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Lol, that's all you got? Any time you have a caloric intake that exceeds the amount of calories you burn, causes fat. Trans fats cause coronary artery disease which leads to a sedentary lifestyle- which leads to burning less calories than you take in. Which leads to fat. I can't tell if you...

I just started noticing those shows recently. I spend most of my time reading. We are already talking about taxing sweets. I recall seeing something about a tax on trans fats, too. When you put a fatty up in the air, you get the munchies, right? So wouldn't legalizing and taxing MJ be an...

That is exactly what I mean when I say that the supply curve has to be pushed to the right! People get healthier, and health care gets cheaper. When that happens, it becomes cheaper to write insurance policies! When insurance companies can produce cheaper policies, more people can afford to...

Agreed. But let's not confuse regulation with market intervention. They are 2 different things. Regulations control externalities-costs or benefits of a market activity borne by a third party. Like dumping your manufacturing waste in a river, or controlling emissions. Intervention is when...

It is NOT fair! There is NOTHING fair about it! I am not saying we live in a free market, and anyone who thinks we do is effing dumb! We live in a mixed market. That is why we have government intervention when the free market fails. What I have described to you is EXACTLY the way things...

I agree with this absolutely. We could do that. This is the part I disagree with. The reason is ECON 101, Chapter 1, Page 1: Scarcity: The lack of enough resources to satisfy all desired uses of those resources. All of those "handy dandy laws of supply and demand" are not so simple when...

It is not a question of whether or not health care is a right. It is a question of economics, which is emotionless. I have drawn a quick supply and demand curve. Supply and demand is a force that is stronger than gravity. Every market will automatically seek out and find equilibrium and...

@Redivider, Agreed. Cut up the credit cards after you have established the credit. I have kept all of my credit card because for one, I appreciate being debt free now that I have dug myself out of debt, and do not fail to pay my bill every month. Second, I never spend more on the card that I...

Credit cards are bullshit. From the perspective of rebuilding credit, however, you will not do yourself any favors by getting rid of your credit cards. If you reduce the amount of available credit that you have available, it puts up a flag to future lenders that even you know that you are not...

I have made some bad credit choices in my lifetime. At one point I decided that I needed to get it cleaned up. I wasn't looking at jail or anything, but I thought I may want to buy a house one day, or a car, or a sleep number bed. I began by writing letters to all creditors that held my...

That's kick ass, man! Good luck!

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What? Did Michael Moore give you that number or something? Sorry to hate, but I just have to. Call it a kneejerk reaction to being called a stupid retard. The data you have just given is from the 2004 tax year, Bud. http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html Second paragraph, last...

I think he is talking about this gem.

Yes, actually it does make sense as an example of a syllogism. If I had said that a syllogism was an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other (minor...

Hey bud, what are you like 6 years old or something? I didn't invent the example that I gave. An economist named Steven Levitt did. Are you ready for the really funny part? He is VERY far from stupid. I bet you wouldn't ever catch HIM crying over a Michael Moore movie. Well... What about...

Michael Moore, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck. They are all smoke and mirrors. Sure, everything they say leads back to "truth" that can be looked up and verified. Great! In Economics 101 we learn that there is a name for this "magic trick". It is called a syllogism. Here is a semi...

At the museum, there is a workstation where survivors, workers, whoever can write an account of what they were doing when the Murrah Building got bombed. I submitted my story on 3 separate occasions of what I was doing there, and how scary it was to run for my life during those evacuations...

What about the USS Cole? Or what about the stolen Cessna that actually HIT the White House on Sept. 12, 1994? http://tech.mit.edu/V114/N40/crash.40w.html And for all you die hard kool-aid drinkers... The sum of 1+9+9+4 = 23. The sum of 2+3 = 5. This accident happened on Sept. 12. The sum of...

I was in Oklahoma City on the day of the bombing and six weeks afterward. I worked the Red Cross kiosks. First in the capacity of watering down law enforcement and later to feed, water, and play with the cadaver dogs, and then to set up feeding stations for the iron workers union. I remember...