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Americans Fail Civics Test
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| 11/20/2008
| Michael P. Tremoglie
Posted on 11/21/2008 4:27:46 AM PST by William Tell 2
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To: William Tell 2
You answered 32 out of 33 correctly 96.97 %
I don't see how the answer to the one about government taxes equaling government spending is not "the government debt is zero." If what the government takes in in taxes equals spending, then how could the debt not be zero? They said the answer was that government spending per person equals government taxation per person. Okay, I can see that if they're talking average spending and average taxation, this would be true on the average. But given that most of income to the government comes from a relatively small number of people, then this isn't strictly true and wouldn't have to be true if government spending exactly equaled government revenue through taxation. However, if the government didn't spend any more than it took in through taxation, then it would have a zero debt.
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posted on
11/21/2008 6:02:35 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: Dead Corpse
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posted on
11/21/2008 6:03:59 AM PST
by
Forrestfire
(("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Theodore Roosevelt))
To: gwilhelm56
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posted on
11/21/2008 6:06:18 AM PST
by
Collier
To: gwilhelm56
I missed 3 as well. All were in the last five questions. On one I put what I wished would happen. That’s still 91%.
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posted on
11/21/2008 6:13:45 AM PST
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Round 9
To: Issaquahking
This is not Breaking news. Would like to see it in Front Page News, where everyone gets a shot at it, and where it belongs.Slow day in your neck of the woods Issaquahking?
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posted on
11/21/2008 6:15:41 AM PST
by
tx_eggman
(I own two rare photos. Houdini as he locks his keys in his car and Norman Rockwell beating a child.)
To: Dead Corpse
I missed that as well. Might it be debatable?
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posted on
11/21/2008 6:16:45 AM PST
by
Round 9
To: William Tell 2
Drat! I missed #33 after I went back and changed my answer. But I can live with a 96.97% grade.
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posted on
11/21/2008 6:19:03 AM PST
by
Comstock1
(If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry .45 caliber miracle.)
To: FJB2
I suppose it could be. But government spending unchecked increases debt load which can lead to inflation. It also mandates an increase in taxes at some later date to compensate. You cannot continue to rack up debt as a government without running into these artificial "boom/bust" cycles they've got us death spiraling in to.
Free markets with minimal interference fluctuate. It's natural. It's even desirable in some instances as it allows for more opportunity to invest at lower prices.
What we are dealing with now is to be laid directly at the Fedgov's feet. 100%...
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posted on
11/21/2008 6:27:02 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(What would a free man do?)
To: Dead Corpse
I disagreed with their answer on a couple of the economic questions (the two I missed, obviously).
I ALSO cannot understand what these have to do with civics.
Of course, I also missed one of the FDR questions, which I should have known.
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posted on
11/21/2008 6:38:25 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: Collier
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posted on
11/21/2008 6:46:28 AM PST
by
7thson
(I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
To: Dead Corpse
I'm with you. I answered the same way. Would have gotten an 84.8% mark. Very debatable answer.
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posted on
11/21/2008 6:49:57 AM PST
by
princeofdarkness
(Ronald Reagan- "Trust But Verify" MSM- "Report, Lie, Then Crucify")
To: 7thson
Scored an 81.82% missed 6.
To: author
Okay, I took the test, but found that one question - the most important of all questions facing public school students today - was missing:
When voting, do you support the wise, all-knowing, beautiful and perfect healer, the one with “D” after his name, or the monster who eats unborn children and repeatedly rapes his slaves, the one with “R” after his name?
Face it, if you’re NEA, do you want thinkers or voters?
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posted on
11/21/2008 10:10:24 AM PST
by
DPMD
(~)
To: Roccus
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posted on
11/21/2008 10:23:00 AM PST
by
mc5cents
(Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
To: William Tell 2
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posted on
11/24/2008 5:41:48 PM PST
by
erkyl
(The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, stay neutral)
To: 7thson
That’s why I love this site. Everyone’s smarter than me. You learn a lot that way. :)
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posted on
11/27/2008 8:31:12 PM PST
by
Collier
To: Collier
They wouldn't tell me my score. They just said to stay away from sharp objects and to sit quietly and I would be contacted by the Obama 2012 Vice-Presidential Search Committee.
Is that good?
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