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4081
« on: July 15, 2015, 06:04:10 PM »
And you have to fill out these policy gaps:
Taxation:
- A tax that should be raised: Consumption/sales tax.
- A tax that should be lowered: Income tax.
- A tax that should remain about the same: Gas tax (or environmental taxes for the UK)
- A new tax: A land value tax in urban areas.
- A tax that should be abolished: Corporate income tax.
Subsidies:
- A subsidy that should be raised: The Earned Income Tax credit.
- A subsidy that should be lowered: Mortgage interest/health insurance subsidy.
- A subsidy that should remain about the same: R&D tax credits.
- A new subsidy: Tax credits for private education.
- A subsidy that should be eliminated: Agricultural subsidies.
Area of expenditure:
- An expenditure category or program that should receive more funding: Probably R&D.
- An expenditure category or program that should receive less funding: The prison system.
- An expenditure category or program that is receiving about the right amount of funding: Defence.
- A new expenditure category or program: An nGDP futures market.
- An expenditure category or program that should be eliminated: NASA; transfer all funding to the NSF and eliminate funding for manned spaceflight out of Earth orbit.
I'm using "expenditure category or program" to be as broad as possible. "NASA" counts. "Defense" counts, as do subsets like "CIA" or "the F-35" or "$3,000 screwdrivers." "Health spending" counts, as do subsets of health like "Medicare" or "Medicare Part D" or "Medicare prescription drugs."
My own answers are mostly from a US perspective, since I'm more used to dealing with the American economy than any other.
4082
« on: July 15, 2015, 02:02:23 PM »
I was in the shop down the road earlier, and this big fat bitch comes waddling through the door. And I mean fat; if she were to lie down, there'd be space between the floor and the top of her legs. I noticed a little plastic fork in her one hand, and lo and behold she had a little box with a mound of kebab in from the local chippy. Jesus fucking Christ. Who just walks into a store with food? At least eat it outside. Before long, she was waddling down the aisles leaving other customers little room to breathe, let alone move. You could feel her footfalls; the shop felt like it was going to jump out of its foundations. Of course, she spent little time perusing the shop's wares--she knew exactly what she wanted. She bolted (at the pace of around a half a mile an hour) to the confectionery aisle. Either she's evolved a capacity to recognise and categorise chocolate at an astounding rate, or she entered the shop with her upcoming purchases in mind. She shovelled all manner of shit into her arms: big chocolate bars, meant for sharing; little chocolate bars for the quick "snack"; bags of assorted chocolates; white chocolate; milk chocolate. If you can name it, she'd probably picked up it. After grabbing all of her desired wares, she lumbers over to the till and dumps it all down in front of the cashier. A kindly old lady, with a look of terror and dread on her face. She clearly knew that the effort it would take to sort and scan all of this had a higher chance of killing her than winter ever did. The fat bitch, stood their wheezing like a dusty computer fan, continued to shovel her kebab into her mouth; I will never know how she managed to fit so much food onto such a tiny, plastic fork. But, God help her, she managed to finish the mound of food before the cashier had bagged all of her shit. She then proceeded to lick her kebab carton to make sure she didn't leave any mayonnaise behind, dropped it on the floor and then lumbered out of the shop with all her diabetes-causing, artery-clogging, non-vegan deathfoods. That fat girl was me, five years ago. Before I started buying and using SlimFast shortly after, because I'd looked in the mirror and realised I was ugly. Then I got fit, got ripped and now I prowl Sep7agon rating people on their appearance. I'm Jive Turkey, and that is my story.
4083
« on: July 15, 2015, 11:41:55 AM »
How the fuck is this even still going?
It's one thing to say "Yeah, it's not a big deal" and then another to defend a patently incorrect decision which (I would think) is bordering on unconstitutional. The government should have nothing to do with metaphysics or ontology or any of that shit, even if they're making no reference to a specific religion.
I mean, Jesus fucking Christ.
4084
« on: July 14, 2015, 10:17:01 PM »
Oh my God, he finished Freeman's Mind?
yeah man--part 68
unfortunately, the HL2 series is in limbo indefinitely
time to binge
4085
« on: July 14, 2015, 10:13:40 PM »
Oh my God, he finished Freeman's Mind?
4086
« on: July 14, 2015, 08:16:30 PM »
Why is psychology inferior to economics?
Why is economics nothing but badly applied psychology?
That's it, we're in a fight!
4087
« on: July 14, 2015, 08:02:55 PM »
Why is psychology inferior to economics?
4088
« on: July 14, 2015, 07:52:26 PM »
4089
« on: July 14, 2015, 07:17:21 PM »
4090
« on: July 14, 2015, 06:04:27 PM »
Shit makes no sense Turkey
It makes perfect sense. Sanders/Ben and Jerry are confusing corporate personhood with the Citizens United ruling.
4091
« on: July 14, 2015, 05:47:48 PM »
corporations can be sued and taxed
Just as a minor digression, this doesn't seem like a good thing. We know taxing corporations is a pretty awful idea, and I imagine suing them isn't as effective as suing the executives/shareholders.
4092
« on: July 14, 2015, 04:53:11 PM »
A comparison to the ever popular circumcision debates of Bungie comes to mind.
Unnecessary infant circumcision should be illegal. . . Period.
4093
« on: July 14, 2015, 04:45:35 PM »
4094
« on: July 14, 2015, 04:10:42 PM »
4095
« on: July 14, 2015, 03:57:04 PM »
4096
« on: July 14, 2015, 03:23:35 PM »
> Islam has brought nothing to western society
Is he talking modern or in general, because the Dark Ages were a thing, and the Middle East did a shit ton during that time, such as medicine and astronomy.
This is a good point but IIRC, Islam. . .or at least teachings of certain Islamic figures, is also largely the responsible for the end of that era of Arabic advancement.
Not really; that's like saying we owe the Big Bang to Catholicism.
4097
« on: July 14, 2015, 03:22:40 PM »
and the Middle East did a shit ton during that time, such as medicine and astronomy.
The Middle East is Islam?
4098
« on: July 14, 2015, 10:45:13 AM »
I don't know why Pick up a Qur'an and then pick up the Bible; the latter is massively thicker than the former. There's a lot less room to pick-and-choose in the Qur'an. Also there's the heightened cultural sensitivity to violence, what with having Mohammed as a leader and all. I hope Pat Condell treats Christians with the same level of prejudice and contempt as he does with Muslims. Why? The Pentateuch may be a disgustingly immoral book, but Jews aren't committing disgustingly immoral actions as Muslim fundamentalists are. There's nothing wrong with proportionality in condemnation.
4099
« on: July 14, 2015, 09:26:57 AM »
It's annoying me how everybody is accusing Cameron of running scared. Like, what the fuck? If losing a vote is just going to keep the status quo, and you're fairly certain you're gonna lose, don't fucking have the vote.
Other than that, it's good that it won't be repealed.
4100
« on: July 14, 2015, 09:06:07 AM »
I don't agree with everything this guy says, but I still fucking love him. Dude's hilarious.
4101
« on: July 14, 2015, 07:05:28 AM »
4102
« on: July 14, 2015, 06:34:40 AM »
sweden's fucked
4103
« on: July 14, 2015, 06:07:43 AM »
I'd wonder why the OP thought this thread was suitable for Serious.
I figured it belongs here due to it being a serious question and since you brought it up why did you think this thread was suitable for Serious?
Because gender-related threads belong here, as per the rules.
4104
« on: July 14, 2015, 06:06:09 AM »
Not everybody who murders is a psychopath.
Sure, but about 50pc of violent criminals in both the US and the UK have ASPD making them virtually untreatable. And I'm sure there are some non-psychopathic criminals who can't be rehabilitated either. I'm just saying rehabilitate the ones we can, and remove the ones we can't.
4105
« on: July 14, 2015, 06:00:22 AM »
But you said he shouldn't be punished. As in, not locking him up. I mean locking people up shouldn't been seen as a punishment. Prisons really ought to be more of a holding pen for the people too psychopathic/narcissistic/whatever to be rehabilitated. Like, obviously we need to do something with them, but I see no reason why locking them up has to be perceived as some kind of "punishment" in the pursuit of justice. Basically I think the concept of punishment has no place in ethics; the justice system should be concerned with reducing crime, either through deterrence or rehabilitation or whatever. But punishment for its own sake makes no sense. I don't want to "punish" tornadoes and earthquakes, but I'd lock them up too if I could. It's just the nature of the beast.
4106
« on: July 14, 2015, 05:56:01 AM »
It'd be like punishing a psychopath for going on a killing spree.
Uh
Yeah, lock the cunt up. Hell, kill him if you want. Stop him from killing. But punitive measures are just pointless. Punishment for the sake of punishment is sadistic, at best.
4108
« on: July 13, 2015, 07:30:51 PM »
It'd be like punishing a psychopath for going on a killing spree.
Like, y'know, he shouldn't have. But he's a psychopath. Except in this case you have the chance of stopping the offender from doing it again. It's the equivalent of hitting a bear for mauling a seal cub.
4109
« on: July 13, 2015, 07:10:22 PM »
It's you.
4110
« on: July 13, 2015, 07:07:20 PM »
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