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I'm going with a sales/consumption tax, or maybe tarrifs(assuming they arent enacted specifically for protectionist purposes). Taxes that discouage consumption and encourage savings/investment are almost always prefered to income or capital gains taxes
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I seem to remember a while back there was a good bit of outrage over some small town that passed a law allowing firearms to be carried into bars. While I can understand concerns about mixing alchocal and firearms.....my first thought was 'Why dont bars already prohibit them?'
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I'm pretty sure the empire wasnt actively looking for Kenobi the way the US was actively looking for Bin Ladin.
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I believe it was Santorum (?) that dissapointed me the most. (The guy standing next to Gary Johnson.) He managed to wriggle out of that feminism quote fairly but somehow he just came off like a bigot. Yea, I the feminism question was the only one he gave a decent answer to imo. Otherwise he comes accross as another pro-war social conservitive, which
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I'm not too surprised its falling some. Since 2008 I'v been thinking it would rise substationally, fall some, and then 'settle' somewhere between where it was and where it peaked.
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Almost every major medical/drug advance in the past 50 years has come from the US. I could be a coincidence, but I suspect it has to do with the fact that we still have a semi-free healthcare system that allows for a certain level of profit and loss.
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The growth after the war was due to the fact that the US won without suffering substantial property losses. That and the fact that Truman removed many of hte wartime/New Deal government programs that had been hindering the economy for the entire previous decade...
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I actually liked the first one more, the music was a lot catchier, and it delt more with specifics on the theory.
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I already made a topic abnout this
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Take the water fluoridation as an example, you pointed out that conspiracy theorists think that there is a global conspiracy to put a poison in the water. In reality water fluoridation is a serious topic, where countries have banned it ( 1 )( 2 ) and books have been written on the subject etc. But thinking that there is a global concerted effort to