should high-income earners get taxed more than everyone else? (pg. 9)
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Desiderata |
quote: | Originally posted by zGoogleman
You're one of those stupid Americans that believes there is no corruption in the states. Exactly why Americans are the best populace for a dictator. |
And you think without control everyone will just fix themselves and act correctly? |
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Vivid Boy |
im lost are we talking about corruption like faulty contracts and corrupt spending of money? or are we talking about conspiracy tehories like 9/11.
i thought we were talkign straight up ordinary corruption...which exists like crazy. |
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Desiderata |
I'm trying to figure it out. |
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Vivid Boy |
haha beecause nou called him an idiot for even mentioning corrupt contracts. I know on a personal basis that happens all the time! |
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zGoogleman |
quote: | Originally posted by Vivid Boy
im lost are we talking about corruption like faulty contracts and corrupt spending of money? or are we talking about conspiracy tehories like 9/11.
i thought we were talkign straight up ordinary corruption...which exists like crazy. | The first thing.
Obviously Nou doens't know jack about . |
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zGoogleman |
quote: | Originally posted by Desiderata
And you think without control everyone will just fix themselves and act correctly? |
Never said anything about that. There is a need for law so the majority can remain safe from crazies. |
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Desiderata |
Does corrupt contracts even result in that much damage, there is kind of a black market for everything. |
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Desiderata |
quote: | Originally posted by zGoogleman
Never said anything about that. There is a need for law so the majority can remain safe from crazies. |
Just checking:p |
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zGoogleman |
quote: | Originally posted by Desiderata
Does corrupt contracts even result in that much damage, there is kind of a black market for everything. |
I would say yes. Especially when the price of something is overly inflated so the money is more easily concealed. |
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Joss Weatherby |
quote: | Originally posted by zGoogleman
And the government receives more than enough money to fix everything. They can't cause most of the money goes over shores to bank accounts of lawmakers. Or the lawmakers give jobs to contractors that charge ten times the price of what the work would cost anybody else. Corruption works. |
This is what I am talking about. I am not denying there is corruption in government but he is making it out to sound like we are Greece or some African nation where politicians just take money. |
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OrangestO |
They do. They're just not as obvious/blatant/abrupt about it. |
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Halcyon+On+On |
Or the most corrupt operate in plain sight because of the often ed-up economic policies allowed to pass in the US. And an absolutely ceaseless lobbying and appeals system. |
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