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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The least politicial branch |
| Quantum_Wizard |
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 1:52 pm
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Comments: 160
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| I'm going to cut back on my participation here because I'm sick to death of killing myself to make reasonable arguments to mindless ideological zombies incapable of civil social behavior or rational introspection I don't know if this will allay your frustration, but I for one will lament your reduc... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The least politicial branch |
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:10 pm
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Comments: 160
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| And to the progressive crowd in general: Kindly explain to me how someone who pays no income taxes is paying their "fair share" of income taxes? If one's income is sufficiently low, then it's (IMHO) fair to have no income tax. However, it may be that, that level of income ought to be lowe... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The least politicial branch |
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:39 am
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Comments: 160
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| I'd still prefer to see a uniform Flat Tax assessed on income with no brackets, no deductions, no credits, and no games whatsoever. Why? Because that way everyone would pay their fair share . I maintain that, that isn't a "fair share". Let's look at the current system where in the USA we'... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The least politicial branch |
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:36 am
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Comments: 160
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| Prove it. The next bracket applies only to the extra income No, Andy, it doesn't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#Year_2012_income_brackets_and_tax_rates As an example, a single person earning $388,350 is to pay 33% which leaves them with a net of $260,194 A person earn... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Republican life support |
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:49 pm
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Comments: 86
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Teikiatsu wrote: They won't debate the cause of homosexuality (nature vs. nurture)
What's the point of politicians debating that? Does it have any policy implications? |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Republican life support |
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:18 pm
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Comments: 86
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Teikiatsu wrote: So long as libs and progs support the Man-Made Global Warming hoax, they have no solid foundation to attack the GOP from. You got things backwards here. It's the denial of anthropogenic global warming which is the less scientifically justifiable position. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Canada's latest conquest |
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:59 pm
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Comments: 9
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| Mine was a bit of a flippant reaction, I admit. I generalized the whole plan based on a couple of points I liked, Israel was responding to a very different economic and general situation than ours I guess I was being a bit flippant too, but I was also surprised since most items listed in the Wikipe... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Canada's latest conquest |
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 10:37 pm
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Comments: 9
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| I don't know about Israel using the dollar, but I think we would do well to imitate their 1985 economic stabilization plan . Including the parts such as wage controls negotiated with unions, price controls on various products imposed by the government, and devaluation of the currency followed by fi... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Canada's latest conquest |
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:04 pm
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Comments: 9
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BartSimpson wrote: Back in the 1970's, as I recall, Israel adopted the US dollar as its currency to get through a rough inflationary period with the shekel. Are you sure? I got curious and googled a bit, but I couldn't find anything about Israel adopting the US dollar. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Sick as a European economy |
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:16 pm
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Comments: 27
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| Norway avoided it - didn't beggar itself at all. I think this is in large part because Norway has 'sterilized' part of it's oil income. Basically they stash part of the income into a giant fund which invests outside Norway. Since that money doesn't enter Norway it doesn't affect the exchange rate (... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Sick as a European economy |
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:40 am
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Comments: 27
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| "Dutch Disease" may very well be an ignorant analysis, and certainly many observers have been quick to detail the ways in which a high "petro-dollar" is even helping the east more than hurting it. Yet the fact that the east has devised an attractive pseudo-scientific theory of r... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Dictator Dynasties |
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 5:03 am
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Comments: 131
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| Not true, hereditary leadership for monarchs in Europe was a very foreign concept for a very long time, only when the Romans pushed the idea on them did it start to take. True for the Roman Empire, but the Roman Republic was born out of a rebellion against a monarchy. And yet they maintained the ab... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: One big happy EU family |
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:20 pm
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Psudo wrote: When did the US default, andyt? I don't know that story. Here's one example from 1935. This probably the most recent one unless one considers the ending of the Bretton Woods system in 1979 a default.
I only found this through googling. I hadn't heard of it before. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Upcoming Republican slogans |
| Quantum_Wizard |
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:04 pm
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Comments: 68
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| The Tea Party and the current radical right are not conservatives. They are radicals. They seek radical change. And a radical is, by definition, mutually exclusive of a conservative. The word conservative has more than one meaning. When referring to a political ideology it is in no way mutually exc... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Harper's monarchist tail |
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 3:13 pm
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Comments: 14
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| Okay, I don't know phonetic spelling. She pronounces it in a way that sounds like an accent to my American ears, at least part of the way away from my pronunciation and JJ's. Are there three distinct pronunciations I should be listening for? Well, I for one hear a clear difference between her and J... |
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