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How to ruin America
Forbes magazine ^
| 23 december 2002
| Ben Stein
Posted on 12/21/2002 4:49:05 PM PST by Radix
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To: Pagey
BTTT
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posted on
12/22/2002 4:32:21 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
To: Chu Gary
BTTT
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posted on
12/22/2002 4:35:21 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
To: MHGinTN
To: Radix; Pagey
Pagey, Out of curiosity I read your profile too and I have to ask what you mean by this,
IF you think L.A. is a horrible place To Live,To Visit,or Work In and Around,YOU need to take your Blinders Off
You love this crap hole?
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posted on
12/22/2002 4:54:48 PM PST
by
SwankyC
To: Flashman_at_the_charge
Better than robbing the most productive at gunpoint.
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posted on
12/22/2002 5:33:31 PM PST
by
weikel
To: Radix
Looks like the accepted Democratic Platform to me.
To: Radix
Working closely with the teachers' unions, make sure that you dumb down standards so that children who make the most minimal effort still get by with flying colors.Award HS Diplomas just for being enrolled for the 4 years.
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posted on
12/22/2002 5:45:10 PM PST
by
varon
To: genefromjersey
Ben left out "balkanization" : That's a good one, but IMHO a more powerful summary would be "to pursue a suicidal 'free trade' policy that unilaterally lowers our tariffs, encourages overseas investment and the collapse of our own industrial infrastructure."
To: weikel
You talk like this doesn't already happen in addition to the lottery. States have no business selling get rich schemes to the public.
To: Flashman_at_the_charge
Income taxes would be worse without a lottery. Lotteries don't have nearly the negative economic impact other taxes do because its a voluntary tax on generally the stupidest and least productive class. Its a lot less coercive than any other tax and less economically disruptive as it does not penalize the producers of society or penalize the act of trade. Ideally I wish everything could be run off the lottery.
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posted on
12/22/2002 8:53:57 PM PST
by
weikel
To: SwankyC
You have Freepmail
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posted on
12/23/2002 9:50:18 AM PST
by
Pagey
To: Radix
13.) Take away the public's means to defend it self.
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posted on
12/23/2002 9:55:09 AM PST
by
oyez
To: Flashman_at_the_charge
I'd love to see where the 14 billion really go. All those perspective students show up at the undeveloped colleges and universities and stick around for a semester or two just to drop out.
Any way why spent the money to institutuons that tech these twelve points as doctrine?
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posted on
12/23/2002 10:03:14 AM PST
by
oyez
To: weikel
The lower class consume far more than they would ever return in the form of lottery payments. That situation will remain if they continue to believe that gambling their discretional income away is a better way to get ahead than hard work and self improvement.
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