the others in the *gasp* free market. It was the local net providers, the little ISPs, that provided a better experience.
Seriously, how many people have you 'seen' who are whining about gas prices while driving a monster mobile? Something here smells like straw...
You obviously don't have kids or you wouldn't be complaining about minivans. I don't have one, but with two kids and federal laws about how much space they have to take up, you simply don't have enough space in any small to midsize car.
There is a vast difference between taxation that representatives then turn and use to provide services vs. requiring any individual to do business with another.
In your view, the ends are all that matter. However, the means used to reach those ends are critically important.
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Anyone else find it funny that some guy is touting the greatness of British cars?
My hand is up, by the way, because your higher prices hurt your own poor and poor folks in the rest of the world. But you probably don't care about the well-being of the slant-eyes.
...And it's one of the worst rulings the SC ever spewed. Aren't we lucky? Now even not participating in the market is participating in the market!
Hey man, hundreds of billions of fraud in Medicare doesn't count as waste!
Future combat vehicles, years behind schedule and answering to wars we will never fight are not wasteful!
(Yeah, that pretty much defied belief...)
Oliver thought eugenics was a great idea, too.
Time to stop invoking his one line that might have made the slightest bit of sense.
See, for the purposes of keeping profligate, idiot bureaucrats under control, tax competition is a Good Thing!
If countries lowered their tax rates and vastly simplified their reporting requirements, companies would no longer have the incentive to run around and find all the loopholes. It's proven.
Hard to imagine people in America of all places do not understand the meaning of the word "right".
Wow, you're right. Civil rights legislation completely blew away racism in this country, in just a matter of minutes!!
This is incorrect.
By ending the TSA, airports will gain the flexibility to change their processes, and we will gain the ability to sue the shit out of said private companies when they grope us inappropriately.
What is it about "privatized" that makes you think there would be "no government oversight or accountability". And on the ground, how much less could there possibly be than there is right now??
Hate to break it to you, but 'unions' are not the solution any more. If they were, they wouldn't be dying off. There's a reason, and it's not because we're all too stupid to realize how great they are.
I didn't realize Somali "men [were] prepared for it"....
You think he was outside the establishment?!?
Your guess is based on ignorance and fear. Thanks for remaining anonymous so no one would goof on your unscientific beliefs.
And you believe it's all because of natural gas drilling. Sucker.
If they had opportunity to do something interesting rather than put up with menial labor, I doubt "70%" would be considered lazy.
If you had 40 more hours a week to do what you want instead of having to wash dishes to pay for your crappy apartment, you'd find some way to fill the time. I envision an unprecedented outbreak of craftsmanship. And massive increases in the size of softball beer leagues. Why not?
If 99% of us don't have to work because the machines do it all... how exactly would that be bad? I can think of a few dozen things I'd rather be doing today than sitting in this cubicle...
It will be interesting, that much is certain.
You have it completely backasswards.
Removing Federal student loans will LOWER the costs of tuition.
Also, if you're smart, you can get into the Ivy's w/o spending your own money. Then again, suggesting that magically cutting administrative costs would enable colleges to offer "low or free" tuition suggests that you're not that smart.
Another statist who can't see past his own nose.
Don't you think airport owners would pay to secure flights traveling into and out of their gates?? Don't you realize private airport security works fine everywhere else on the planet?
No, you're so certain in your own tunnel vision that to actually attempt to understand the argument would be to admit your own inadequacy.
He's living in a fantasy only if you believe his thinking on all these issues is as skin-deep as your reaction to them.
In other words: He doesn't want to just "wildly slash everything". You are aligned against a libertarian mindset, so you don't care to know the details. You see the headline, and pull a hammy jerking your knee so hard.
That's right, because Dr Paul hasn't thought about that at all, and just says "close it and frig all them idiots on the coast". That's exactly what he's saying.
If Dr Paul is a nutjob, you are a fucking idiot.
Jesus, no private company would ever pay for weather monitoring if it wasn't hand-delivered for "free".
Sorry, but this is just proof that a (relatively) free market worked. In this particular case, "public money" created the Internet, but it sure as hell wasn't public money that allowed it to beat the others in the *gasp* free market. It was the local net providers, the little ISPs, that provided a better experience.
Is it possible to argue that something sucks without having a good idea of a solution?
It's not like it's a easy problem to solve. If it were, it'd be done already.
Seriously, how many people have you 'seen' who are whining about gas prices while driving a monster mobile? Something here smells like straw...
You obviously don't have kids or you wouldn't be complaining about minivans. I don't have one, but with two kids and federal laws about how much space they have to take up, you simply don't have enough space in any small to midsize car.
No it's not. The means matter, whether you like it or not.
That is incredibly sloppy reasoning.
There is a vast difference between taxation that representatives then turn and use to provide services vs. requiring any individual to do business with another.
In your view, the ends are all that matter. However, the means used to reach those ends are critically important.