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blackspade

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41. Good point.

Reply to calimary (Reply #34)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 05:24 AM

Nov 2013

Maybe we should have a war tax, where the rich pay for it.
After all If the poor have to fight it, they the rich can pay for it.
We all have to have skin in the game, right...right?

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Well, what I'd say then is - "okay, fine, then! YOU GUYS GO FIRST!!!!" calimary Nov 2013 #13

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Then the proper response is: "YOU FIRST!!!!" calimary Nov 2013 #33

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Well, then that's when we should start getting LOUDER: "You FIRST!" calimary Nov 2013 #34

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