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Originally Posted by Relentless
The devil is in the details. We should get rid of some and add others. That doesn't matter a lick until we have people in congress and the whitehouse whose goal is to add the right ones and remove the right ones. The first step to getting that is to yank the money out of the election system.
Citizens United is the most important political event in the entire history of our country (that is not hyperbole). It will in fact end our democracy within 100 years. It allows corporations or wealthy individuals to give an unlimited amount of money AND not disclose who they gave it to. When Goldman Sachs gives 1Billion to each candidate in the presidential election and neither Goldman nor the candidates have to tell anyone it happened... who do you think the president will be listening to... regardless of which 'party' wins.
Everything else is a distraction for the sheep  |
Sadly the sheep are impressed by the big spending campaigns don't see who is paying and realise why.
30-40 years ago I would of loved to get tax cuts. It was a time when the UK imported far less and exported far more. So spending in the shops would lead to more production in the UK. Today it's a different world.
So will anyone here asking for tax cuts in any way lie to support those cuts by losing even more customers, or having their roads repaired less or less policemen on their streets, etc? Or maybe all of these cut backs in spendings.
Would they support a Government department with the task of tracking down sites primarily using piracy to turn a profit or the payment processors and advertisers on the piracy site? AK is doing a tremendous job, yet it's always "Wack a Mole" until the big arm of Government get's involved. Visa could exterminate most in a few weeks.