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RE: All hail American capitalism!!!
December 5, 2011 at 4:55 pm
This is what you get from corporatism unfortunately. Someone needs to close all the loopholes and make taxation simple again.
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RE: All hail American capitalism!!!
December 5, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Crony capitalism, corporatism, loopholes in taxes....these all have one thing in common
Capitalism
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RE: All hail American capitalism!!!
December 5, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Doesn't make it the cause. I'd say the cause was political corruption.
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RE: All hail American capitalism!!!
December 5, 2011 at 9:01 pm
That's why I'm in favor of brutal dictatorship.
Where each law is far more brutal and punishing than the last.
Men are forced to work. Women to breed. (Or vice versa depending on whose in charge)
Everyone to worship their gloriouis leader as a god and accept their rightful place.
After all, the secret of government success is the brutality.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan