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Here's an objective question that a truly neutral party on the "outside" of the debate would ask: "If someone disregards scientific research on the grounds of it providing self-fulfilling needs and whatever other reasons that seem fit when they don't agree with the results of that research, why...

Just to point something out - the quote above does not address the issue of the rate of decline of the glaciers. That is just as important as the absolute mass at this given time and worthy of research.

Understood - and anyone with an ounce of intelligence would agree with your point there. However, this whole thread is centered around personal income taxes. I understand the two become intertwined when an entrepreneur like him decides to not pull in a salary for some period of time due to...

I don't think you can simply add the 35% and 15% in that case since they are percentages of different chunks of the total amount... but you're point still stands, and understood. I think your example of your millionaire friend might do more to support my argument here. The reason he doesn't...

Well said, Terry.

Thanks, and I don't mean this in any bad way, but that didn't help. I am all for a simple tax system (as I'm sure pretty much every one is, much to some peoples' chagrin), however I am not convinced that it should be absolutely flat across the entire board. Percentage is percentage, but you...

Brushed motors, laser printers...

Question for you entrepreneurs out there. When companies claim X% total taxes paid, how easy is it, whether by accident or not, to include the taxes withheld from employee paychecks? If an employer makes a statement that his company pays, say 45% in taxes, what in reality does it actually...

Disproportionate taxes is not the fix to the root problem, I know, but playing the devil's advocate here, there are other things that are not tiered. Health insurance is one, and the chunk of money that takes out of a bottom wage earner's paycheck is a much higher percentage than what comes out...

Not a drift at all, an example. You choose to avoid it because you see the fallacy in your argument. Who brought up the $640 toilet seat? Do you see the trend here yet Bob? Woah, what a bold statement. And you accuse the left of not providing examples. I have, although I was accused of thread...

Bob - the one thing your great at is being absolutely clueless to what people are talking about. You have one specific thought so high on your mind's priority list that nothing else is even on your radar. I'll say this again since it's YOU who can't seem to focus: "Why do you have to label...

Bob, really, where do you get this stuff?

You seem to work in absolutes. Some of us are rational and reasonable. It's no wonder you miss the meaning of a simple statement - you immediately take it to it's unrealistic extreme and claim the whole argument is baseless. Your world must be so easy... <sigh>.

Quit whining, please. Why do you have to label liberals as having that mentality when conservatives do it too? It's a human trait, not a liberal one. Once again, YOU (and others like you) are the reason why there is a divide in this country. Pay attention.

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Re: "One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else sh What is that supposed that mean? The Italian half of my family is Sicilian too.

...... Sorry, edited because I originally wrote a response thinking you were saying something else.

Re: "One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else sh We did not "come to a point in history." We created it. It can be reconciled. We don't need a leader to do it. I'm sorry, but your's is a very pathetic sounding view.

I don't think he meant natural selection on an evolutionary level of live or die, I think he meant the natural selection in society of those who choose to immigrate to another country and put forth the effort it takes to become part of that society. Africans were forced out of their...

Re: "One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else sh Well, the key phrase here is believes to be the truth.