The US Constitution, and its First Amendment speech protections does not apply outside the USA to non-citizens. SImilarly, I don't know how the USA can bring charges against someone who committed no crime inside the jurisdiction of the USA. This makes no sense. It is like Kim Dotcom's case. Why does US law even apply to a non-US citizen who lives outside the USA?
Trumpcare sucks. Obamacare sucks. The best way to incentivize people to take care of themselves is to make them pay for their own healthcare. Otherwise it is eat lots of sugar, drink alcohol, smoke weed, and be merry for tomorrow we won't die because the government will provide us healthcare. Healthcare paid for by those darned rich people whose money I deserve so badly because I'm such an entitled victim of my own stupidity. Stupidity because I borrowed a ton of money via government backed loans and used it to obtain a worthless degree in gender studies from John Dumba** community college. Now I demand universal basic income from the government because I don't know a darned thing about anything that is valuable to the free market.
The solution to US healthcare reform is to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the free market.
Yes, I have to pay 10% of my increase to the church, but the church uses it to fund good causes unlike government which uses so much of it to promote laziness, irresponsibility, and unaccountability.
I love my kids dearly and wouldn't dream of leaving them behind in the USA. If I took them to Africa with me I would be committing a crime, and also I would be depriving them of their mother which they have a right to see.
You misread my post. I was never kicked out of any West African country. In fact I'm sure they'd love to have me back in Africa if New York didn't have such egregious family laws that trap people (prevent them from moving) like me who have kids and joint custody. I've never hit a woman in my life.
Unmask yourself you Anonymous Coward and I will be happy to debate with you the pros/cons of the FDA, NTSB, and NIH.
It could be supplemented by a volunteer militia, not replaced. Well equipped modern militaries are a lot more than just a bunch of guys with muskets and training.
First, have high child mortality rate then no need for so many public schools and have to deal with too many adults entering work force.
The high child mortality rate was high in 1913 because the live saving technologies of 2017 did not exist then.
Second, have people die an early age so Medicare and Social Security programs are moot.
Why are you saying people would die at an early age without Medicare and Social Security? If they didn't have to spend so much money in taxes/social security, and if we had a free market for healthcare, then maybe people could actually afford healthcare and they would have a hell of a lot more money in their retirement account. If I could opt out of social security and invest that money how I see fit, then I would do MUCH better off.
Someone gets disabled (lose a leg, arm, or paralyzed as result of unsafe working conditions) then dump them to unknown state hospital with no means of recuperating.
Disability insurance. Its cheap. There should be no government run hospitals. If you think government hospitals are so great, then just ask any veteran who relies on the VA. VA hospitals are abysmal. Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I find your response amusing. I would love to have my grandma come live with me. She is the sweetest lady I've ever known. My whole family is Mormon so we have few health problems because we are responsible and take good care of our bodies. The amount I'll pay in taxes over a lifetime could easily cover all the things you mentioned, and I would have a surplus.
Thanks to technological innovation, clean water is really easy to get almost anywhere on earth now if you have a little capital to spend. They have durable affordable solar powered devices that can extract water right out of the air even in the driest deserts.
We should get abolish the NTSB and the FDA. The free market would then be free to sort out all the issues that the "NTSB and FDA" supposedly solve. Any food, vehicle or service that was proven to be unsafe would be rejected and people would stop using it. Anyone negatively impacted could sue and seek recompense. Most of the advancements in medicine are done in the private sector, where funds are spent more efficiently than via some government program run by unqualified idiot(s). So yeah, we should abolish the NIH too.
If you want to stop being taxed then explain to me how you plan to fund roads, bridges, education, police, firemen, defense, schools, medical care, etc. You planning to fund those things yourself voluntarily? How do you plan to get others to help out? I've never heard someone whining about taxes with a good answer for this but maybe you can be the first.
I am OK with the government collecting taxes to build roads, bridges, fund police, the court system, provide defense so long as there is a process in place to ensure that the government pays a fair price for those services/projects (i.e. competitive bids from private sector contractors).
Firemen: Ever heard of a volunteer fire companies? These work. Our local fire company has fundraisers that work well. They get tax breaks too (they don't have to pay property tax for example).
I do not believe it is the role of the Federal government to fund education, firemen, schools, medical care, retirement programs (social security), etc. So many of these cradle-to-grave nanny state government programs were created in the 20th century because too many people were irresponsible. The best way to encourage people to be irresponsible is to deprive them of the opportunity to face the full consequences of their choices, both good and bad. People these days use government provided "safety nets" like hammocks.
How do I plan to get others to help out? Through private charities that compete with one another, and who have much better accountability/fraud detection mechanisms in place compared to government welfare programs.
First prove how society wouldn't fall apart by eliminating taxes.
See my follow up comment. I am not in favor of eliminating all taxes, just the vast majority of them. Taxes could be gradually reduced by tapering down government programs over several generations without society falling apart. We would need to give the entitlement generations (who would riot if their gravy train of free money/resouces from government were to suddenly end) time to die off. Kind of like how Moses was commanded by God to wander around in the wilderness for 40 years in order to allow the rebellious Israelites to die off before they could enter (and deserve) the promised land.
If you think governments are so good at wasting your money go ahead and move somewhere where you won't be taxed. There are countries where this happens or where it happens very little. I assure you that you won't find living there to be very pleasant however. Taxes are the price you pay to live in a civilized society.
Actually, I lived in a very low tax country in West Africa for a year and I lived like a King and spent very little money doing it. The only reason I haven't moved back is because unfair domestic relation laws (which benefit women claiming victimhood) have trapped me here.
The following socialist programs should be eliminated completely: Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. We need to roll the Federal government back to what it was prior to 1913. Then we might have "the blessings of liberty" again.
Let me clarify: stop taxing us so much by reducing spending and having limited government like the founders wanted. The U.S. Treasury could start by creating money debt free and spending it into the economy, rather than borrowing money from the Fed at interest, and then having to pay the Fed hundreds of billions of dollars per year in interest.
Stop taxing us. Let us be free to spend our money how we see fit, rather than forcibly confiscating it and wasting it. It is very easy to waste other people's money. Governments excel at this.
By forcing Uber to accept tips via electronic payment, the amount of the tip and the recipient of the tip are both recorded in a database, thereby making it easily discovered and tracked by government. Intrusive governments like the ones based in Albany, NY and Washington, DC want total awareness all transactions. That way people cannot transact anonymously, and thereby successfully hide their income from things like tips. If the government doesn't know about all your sources of income, then it can't go after you as easily if you don't pay taxes on it.
Do not be fooled. This is all about money and control.
Bottom line: This gives the NY state government more power since:
It increases their tax revenues
It gives them yet another reason to send a SWAT team with loaded guns pointed at your face to drag you out of your house and throw your in prison (because you evaded income taxes by not declaring your tips).
Then the women would die off because as a group they consume way more resources than they produce. Men produce more resources than they consume overall.
I have a Jotul F500 stove. It is 75% efficient.
http://jotul.com/us/products/stoves/jotul-f-500-oslo
When I burn dry wood and the stove is hot, there is no smoke coming out the chimney. Everything gets consumed. The stove recirculates any smoke inside the stove until it is completely burned. If you stand outside my house no matter which side you're on, you don't smell any smoke, and the gases coming out the chimney are clear.
I'm guessing that many perceived problems with stoves are caused by people who don't know how to properly operate their stoves. They're burning wet wood, they have a very old inefficient stove, they aren't controlling the airflow well, they aren't burning outside air, etc.
A modern wood stove is one of the most environmentally friendly ways to heat your house. You're burning renewable energy. I'm bothered by people here in upstate NY who put anti-fraking signs in their hard but who also heat with gas. Hypocrites.
Respect our right to privacy. Stop the snooping. I am upset and ashamed that the people of Utah have allowed this spy center to be built in their state. I had higher expectations of them. They should have cherished our individual liberties, upheld the Constitution, and told the Federal government take their spy center elsewhere.
This should not be the roll of government in my opinion. Let the free market decide. Yes, CFLs and LEDs have their place, but so do incandescent bulbs! If people want to buy incandescent bulbs, they should be allowed to get them at affordable prices. Let me tell you two stories about how incandescent bulbs are better than CFLs or LEDs.
My father and I used to work on cars together all year round including the winter. The trouble light we used had an incandescent 100W bulb. We used it for light AND heat! Anytime our hands got cold after gripping a freezing wrench, we would just place them around the light bulb and warm them up quickly. Now, the government is stepping in and telling me that they're smarter than me and that I need to use a CFL or LED bulb instead, which doesn't output nearly as much heat. So instead of having 1 power cord to deal under a freezing car, I am going to have to have 2; one for a light, and another for a heat source. LAME.
I know someone who replaced bulbs on a airport runways. The heat from incandescent bulbs is advantageous in street lights and runways in cold climate because the heat melts the snow which would obscure the light emitted from the bulb!
I am tired of the government pretending to be smarter than the invisible hand of the free market. Rand Paul talked about this. Search for: light bulbs rand paul congress.
If the police can encrypt their long distance radio transmissions, then we should be allowed to encrypt ours.
If the police can video record you from their patrol car, then we should be allowed to video record them from ours.
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The US Constitution, and its First Amendment speech protections does not apply outside the USA to non-citizens. SImilarly, I don't know how the USA can bring charges against someone who committed no crime inside the jurisdiction of the USA. This makes no sense. It is like Kim Dotcom's case. Why does US law even apply to a non-US citizen who lives outside the USA?
Say it with me: OMG Socialism! Hitler! Stalin! Mao! Pol Pot! Venezuela!
You're exactly right Anonymous Coward. Single payer healthcare is socialism. Disastrous...
Trumpcare sucks. Obamacare sucks. The best way to incentivize people to take care of themselves is to make them pay for their own healthcare. Otherwise it is eat lots of sugar, drink alcohol, smoke weed, and be merry for tomorrow we won't die because the government will provide us healthcare. Healthcare paid for by those darned rich people whose money I deserve so badly because I'm such an entitled victim of my own stupidity. Stupidity because I borrowed a ton of money via government backed loans and used it to obtain a worthless degree in gender studies from John Dumba** community college. Now I demand universal basic income from the government because I don't know a darned thing about anything that is valuable to the free market.
The solution to US healthcare reform is to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the free market.
Yes, I have to pay 10% of my increase to the church, but the church uses it to fund good causes unlike government which uses so much of it to promote laziness, irresponsibility, and unaccountability.
I love my kids dearly and wouldn't dream of leaving them behind in the USA. If I took them to Africa with me I would be committing a crime, and also I would be depriving them of their mother which they have a right to see.
You misread my post. I was never kicked out of any West African country. In fact I'm sure they'd love to have me back in Africa if New York didn't have such egregious family laws that trap people (prevent them from moving) like me who have kids and joint custody. I've never hit a woman in my life.
Unmask yourself you Anonymous Coward and I will be happy to debate with you the pros/cons of the FDA, NTSB, and NIH.
It could be supplemented by a volunteer militia, not replaced. Well equipped modern militaries are a lot more than just a bunch of guys with muskets and training.
First, have high child mortality rate then no need for so many public schools and have to deal with too many adults entering work force.
The high child mortality rate was high in 1913 because the live saving technologies of 2017 did not exist then.
Second, have people die an early age so Medicare and Social Security programs are moot.
Why are you saying people would die at an early age without Medicare and Social Security? If they didn't have to spend so much money in taxes/social security, and if we had a free market for healthcare, then maybe people could actually afford healthcare and they would have a hell of a lot more money in their retirement account. If I could opt out of social security and invest that money how I see fit, then I would do MUCH better off.
Someone gets disabled (lose a leg, arm, or paralyzed as result of unsafe working conditions) then dump them to unknown state hospital with no means of recuperating.
Disability insurance. Its cheap. There should be no government run hospitals. If you think government hospitals are so great, then just ask any veteran who relies on the VA. VA hospitals are abysmal. Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Your really are an anonymous coward. Unmask yourself and lets debate.
No bullshit. I cannot leave the USA because I share joint custody with my ex. You are clueless.
I find your response amusing. I would love to have my grandma come live with me. She is the sweetest lady I've ever known. My whole family is Mormon so we have few health problems because we are responsible and take good care of our bodies. The amount I'll pay in taxes over a lifetime could easily cover all the things you mentioned, and I would have a surplus.
Thanks to technological innovation, clean water is really easy to get almost anywhere on earth now if you have a little capital to spend. They have durable affordable solar powered devices that can extract water right out of the air even in the driest deserts.
We should get abolish the NTSB and the FDA. The free market would then be free to sort out all the issues that the "NTSB and FDA" supposedly solve. Any food, vehicle or service that was proven to be unsafe would be rejected and people would stop using it. Anyone negatively impacted could sue and seek recompense. Most of the advancements in medicine are done in the private sector, where funds are spent more efficiently than via some government program run by unqualified idiot(s). So yeah, we should abolish the NIH too.
You seem to have some naive nostalgia that somehow things were better prior to 1913. They weren't..
Things are better now because of technological advancement, not the growth of government.
If you want to stop being taxed then explain to me how you plan to fund roads, bridges, education, police, firemen, defense, schools, medical care, etc. You planning to fund those things yourself voluntarily? How do you plan to get others to help out? I've never heard someone whining about taxes with a good answer for this but maybe you can be the first.
I am OK with the government collecting taxes to build roads, bridges, fund police, the court system, provide defense so long as there is a process in place to ensure that the government pays a fair price for those services/projects (i.e. competitive bids from private sector contractors). Firemen: Ever heard of a volunteer fire companies? These work. Our local fire company has fundraisers that work well. They get tax breaks too (they don't have to pay property tax for example).
I do not believe it is the role of the Federal government to fund education, firemen, schools, medical care, retirement programs (social security), etc. So many of these cradle-to-grave nanny state government programs were created in the 20th century because too many people were irresponsible. The best way to encourage people to be irresponsible is to deprive them of the opportunity to face the full consequences of their choices, both good and bad. People these days use government provided "safety nets" like hammocks.
How do I plan to get others to help out? Through private charities that compete with one another, and who have much better accountability/fraud detection mechanisms in place compared to government welfare programs.
First prove how society wouldn't fall apart by eliminating taxes.
See my follow up comment. I am not in favor of eliminating all taxes, just the vast majority of them. Taxes could be gradually reduced by tapering down government programs over several generations without society falling apart. We would need to give the entitlement generations (who would riot if their gravy train of free money/resouces from government were to suddenly end) time to die off. Kind of like how Moses was commanded by God to wander around in the wilderness for 40 years in order to allow the rebellious Israelites to die off before they could enter (and deserve) the promised land.
If you think governments are so good at wasting your money go ahead and move somewhere where you won't be taxed. There are countries where this happens or where it happens very little. I assure you that you won't find living there to be very pleasant however. Taxes are the price you pay to live in a civilized society.
Actually, I lived in a very low tax country in West Africa for a year and I lived like a King and spent very little money doing it. The only reason I haven't moved back is because unfair domestic relation laws (which benefit women claiming victimhood) have trapped me here.
The following socialist programs should be eliminated completely: Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. We need to roll the Federal government back to what it was prior to 1913. Then we might have "the blessings of liberty" again.
Let me clarify: stop taxing us so much by reducing spending and having limited government like the founders wanted. The U.S. Treasury could start by creating money debt free and spending it into the economy, rather than borrowing money from the Fed at interest, and then having to pay the Fed hundreds of billions of dollars per year in interest.
Stop taxing us. Let us be free to spend our money how we see fit, rather than forcibly confiscating it and wasting it. It is very easy to waste other people's money. Governments excel at this.
Do not be fooled. This is all about money and control.
Bottom line: This gives the NY state government more power since:
Then the women would die off because as a group they consume way more resources than they produce. Men produce more resources than they consume overall.
Because it is so dangerous for a man to get married and have children due to unfair family law. MGTOW. Look it up
If honey bees are thriving, then why is honey still so expensive?
Totally. Mod parent up. I've lived in NY for almost 40 years and am so sick of this place. It has become a cesspool for parasite socialists.
1) No tax on breathing
2) One less revenue stream for government
3) More freedom for emitters of CO2
4) Happier plants since they need CO2
I have a Jotul F500 stove. It is 75% efficient. http://jotul.com/us/products/stoves/jotul-f-500-oslo When I burn dry wood and the stove is hot, there is no smoke coming out the chimney. Everything gets consumed. The stove recirculates any smoke inside the stove until it is completely burned. If you stand outside my house no matter which side you're on, you don't smell any smoke, and the gases coming out the chimney are clear. I'm guessing that many perceived problems with stoves are caused by people who don't know how to properly operate their stoves. They're burning wet wood, they have a very old inefficient stove, they aren't controlling the airflow well, they aren't burning outside air, etc. A modern wood stove is one of the most environmentally friendly ways to heat your house. You're burning renewable energy. I'm bothered by people here in upstate NY who put anti-fraking signs in their hard but who also heat with gas. Hypocrites.
Respect our right to privacy. Stop the snooping. I am upset and ashamed that the people of Utah have allowed this spy center to be built in their state. I had higher expectations of them. They should have cherished our individual liberties, upheld the Constitution, and told the Federal government take their spy center elsewhere.
This should not be the roll of government in my opinion. Let the free market decide. Yes, CFLs and LEDs have their place, but so do incandescent bulbs! If people want to buy incandescent bulbs, they should be allowed to get them at affordable prices. Let me tell you two stories about how incandescent bulbs are better than CFLs or LEDs.
My father and I used to work on cars together all year round including the winter. The trouble light we used had an incandescent 100W bulb. We used it for light AND heat! Anytime our hands got cold after gripping a freezing wrench, we would just place them around the light bulb and warm them up quickly. Now, the government is stepping in and telling me that they're smarter than me and that I need to use a CFL or LED bulb instead, which doesn't output nearly as much heat. So instead of having 1 power cord to deal under a freezing car, I am going to have to have 2; one for a light, and another for a heat source. LAME.
I know someone who replaced bulbs on a airport runways. The heat from incandescent bulbs is advantageous in street lights and runways in cold climate because the heat melts the snow which would obscure the light emitted from the bulb!
I am tired of the government pretending to be smarter than the invisible hand of the free market. Rand Paul talked about this. Search for: light bulbs rand paul congress.
If the police can encrypt their long distance radio transmissions, then we should be allowed to encrypt ours. If the police can video record you from their patrol car, then we should be allowed to video record them from ours.