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  • Reply to: Pinkwashing Turns on Itself with Breast Cancer Awareness Gun   14 years 8 months ago

    I think it is a wonderful idea that Smith and Wesson is making this gun. I hope more gun companies follow suit in making guns to support a wonderful cause. Having my own dealings with breast cancer any bit of support helps.

  • Reply to: People Have the Power: Patti Smith Rocks Madison, CMD!   14 years 8 months ago
    Nice story about Gibson being a student guitar. :) I would love to own one....
  • Reply to: Sarah Palin, FOXey Lady   14 years 8 months ago

    When you open a dumpster, what do you expect inside?

  • Reply to: Secret Money Abounds in Health Reform Fight   14 years 8 months ago

    So where is the analysis of the anti-American perks going to all the Democrat players? Every one of these perks does nothing to improve the health of Americans, except the financial health of those politically connected, and adds hundreds of millions of dollars of debt to the over $1.3 trilliion ( $1,300,000,000,000) this boondoggle will add to the national debt.

  • Reply to: Greedwashing on Wall Street   14 years 9 months ago
    The reqiurement of giving a certain portion of one's income to charity actually reminds me of a system I had thought up for taxes, that I call "de-bundling." It is an attempt to find a way to increase democratic participation while taking into consideration the capitalist sympathies of this country. The way it would work would be that each governmental office estimates and publicly publishes the cost of maintaining that function. The taxes paid would not go to a uniform pool but to the direct office that the taxpayer chooses. This way, the public votes with dollars. It might be tyrannical, but at least the public would bear responsibility for underfunded organs of the government. Also, (and this is where the de-bundling comes in) politicians would no longer be able to bundle issues and split votes the way they do for their campaigns because people would be deciding what to fund themselves. Ideally, institutions would spring up for the purpose of keeping the governmental offices from lying about their functions and their effect in the name of educating the taxpayer. These could become a powerful check against corporate media. Or would this system just be a corporatization of government in the first place?

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