Posted by sigismund on August 18, 2011, at 3:43:01
In reply to Re: And someone else for me to worry about.... » floatingbridge, posted by floatingbridge on August 17, 2011, at 19:10:26
I have this problem with canned laughter. Well, maybe I have this problem with people.
I can at least respect Ron Paul.
You have two traditions that we do not have...the evangelical and the libertarian.
It is perhaps the impact of the landscape...all that landscape, you might say, given by God to us, albeit with some formidable inhabitants. The landscape here was so foreign and the circumstances of settlement/invasion so criminal that we do not have those two traditions. We do have social conservatives.
There are lots of good reasons for treating corporations as human beings...liability, taxes, what else?
Warren Buffet was quoted at length in the press today about taxes.
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