If you had to pick just ONE...

[DontTreadOnMe]

I know there is plenty of room for outrage, but let's just play a game where you had to pick which one is worse:

Exhibit A:
A 2012 report by the Tax Justice Network (TJN) found that untaxed wealth invested in offshore tax havens ran between $28 and $32 trillion dollars, equal to two years’ worth of U.S. economic output. The report estimated that if the money were to have been invested in home countries, even at low rates of return, it could have generated hundreds of billions of dollars per year in tax revenue.

Exhibit B:
NSA Surveillance Violates The Constitution. The NSA's massive new $2bn data center in Utah - built to spy on every American. Concerns over government Tyranny are legitimate.

Which Exhibit above concerns you more personally?

[beevul]

1. B n/t

[Egalitarian Thug]

2. Completely specious since neither has any chance whatsoever of happening.

[DontTreadOnMe]

5. Thank you for playing, no prize has been awarded for your lack of answer.

eom

[Egalitarian Thug]

8. Show me an actual question of any relevance whatsoever and I'm happy to play.

this is nothing but a masturbatory waste of bandwidth. Here's another kick.

Let's see how many dimwits you can suck in...

[DontTreadOnMe]

10. Do you currently own a cellphone or have filed a tax return for last year?

If you answered yes to either one, then the two Exhibits in the original game affect you.

You can pretend they don't, and then after completing your masturbation, you can go back to the original post and play again.

[Egalitarian Thug]

15. Keep spanking that monkey. I forgot more about databases and how much can be

gleaned from disparate, anonymous data a decade ago than you'll ever be allowed to know, especially if you work in the field.

The only people that could do anything about the trillions of USD sucked away and hidden off-shore to avoid paying what they owe are people that set up the system to accomplish just that.

So, your question has all the merit and relevance of a dust mite asking asking a small group of papilloma whether they prefer the elephant they all live on take a dust bath or walk into the river.

[DontTreadOnMe]

19. How many NSA programs could you build with the total tax avoidance dollars?

I see your trillion, and raise you three trillion!

[BainsBane]

3. gun proliferation and gun violence

Honestly, I worry more about 38,000 gun homicides a year than anything else. It's not that other issues aren't important, but guns are far more deadly. It also affects me personally, while the other two are more abstract.

[DontTreadOnMe]

4. "where you had to pick which one"

go back to step one and read the directions again. There are only two choices. There is no C: Fill in the blank.

But I do agree that gun proliferation is a HUGE problem in our country. In my Top 10 List of issues that need to be addressed NOW.

[BainsBane]

7. I'm not agreeing to your choices

I gave you mine.

[DontTreadOnMe]

9. you cheated

but I will give you extra credit for trying

[NYC_SKP]

6. A

A helps make B possible, though each feeds off the other.

I would like my fair share of wealth and power.

[pscot]

11. Sorry, wealth and power are already bespoke

You're just going to have to be satisfied with getting your fair share of abuse, like the rest of us.

[stevenleser]

12. A. nt

[LittleBlue]

13. B. nt

[uppityperson]

14. Multi-task. Would you rather slide down a 50 ft razor blade with

no pants on or suck the snot out of a dog's nose until its head collapsed?

[DontTreadOnMe]

16. I'll take the dog snot for $100

oh wait, wrong game...

[duuser5822]

17. I pick A

Both are equally bad, though, in my opinion.

[BlueJazz]

18. A.... from a dimwit

[Notafraidtoo]

20. For now i take..

A. For now its the biggest threat to our Democracy and future as a nation.

But- B.Will continue to grow like a weed until it too permanently cripples our Democracy, one glimmer of hope is the Patriot act isn't supposed to be permanent because even those who use it know how shitty it is. But now we got Democrats and Republicans supporting it for those illusions of safety, sad days indeed.


How many Illusions of safety in the future will we support?