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This doublepost brought to you by my 3rd point. Darn mice.

3 things.

1) Weapons don't kill people, people kill people.

2) Religion is a weapon.

3) Calhoun's mouse experiment.

'nuff said.

XKCD, Goblins, and... Oglaf?

Seems to be the top 3 Bay12.

You guys are wierd.

I sometimes read Dominic Deegan, and the top 3, and some sluggy too.

I do think green checkmarks are better, but if there's one thing the yellow ribbon campaign taught me, it's that "awareness drives" often become worthless quickly.

Cymbalta's campaign seems more effective than black x though.
Depression hurts, stick-figured people get haunted by black scribbles.

Pretty simple.

Someone please refresh my memory, where and when did I say that the tax code doesn't distingush?

I talked about taxing income, where the hell did old/new money come from?

For the record, I don't care when a coin was minted or a bill printed. If you save it it isn't my business, but when you first get it, you gotta give a fair and equitable cut to the government on par with what else you are making. Got a million dollars and earned a penny? Give them fractions of a penny up. Got a penny and earned a million dollars? Give them fractions of a million up.
As for paying because the rich leave... Happily. In a heartbeat.

And... Lack of minimum wage law is like sports without drug testing. If you don't know why that's a bad thing, you got a lot to learn.

Either way, religious texts don't feed bellies, only wars. Food stamps is worth the top 10 NGOs. Prove otherwise.

I'm starting a new movement.

Mark a Black X on you on 12/12/2012 if you wish you were a pirate or a ninja, but not the crappy sort, only the cool sort that doesn't exist in reality.

Ask everyone you see with an X "Pirate or Ninja?"

it'll be awesome! And do much better for depressed people than this other thing that's trying to hijack this black x day from piraty ninjaness.

Also, inb4someone asks a Randian question.

Okay, all my joking aside...


First of all, you want an example of what "Private Charities" do when government gets out of the way? Plenty of examples in Africa!
Some stellar examples there. Of paticular note is the gift of books to starving people and the requirement of conversion to their religion for any aid.
Yea, private charities? To hell with that, I'd rather have half my barely over minimum wage check be taken. It could be the next Stephen Hawking being fed only with foodstamps right now. Will voluntarilly provide it? Nope. I could use that money for purposes of greater immediate benefit to me. I do provide to charities, but nowhere near what the government does in my name. People don't have to starve because of it. You honestly think YOU, person about to argue with me, that you are any different? That without the government you'd pay the same or more to a charity that helps as free of conditions as the Government? Or maybe you think Bibles are tasty.

Now, the other thing... Rich people and taxation. I personally don't advocate taxing assets more, and nobody is. Farmers are usually multi-millionares on paper, and barely making it in reality.
No, what you are seeing here is advocacy of increased taxation on rich income. Capital Gains, regular income, other income sources. If you are making $250,000 a year, your problems aren't managing less than $500 in savings to protect a person who is in an unstable job and helping a unemployed sister and brother and nephews eat. Your problems are keeping your relatives from abusing you and taking another $500 that week to gamble with.
Why do I know this? I make less than $40000 a year. Supporting my family while  protecting another person is my burden, but that other person's unstable job is employed as a caretaker for someone earning about $155000 a year(by my best guess based on the assets they talk about infront of that other person, which they do freely.)
When people talk about how unfair it is to tax the rich, I remember that Capital Gains are taxed lower than my income. If the rich can't stand a little more taxes, they can afford an airplane ticket out. I can't. So yea, it's not about assets, but income.