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Can anyone find the most detailed and descriptive chart/table of the federal goverment's budget? All I can find are pie charts with general percentages, but I'd like to see one that tells exactly how much we spend on SSI, cash welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, etc. specifically.
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I know Ron Paul has mentioned support of this sort of proposal before, but I wasn't really able to find much else on this idea. Has there been any thought given to promotion of a "Private option" for government? That is, people voluntarily giving up their "protections" like police...
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Where in the internet do you suggest me to debate?
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I've re-read Walter Block's paper on libertarian punishment theory and I believe he gave a talk which I don't recall what it was called but it's somewhere in the archive, so I am basing my question around the discussion there. Block's approach to the sort of ethics of liberty - specifically...
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I am currently taking a class entitled "Politics of the Global Economy," and today we had a class discussion of the ethics/morality/solutions to sweatshops in undeveloped countries. Thus far in my life, I have only ever added menial tidbits to such discussions, but today I jumped in with my...
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Let me know if someone has already made this argument. Premise (A): It is better (economically and ethically) for someone to work at a given wage, than not to work. For example, if welfare is the equivelent of making, say, $5/h @ 40h/week, it is economically better for a person to work for the same wage...
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I recently read parts of a book called Nickel and Dimed. In case you don't know, it is about a reporter who voluntarily tried to take on low-paying jobs and restrict her income to the wage. In the book, she describes how hard even the low paying jobs are, and how hard it is to match income and expenses...
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[quote user="Libertas est Veritas"]I keep running into leftists who think of the Scandinavian welfare model as some holy grail. That everything would be ok if only their country would adopt the way Norway/Sweden/Denmark/Finland (well, Finland is technically a part of Fennoscandia and doesn't...
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I used to be a neo-conservative in that I supported most of what the Bush administration was doing. Although I was also a big fan of Michael Savage and rejected some of the things the neo-cons were touting such as their stance on the Iraq War because I didn't think they went far enough in their efforts...
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Trianglechoke7 , I have not read the other posts in this thread, so if what I say has already been addressed, I apologise. This "solution" would be far, far worse than what we have now (not that this is any defense, of course, of what we have now). Under your "solution," you remove...