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  • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 7: Workers of the world unite!

    Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
    We do want government, private sector and the people to be in balance. I believe they largely are. Cooperation between the three is just as critical. As I've said before, the balance and cooperation between the three here in Minnesota is one reason why the state works so well.
    They're not even close. 20 trillion going on 33 trillion.
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    • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 7: Workers of the world unite!

      Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
      Unfettered capitalism is as dangerous as unfettered government. The trick is to balance the two. And there is only one party interested in doing that.
      Nailed it. Wow, a rational post from Scooby.

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      • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 7: Workers of the world unite!

        Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
        They're not even close. 20 trillion going on 33 trillion.
        The amount stolen by the banksters in 2006 dwarfs that. They have more than $20T hidden offshore alone. God knows what the real amount is. The combined wealth of everyone in the world is about $250T, and the 1% control half of it.

        So assume they stole half their net worth: the difference between the 1% controlling 25% and 50% of the world's assets.

        That's about $60T.

        Pay up.
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        • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
          The amount stolen by the banksters in 2006 dwarfs that. They have more than $20T hidden offshore alone. God knows what the real amount is. The combined wealth of everyone in the world is about $250T, and the 1% control half of it.

          So assume they stole half their net worth: the difference between the 1% controlling 25% and 50% of the world's assets.

          That's about $60T.

          Pay up.
          Good
          Cause in 20 months you’ll have enough to pass and override tD veto.

          Giddy up!

          No excuses
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          • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 7: Workers of the world unite!

            Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
            Good
            Cause in 20 months you’ll have enough to pass and override tD veto.

            Giddy up!

            No excuses
            2004 called. It reminded us that even a complete trainwreck gets a ton of support when it floats on a sea of Koch money.

            But there is Churchill's hope that America can be counted upon to do the right thing after exhausting all possible alternatives. Dumpy certainly seems to be The Last Worst Choice.
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            • Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
              Amazing what happens when you use bureaucracy to force out your competition, like subsidizing $1.46 for every piece of mail.
              The post office is explicitly provided for in the Constitution. I thought you were all for the Constitution?


              It's problem isn't that it's a government agency, but that half of its board of governors, aka Congress, hamstring it as talking points to rubes like you.

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              • Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                Good
                Cause in 20 months you’ll have enough to pass and override tD veto.

                Giddy up!

                No excuses
                It is impossible to get a veto proof majority in the Senate absent a wave of special elections.

                The dems could win every seat on the ballot this November and that would only get them to 58 seats. That's not even filibuster proof, let alone veto proof.

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                • Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                  Company towns?

                  Do they still exist in the US? Finland?
                  Hershey, PA is close.

                  Colorado Springs, CO in a tangential way.
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                  • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 7: Workers of the world unite!

                    Originally posted by unofan View Post
                    It is impossible to get a veto proof majority in the Senate absent a wave of special elections.

                    The dems could win every seat on the ballot this November and that would only get them to 58 seats. That's not even filibuster proof, let alone veto proof.
                    not expecting even a single party switcher like ben nighthorse campbell or whatnot?
                    a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                    • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 7: Workers of the world unite!

                      Originally posted by joecct View Post
                      Hershey, PA is close.

                      Colorado Springs, CO in a tangential way.
                      at least hershey has a casino for the unwashed to become rich
                      a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                      • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 7: Workers of the world unite!

                        Originally posted by unofan View Post
                        The post office is explicitly provided for in the Constitution. I thought you were all for the Constitution?


                        It's problem isn't that it's a government agency, but that half of its board of governors, aka Congress, hamstring it as talking points to rubes like you.
                        I’ve never understood why the post office somehow needs to run a surplus. Does the FBI? Does the White House? What about Congress?
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                        • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 7: Workers of the world unite!

                          Originally posted by joecct View Post
                          Hershey, PA is close.

                          Colorado Springs, CO in a tangential way.
                          Mega-Church town?

                          Seattle used to be owned by Boeing but outgrew them. Same with Youngstown/US Steel, Johnstown/US Steel, Goodyear/Akron.

                          Atlanta is divided up between Delta and Coke.

                          Memphis is all but owned by FedEx IINM.

                          There are lots of mining towns out west that are run by the mining company. Some of those towns are even named after the company and/or the resource mined.
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                          • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 7: Workers of the world unite!

                            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                            I’ve never understood why the post office somehow needs to run a surplus. Does the FBI? Does the White House? What about Congress?
                            just what in the blue he!! makes you think you can just waltz in here and present a rational argument!?!?! hmm?!?!!!!
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                            • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                              LOL. You're so brainwashed.

                              For the record:

                              1. We have overlords now, you sad, silly sap. I want to get rid of the overlords. I want people freed from need so they can tell any would-be overlord to f-ck himself.

                              2. I want private ownership. I just want a salary cap.

                              3. I want all the good things we can get our hands on. I just think that if the price of allowing someone their 30th house is that 3 million people don't get any house then that price is too high.

                              4. I'm not eliminating work or income or property. I'm making them non-mandatory to exist. We've already done precisely the same thing in a small and insufficient way with unemployment insurance and welfare and health insurance. I'm just raising the amount to cover a decent existence, and also covering things like education which allow you to grow even more free and, incidentally, more productive.

                              The thing dupes like Flag will never understand is I loathe the collective and extol individuality more than anybody on the so-called "libertarian" right. I just recognize that allowing a handful of obscenely wealthy individuals their complete freedom curses the vast majority of other individuals to no freedom at all. If you care about personal freedom you should create a dignified floor that all of humanity stands on where they are free enough to take it from there themselves. Only the relentless propaganda of the last several centuries has made weak minds equate that impulse with being against freedom and individuality.
                              1. Yep. We do of every political stripe.
                              2. Yes and No. If I am better than you in something, I should make more. However, obscene differences are, well, obscene.
                              3. The Red/Green Tax Act would have ended that. Flippers, who distort the real estate market, need to be strictly regulated.
                              4. Sounds like everyone gets a participation trophy. Why compete if you don't have to?

                              I don't mind wealthy people. What they do with that wealth is what is important. One mansion and a yacht is enough.

                              BTW, the latest Lazlo missive is right up your alley.
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                              • Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 7: Workers of the world unite!

                                Originally posted by joecct View Post
                                Hershey, PA is close.

                                Colorado Springs, CO in a tangential way.
                                Colorado Springs is a military town if anything. Mega churches/moral whacktivists would be a very distant 2nd.

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