Reply #12: When you compare

[Nicholas_J]

The total gross domestic product, and then compare the percentage that the government portion of GPD is compared to that of every other European nation, you realize that all of the BS about BIG government in the U.S. is just comservative B.S. The fact is that the rich are a greedy bunnh of son of a bitches who cannot bear to see one cent anywhere that is not in their control and at their personal disposal.

I personally preferred the bolshevik solution for dealing with such creatures, but these are daintier times.

One of the primary ways we could get rid of environmental polution is not to make laws prohibiting poluting rivers and the air and such, becasue even major pollutors when they get caught, get fined some petty sum. One of the largest river pollution fines ever given was a whopping 2500 dollars.

What you do is check the amount of pollution present in a companies outflow, adn then TAX them for the right to pollute, and give no deductions for any equipemt that pollutes. You just tax them at a rate that makes it unprofitable to pollute. You want to see how fast the come up with methods that allow them to do business in an environmentally sound fashion. It is impossible to police polluters, and fines are rarely punitive enough to make them stop dong it, so you check the outflow, and tax them per unit of outflow, and make the tax so high that by the tax makes them come up with methods that are pollution free. Businesses HATE taxes and will do just about anything to avoud paying them.