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The problem with a national sales tax is that it's regressive - poor people end up paying a greater portion of their income as tax than rich people do.

There will be a drop in prices, but it may not be much. Large market fluctuations like this will cause market instability, which results in consumer prices near the higher end of the scale. All the people involved in shipping and processing consumer goods have more risk in an unstable market...

These plants have been growing for over a month now, and they're barely making any progress. I'm not sure what to make of it. I have them under two 80-watt 48" fluorescent fixtures with daylight spectrum bulbs. At first they were under one, but I doubled it. They're in good garden dirt that...

You're saying I'm a sheep because I'm not going into a panic over something I actually understand from first-hand experience? BST sucks because of what it does to the cows. It "uses them up" faster. Honestly, I don't like the idea of farmers using BST to increase production, but the idea...

My dad is a dairy farmer, and he doesn't use BST. Honestly though, I don't think there's any problems from people drinking the milk that could possibly come from it. The stuff is identical to what the cow's body produces naturally, it's just used to increase the hormone levels. My dad doesn't...

You can come up with any number you want to in order to measure unfunded liabilities, but it doesn't mean shit unless you attach a time frame to it. If the annual government deficit is $100, then over the next one trillion years, we have a projected $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities. Get...

All those prices should fall but only if gas prices stay low. After all, the stuff you buy now was probably made and transported with expensive gas.

Ok, then why don't you provide some links to educate me? Some of the debt is held by foreign banks, but most by US banks. The Federal Reserve is owned and managed by both the US Federal Government and private shareholders.

The solution to debt isn't more debt, unless you're the Federal Reserve, who can legally generate money out of thin air. That's not to say the deficit should get out of hand; it shouldn't, but as long as they contain it within certain levels, it won't cause the sort of ridiculous inflation...

Actually I moved all my money to gold and platinum AFTER the prices bottomed out. I've actually made like $700 since I switched. Of course I lost $5K in mutual funds first, so I've got a ways to go yet. When I first posted the thread, I added the tag "masochism" knowing how popular the...

Not to mention that all happened in 1991, and he hadn't done anything like that since then. Hey Saddam, remember that shit you did 12 years ago? Yeah, we're gonna invade you because of that now. Bush allowed 152 prisoners to be executed in Texas during his tenure as governor. Does this...

Certain things are guaranteed funding for so many years, Social Security and Medicare for instance. I was just wondering if the entire DoD is under this umbrella or just certain projects.

Agreed. That reminds me, I read an article today about the bomb in India. They quoted a few world leaders on the subject, including Barack Obama. Notably absent was a quote from George W. Bush, you know, the current US president. I guess no one cares what he has to say anymore.

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I'm not saying it's always a good idea, but in a recession like this one it's the least awful of our choices.

Noooo.... the dollar declines slowly and steadily over the long term. Then buy something that holds value over the long term. Nothing's stopping you. And like I've said before, so what? Why does this even matter? I don't really understand this paragraph. I posted a bunch of reasons why a...

I generally believe what is most widely accepted unless I can find good reason to believe otherwise. For instance, if inflation was much higher than the CPI indicates, prices would be going up fairly quickly. But my grocery bill is about the same as it was five years ago and most of the stuff...

And Dfunk apparently believes our government is competent enough to cover up vast conspiracies? It isn't that Zeitgeist is horrible, I mean, much of the information is true, just misrepresented. The problem is that it draws some bizarre conclusions from the information it presents, and makes...

Most of the time downloading torrents is illegal, but this one is perfectly legal. http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4416168/The_Union_-_Marijuana_Documentary.4416168.TPB.torrent It's a movie about marijuana laws, that goes into detail about British Columbia and how there's such a massive...

Yeah, I saw it. Here's a plot summary: (spoiler alert) Here's an interesting fact you probably didn't know! You don't know this fact because THEY don't want you to know it! That this fact is true is evidence that THEY are controlling all of society! Repeat 1-3 about 10-20 times. There's a...