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    I admit that I skip every one of your posts because I can't figure out which stuff is your words, and end up re-reading a whole bunch of stuff if I try to wade through it. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    When you figure out how a 200-kt drone is going to intercept, much less dogfight a Mach 3 warplane, let me know. It could do it by launching a missile that flies at higher speeds. SAM sites have intercepted warplanes before, and they don't move at all. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Huh? I'm guessing that whooshing sound was your humor flying somewhere over my head. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Married couples filing jointly are both paying taxes. Regardless of which partner brings home the W-2, the income is legally earned and taxed jointly. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Percentage of voters who pay federal income tax. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    You're a racist in 3...2...1... -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    In economic terms, the second one is called a poll tax. It's actually the most efficient (meaning having the least distortion on human behavior) tax possible. Through weird (and inaccurate) teaching in our public schools, it's generally thought to be a racist method of taxation. I didn't understand that until it was explained in very small words to me by an economics professor during my third year of university study. For what it's worth, I'm in favor of the second, but given that there is no way it will ever be enacted in my life time, I'd settle for the first. Of course, the chance of that being enacted is also zero. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Who cares? Bush sucked. He spent way more money than we had. Is that a reason for us to continue sucking? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Yeah! There are only two possibe sides! Either you liked Bush's spending, or you like Obama's! It is absolutely, utterly, and in all other ways inconceivable that anyone would oppose both! -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Ever read To Kill A Mockingbird? It is precisely because people are unequal that the law must provide the one place where all are treated equally. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Can anyone point me at historical data regarding the percentage of voters who are taxpayers by year? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Does anyone have comparative data for other nations? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Well, he is a part of the academic elite. Their thoughts are so complex and wonderful that mere mortals should simply bow in assent and do as they are told. In other words: "Don't you worry your pretty little head about it." -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    SC Nomination hearings are basically just a dog and pony show nowadays. From both sides. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    He thinks it's technically feasible to develop remotely controlled (not fully automated) UAV's as air interceptors. SAM sites could also help with aerial interception, at a lower cost than intercept fighters. I don't think this is a thought unique to this site. I recently visited the National Air and Space Museum, where they had a display of the USA's "last manned fighter aircraft." -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Well, the risks are a big part of the reason for the high pay. I just wish I didn't have to foot the bill for it all. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    What contractors are those - I'd like to talk to them about a job. I know three different guys working as contractors in Iraq, and all of them make more than 100k dollars per year. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    +1. Good post. Do you have a solid source for the expenditure and military personnel figures? Or, better yet, one that shows similar data for a range of countries? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    "From each according to their means..." ? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Exactly. And that's the problem. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    If we don't make a change at some time (and soon), I think we're going to have change forced on us when people (mostly Chinese people) stop buying our worthless debt. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    You realize that there were people who spoke up, right? Your inability to see past your partisan fingerpointing is disappointing, but hardly surprising. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Wht number is the $170 per person based off of? Population or actual taxpayers? Government revenues belong to the people as a whole. You don't have any special claim on the amount you paid in. If you're trying to apportion the "cost" of a government program, it's pretty transparent to reduce it by allocating some of that cost to people who make no financial contribution to it. The key word in your original quote was "taxpayers'", I think. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    The original answer over here was: Limit the powers of government. Unfortunately, that was done away with a little less than 100 years ago. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Under the current cap and trade proposals, could you just buy land, plant switchgrass, and claim a bunch of credits to sell on the open market (and presumably, to raise funds to buy more land and plant more)? I'm not up on the specifics of this proposal. Can you help me out? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com