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Recent content by Amiga1200

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    What morals should the United States hold in international conflicts?

    Quite simple: If the projected number of dead (mostly brown) people in other nations from our military actions in preventing "terrorism" is larger than the number of projected deaths from terrorism on our soil... then we shouldn't engage in it. The life of an American is no more sacred than...
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    Definitions of Sex and/or Gender (Transsexualism)

    First, only three stars? :(. I'll have to try harder next thread I create on whatever topic. No, I didn't mean to imply that any of these people were homosexual, but Barbin (for example) was attracted to women (thus implying the rather obvious correlation between sexual orientation and some...
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    Definitions of Sex and/or Gender (Transsexualism)

    Well, he (David) only started outwardly identifying as male once his parents told him, but his actions and social tendencies were exceedingly male/masculine (even beyond tomboy standards) and he was called "caveman" by his classmates before he even knew anything from his parents. So I don't...
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    American Indian reservations.

    You can't apply a doctrine that is only conceived of by your culture, with the subjective values (obviously) biasing one in favor of that culture in order to take land by force. And, your use of "terra nullis" as a is an anachronistic backwards-engineered justification in in the extreme...
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    American Indian reservations.

    The only real solution is to travel back in time in order to line up on the shores of Hispaniola in 1492 and on Plymouth Rock in 1620 with some modern laser weapons and some crazy pyrotechnics (maybe a horror movie on a giant screen) and scare the Europeans into never trying to come back here...
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    Obama is Incompetent

    I'm sorry - I stopped taking your rebuttal to my post seriously when you chastised Obama for not cutting spending by 30% in a recession (i.e. to magically and instantly match reduced tax revenues) where the demand side that actually drives business (in the real world) was appallingly lacking in...
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    No way to run a household or a country

    Did you read that link I sent???? Did you read your own stats? Yes, RAW Tax revenue will grow even in a moderate downturn (due to population increases and inflation), and will also grow in a stagnant economy with small decreases in taxation (due to the same factors). I pointed out, in great...
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    No way to run a household or a country

    Yes, there is one prominent study that concluded a 32-35% rate in 1996... but thats what Bush tried and it decreased revenues substantially compared to Clinton, and that study was a notable outlier anyway. And, yes, that is the opposite point. Most notably, it involves the velocity of money...
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    Obama is Incompetent

    Ummm, you are including the 2009 fiscal year budget passed under Bush in your calculations. Please don't do that if not being disingenuous. Second, much of the debt that Obama has actually accrued originated in policies continued from Bush, including those he tried very hard to end (like the...
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    No way to run a household or a country

    Laffer curve : The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Indicating an optimum level around 70%) ScienceDirect - Journal of Monetary Economics : Tax rates and tax revenues in a model of growth through human capital accumulation (Just an abstract, but indicates an optimal level around 65%)...
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    Definitions of Sex and/or Gender (Transsexualism)

    Well, all of these changes take place on a state level actually. The proposed changes have already gone into effect on the federal level for both passports and CRBAs (which are birth certificates for American citizens born to American parents while overseas). The rest must be resolved on the...
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    American Indian reservations.

    By introducing alcohol and fast food onto reservations, we have the insulin-free blood of an unbelievable diabetes epidemic on our hands. But I think its less than the least we can do, given that some Native American reservations in South Dakota have life expectancies of 57, with full...
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    Laws pertaining to sex offenders

    Yeah, I definitely agree. I'm sad that you changed your quote, though. For one, that Monty Python sketch is the only mainstream usage of the my favorite ideal form of government (anarcho-communism, hence Kropotkin). And two, it makes me assume that you are a moderate-liberal who is getting...
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    No way to run a household or a country

    You are right. That's why, adjusted for population growth and inflation, tax revenues increased at the lowest rate under Reagan than any other 8 year period going back to 1950. Even the doldrums from 1972-1980 resulted in a 24% increase adjusted for those variables. It was 17% under Reagan as...
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    Definitions of Sex and/or Gender (Transsexualism)

    Yes, but even in this post you seem to be implying that someone somewhere would jump through these hoops for a long period of time to possibly avoid taxes, criminal charges, etc... And must convince a psychiatrist and a doctor that it's not feigned. Now, perhaps once in a million there might...
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