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by newbie12 14y ago
I'm guessing you are from a part of the world that is/was recently totalitarian. The community of people is far, far more than the State. Cultural/religious norms shape the State and the rules. If corruption is tolerated, for example, it
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Saverin's exit is a warning sign, a symptom of a growing sickness in America. All of the envious, hateful attacks on the "top 1%" and the likely prospect of punitive new taxes to support our out-of-control entitlement state make entreprene
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by newbie12 14y ago
Congress can't outlaw lobbying, it is a core Constitutional right (free speech, right to assemble, right to petition govt). The problem is that the government is too big and has too much power, so the rewards for lobbying are so great.
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You don't have to tip at all if you get poor service.
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To the degree I am privileged as a Westerner is not the result of luck or exploitation. It is the result of a very specific tradition of rights and governance. My obligation is to fight to protect and continue that tradition.
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The politicians' "make it do everything" mantra is the same reason the space shuttle was a disastrous, budget-consuming failure.
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The holocaust in Cambodia committed by the Khmer communists was one direct result of our failure in Vietnam. And it took the fall of the Berlin Wall and the broad collapse of communist ideology in the 1990s before Vietnam began to liberali
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by newbie12 14y ago
You are badly misinformed. There is no trust fund, only government IOUs to itself. The program already requires revenues from the general Treasury, and the accounting collapse of the fictional trust fund is now in 2020, not the 2030s. ht
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One reason CEOs are well-paid is so that all of the middle managers will strive harder in hopes of having the job someday. Another is that our corporate governance/capital markets aren't that competitive and lousy managers can insulate the
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Milken is an interesting case. He literally created the market for high yield ("junk") bonds, and a lot of the charges the feds threw at him were because creating a new market meant breaking stupid regulations about yields and such.
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There is no such thing as taxing a "corporation." Corporations are owned by shareholders, and those shareholders pay taxes on the money they invest and in-turn on the gains from that investment. Taxing corporation profits is double-taxati
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Your site violates Twitter's trademark. You need a different name...
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You are making the market/future for 3d printing.
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Wow. These chargers may literally kill you. Where are U.S. regulators? Where the heck is eBay?
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Apple, as a corporation, should pay ZERO taxes. The resources invested in Apple were taxed before invested, and will be taxed again when investors realize their capital or income gains. Corporate taxes are double taxation. It is Apple's m
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Check out http://www.taskrabbit.com/ for more cities.
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That's exactly how the system was designed to work-- a feature, not a bug, to let hot issues simmer down before passage.
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Yelp accused of extortion in Chicago: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/02/27/2-investigators-busin...
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by newbie12 15y ago
Money is just a representation of work...it is a means of storing and exchanging things with one another.
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There was far less crime in America before the War on Poverty dramatically expanded the social safety net in the 1960s. America has a significant anti-poverty safety net -- welfare payments, food stamps, Medicaid health care, public housing
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The federal government forces Florida to spend billions on Medicaid. Mandatory Medicaid increases are driving education cuts in budgets in nearly every state. "Governments’ general support for higher education 25 years ago was nearly 50 pe