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    Walmart's lack of compensation and benefits for its employees costs tax payers 2.6...

    Re: Walmart's lack of compensation and benefits for its employees costs tax payers 2. Based on the data in the OP source, Wal-Mart saves the taxpayers money when it comes to "welfare". 1) Every single Wal-Mart employee identified in the study would be drawing MORE "welfare" if they did not...
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    Why Capitalism's problems are internal to Capitalism

    None of this refutes the Agricultural Revolution as a counter-factual to your theory. The fact that farms are subsidized now, or that the RoP has declined over time, does not support your conclusion that Capitalism must inherently collapse. Your theory predicts collapse would have happened...
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    Why Capitalism's problems are internal to Capitalism

    What a lovelytheory, let's see how it's actually played out in history. Capitalist farmers sought to increase profit by saving in labor costs. They investedin tractors, combines, fertilizer, pesticides, etc. Seeing the increased production with lesslabor many other farmers also made similar...
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    Republicans Costing Jobs Already: 300 Lost Due to Scott Walker Election

    First of all it is clear from the article that the outgoing Democratic Governor Jim Doyle is the one responsible for temporarily suspending the project. I'll grant that his decision is likely in response to the pressure raised by Walker's campaign, but Governor Doyle is still in charge and the...
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    How Can America Restore Its Global Competitiveness?

    Oh lord where to begin ... False. From 1956 to 2004 public spending on infrastructure capital (ie. new stuff, not operating costs) grew by 1.7%. Since 1987 public spending on infrastructure capital has been rising by 2.1% per year. While I'll grant you that Reagan may have been responsible...
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    Warren Buffett: Raise Taxes On The "Very Rich"

    I appologize in advance for the math phrasing but, tlmorg02, if you could indulge me in the following. For the top 1% bracket, or alternately the 5 quintiles of taxpayers: Define "Y", where "Y" is percentage of income paid in federal taxes that satisfies your definition of "reasonable". Define...
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    Firefighters watch as home burns to the ground

    Perhaps you'd care to address the moral / legal questions I raised in my post, instead of merely repeating your policy proposal which I have already addressed. Lilke MaggieD, perhaps you'd care to answer the moral / legal questions raised. Why is the inaction inexcusable? What precisely is...
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    Warren Buffett: Raise Taxes On The "Very Rich"

    Buffett is great on investment advice but lousy on tax policy advice. If he wants to pay more in taxes he can write a check to the US Treasury [1]. Not surprisingly he doesn't, instead he chooses to give generously to charity [2]. If the government is so great at helping people why is Buffett...
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    Firefighters watch as home burns to the ground

    In the situation before us a property owner elected not to pay for firefighting services and lost his property as a result. Many suggest the only moral solution is to levy taxes to support firefighting services. My question is, what makes this solution moral? Why is the morality of the...
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    Census finds record gap between rich and poor

    So by actually reading the Census report on Income, we find out that the poor are not getting poorer, and that the middle class is moving up the income ladder. [1, page 41 Table A-1] So we've established the fact that the rich aren't becoming richer at the expense of the poor or middle class...
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    Healthcare, Socialized Medicine, and Free Market Fallacies

    Health care is no different than any other professional service (CPA, Lawyer, Mechanic, etc.). There is nothing special about health care provision that somehow makes it "immune" to market forces. If you care to try to identify the economic qualities that make health care provision different...
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    Libertarianism in Action

    Guy Incognito; I disagree with your choice of "libertarian first principles" in general and you more specific point of how particular policies examined independently somehow violate those principles. Since you were not very far off the mark on the first principles issue I'll start there...
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    Rich Getting Richer

    I assume the OP is referring to Census Income data released this month. [1] If you turn to Table A-1 of that document you will find a breakdown of household incomes over time. The obvious conclusion of the trends in that table is that while the rich are getting richer, the poor are NOT getting...
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    Figures don't lie, but liars can figure

    First of all they're not Samuelson's figures. Samuelson is referencing Mark Zandi in his article, "Just consider: these affluent households represent almost a quarter of all consumer spending, says Zandi." [1, emphasis added] Mark Zandi included this claim in an NYT op-ed [2], as well as his...
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    My trip to the hospital

    1) The OP seems to further claim that he pays little to no taxes, is he "mooching" yet? 2) If someone was clearly using more in medical services than they contribute in taxes, are they "mooching" yet? 3) Health care services (particularly as depicted in the OP) are not a public good (in the...
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