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Lazarus Cooke wrote:
In article . net, rw wrote: Absolutely. I cannot figure out why people expect to get roads for free. They're built on land. Why don't people pay for them? They're not free. We do pay for them. Can't you read? Are you a ****ing moron? I'm not saying it's wrong - if that's what you want, you're free to go for it. You can vote for socialist roads, and State Parks, and Fly fishing, and healthcare, and school buses, and state control of farming, at the next election if you want. Thank you so very much for your expatriot permission. It's preposterous to call that "selective communism." Why? Because it is. -- Cut "to the chase" for my email address. |
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Lazarus Cooke wrote:
You pay for them through taxation. That's socialism. Very well. It's socialism. That's what we've chosen. So what? -- Cut "to the chase" for my email address. |
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Population genetics, Stevee, and you were the one who brought
it up, although you obviously didn't know it. Ken Fortenberry -- Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69 When the dawn came up like thunder http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm |
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Guys-N-Flyz wrote:
I know what you mean, *us* losers really oughta stick together. Them compassionate conservatives are still laughin' at *us*--hell, you can probably here Dave LaCourse all the way across the Us. That's the way politics works, Mark. We can either stick together and get at least some of what we hope for, or you can make a feel-good, narcissistic, self righteous statement of principle and get nothing. Politics is the art of the possible. -- Otto von Bismark -- -- Cut "to the chase" for my email address. |
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![]() "Lazarus Cooke" wrote in message Taking your libertarian position to its logical conclusion, we should privatize all our roads so they could become private toll roads. Absolutely. I cannot figure out why people expect to get roads for free. They're built on land. Why don't people pay for them? Well actually we do through our gas taxes, or at least that's where they say the monies are supposed to be going? Mark Lazarus |
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![]() Hm........ Without a doubt, the clearest statement of what you have to say that you have yet made in this group. Wolfgang keep up the good work. |
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![]() "Lazarus Cooke" wrote in message You pay for them through taxation. That's socialism. If paying taxes is a form of socialism, then, most likely, every state on the planet is that of a socialist regime. Though I believe you are merely yankin' rw's chain--which isn't necessarily a bad thing--the idea that taxation constitutes socialism is absurd, IMMHO. I mean, if the monies collected from fuel taxation is used exclusively for the construction of roads and no other general funds go to pay for road construction and I don't purchase fuel of any kind, then I don't pay for the construction of roads even though I may use those same roads. Mark |
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![]() "Lazarus Cooke" wrote in message You pay for them through taxation. That's socialism. If paying taxes is a form of socialism, then, most likely, every state on the planet is that of a socialist regime. Though I believe you are merely yankin' rw's chain--which isn't necessarily a bad thing--the idea that taxation constitutes socialism is absurd, IMMHO. I mean, if the monies collected from fuel taxation is used exclusively for the construction of roads and no other general funds go to pay for road construction and I don't purchase fuel of any kind, then I don't pay for the construction of roads even though I may use those same roads. Mark |
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![]() "rw" wrote in message ink.net... Politics is the art of the possible. -- Otto von Bismark -- Oh yeah! I believe that I would have researched a bit more, before quoting someone who disproved my point entirely. "Internally, he was concerned about the emergence of two new parties: the Catholic Centre Party and the Social Democratic Party. The campaign against Catholicism that started in 1872, called Kulturkampf, was largely a failure. He attacked the Social Democrats in two ways: the party and its organizations were outlawed, while the working class was appeased with (very progressive) legislation guaranteeing accident and health insurance as well as old-age pensions. In the elections of 1890, both the Catholic Centre and the Social Democrats made great gains, and Bismarck resigned at the insistence of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who had risen to the throne in 1888. Bismarck spent his last years gathering his memoirs (Gedanken und Erinnerungen; "Thoughts and Memories"), and died at 83 years of age in 1898, in Friedrichsruh." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck) Mark |
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![]() "Guys-N-Flyz" wrote You stick with the status quo and I will fight for something better--who knows, a politicall party might just come along ............. One thing that resulted from this election is that I too am tired of voting for the least crappy one I will not vote for a third party in any circumstance such as this year, where the badder guy is so ****ing bad it makes ya puke, but I am going to expend my "disposable political energy" on trying to get more people interested in instant runoff elections I think it is a system that most people can easily see the advantages of and though it won't change any outcomes, at least directly and at first, it can let each voter more accurately express his concerns and hopes via third party canidates that would, therefore have more direct meaning than in the sad and sick two party system. It's use is supported by the Green Party in this country, but it is NOT a new idea. It was used in San Francisco this election http://www.instantrunoff.com/faq.asp |
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