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chknltl

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9. Agreed! America needs to have this debate.

Thu Jul 26, 2012, 03:16 PM

Jul 2012

Two infrastructure examples:

When the fire department comes to my house, there is no need to bring more than a couple of trucks, maybe another for backup. Putting out a full blown fire on a McMansion can take a few more fire trucks. If the McMansion owner has a large corporation, and should that catch fire it might take in more than a few fire departments just to contain the blaze!

We should not pay the same in taxes for what amounts to be unequal protection. He gets much more from the commons than I, he should pay much more for that.

Although my tax dollars go to keeping a navy out there to keep our shipping lanes open, I profit only in what I am able to purchase by doing this. The corporatist importers and exporters profit much much more than I by our tax dollars being spent this way. They should be spending much more of a percentage of what they profit in taxes in order to reap those increased profits.

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Let me say it again, "No, assholes, you didn't build it by yourself." [View all] kentuck Jul 2012 OP

Newton, Leibniz, Archimedes, Socrates... Gregorian Jul 2012 #1

Who taught Socrates how to read?? kentuck Jul 2012 #2

We're in this together. I think that's at the heart of what Republicans don't like to admit. Gregorian Jul 2012 #4

And this is why they think they should be taxed less on capital gains... kentuck Jul 2012 #5

Very sound statement... MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #37

Don't forget biological Eve, and I believe that she wasn't Anglo-Saxon, either. grantcart Jul 2012 #11

what else to say? Simple: "I will derive!" Pholus Jul 2012 #27

Haha. I love it. But integration is where it's at. Gregorian Jul 2012 #32

VERY nice.... Pholus Jul 2012 #38

Let's not forget the spouse nichomachus Jul 2012 #3

The fact that American society and goverment celebrate and protect private affluence.... YoungDemCA Jul 2012 #6

In America, everyone inherently has access to public education, roads, financial assistence, etc... OneTenthofOnePercent Jul 2012 #7

A lot of it is luck and probability... YoungDemCA Jul 2012 #8

"...using the building blocks of society..." kentuck Jul 2012 #12

Agreed! America needs to have this debate. chknltl Jul 2012 #9

the government MrDiaz Jul 2012 #10

Not sure if serious YoungDemCA Jul 2012 #15

A woman I know posted that BS Patiod Jul 2012 #13

Is there a difference between taking advantage of something that was available to all hughee99 Jul 2012 #14

+1 I think the President's remarks were ill-advised. When he said: SlimJimmy Jul 2012 #16

I agree. I think there was probably a much better way to make the same point. hughee99 Jul 2012 #17

I think some were probably alienated... kentuck Jul 2012 #19

Not some, many. SlimJimmy Jul 2012 #25

Yes, many... kentuck Jul 2012 #26

Do you think everyone is capable of opening and running a small business? Do you think it takes SlimJimmy Jul 2012 #28

A lot of luck is involved... kentuck Jul 2012 #30

It reminds me of the old saying: SlimJimmy Jul 2012 #31

Some work hard and some have hard workers... kentuck Jul 2012 #33

Two words: Sole Proprietorship. SlimJimmy Jul 2012 #34

How is it denigrating to tell the truth about them? kentuck Jul 2012 #39

That's right they *hired* someone do help them. In other words, they used their own SlimJimmy Jul 2012 #44

80% who fail Hydra Jul 2012 #41

Most small businesses fail because the owner did not know enough about the business, SlimJimmy Jul 2012 #45

Can you provide a link to his speech where he said those things? savalez Jul 2012 #22

You can't be serious. It's been widely played on nearly every MSN newscast since the speech. SlimJimmy Jul 2012 #24

A simple link would have sufficed. savalez Jul 2012 #46

The SBA guarantees $12 Billion in loans to small businesses every year..... nt Bigmack Jul 2012 #18

One Percenters: PLEASE, please Go Galt on Us Iggy Jul 2012 #20

Goes to the CORE misconception of pre-Wittgenstein Western thought.... Junkdrawer Jul 2012 #21

And the people who mined the precious minerals from other continents (often times at gunpoint)... drokhole Jul 2012 #23

Just look at history, the Louisiana Purchase and the Transcontinental Railroad all paid government $ kemah Jul 2012 #29

heck, they just fund it fascisthunter Jul 2012 #35

Why are you twisting the Presidents words? Zax2me Jul 2012 #36

You are correct that the President was talking about roads and bridges... kentuck Jul 2012 #42

We are all connected. Something the Republicans never want to acknowledge. LuckyLib Jul 2012 #40

Jobs and Wozniak, Hewlett and Packard, all drove on highways, I'm sure. Nye Bevan Jul 2012 #43