Am I My Brother's Keeper?
 

1. Absolutely. On the right, mostly.

2. Notice I used the word "trend" in my post a few times. Yes, in a static worldn - one in which trends never occured and scenarios never changged - I would agee with you.

The current absent projected revenue stands at $290 billion. Raise taxes and watch that number increase at a percent wildy above the percent of increased revenue picked up from the increase.

Am I My Brother's Keeper?
 

I am mad at welfare recipients who can work and don't. But they aren't breaking the law. People who retire early are presumably still paying taxes, so this example is erroneous.

Why are you working so hard to defend an admitted criminal? Would you applaud a rapist who got off because he established his victim was a slut and he could have probably fucked her anyway?

Am I My Brother's Keeper?
 

It's already a serious problem. The tax gap is billions of dollars. And your argument that the govenrment is flawed, therefore all citizens are entitled to ignore the law is troublesome on a number of levels.

I assume you're just jacking with me. I can't believe that you're really as amoral as you are claiming to be for purposes of this discussion.

Why do you always hurt the ones you love?

S_A_M

P.S. Ty made me ask that.

Nice . . . quoting Rather in that post gets you an extra point.

S_A_M

P.S. But why do you bother to do what you do here? Couldn't you just go kick an associate?

You get like this every so often. I don't understand why the mood swings and sudden bursts of hostility. . . Adjust your meds.

Peace be with you Hank.

S_A_M

Hence the irony of the 9th vindicating me against 29 so-called "senators" who saw no problem with giving mandatory student fees (via unanimous consent) for things such as a $1,000 honoraria to Cesar Chavez to speak on campus. To this day, I am embarassed for some of the people on that body.

Brava!

what I do here? people are waxing poetic about how the FCC will get reined right in once Hil or Obama takes over. I was the only to raise couple of facts. Clinton's FCC fined Stern. It started it. And Hil and Obama both voted to raise the FCC fine limit.

"What I do here" is be one of a very small number of people that actually know what they are talking about and who try to bring in facts to upgrade the conversation.

I was not referring to the content of your posts.* I was referring to their tone and manner, and your undisguised/ill-disguised feelings for your fellow posters.

I suspect you could accomplish your laudable goals of spreading knowledge and elevating the discourse without dripping contempt. But perhaps not. Posting here is cheaper than therapy.

"If you want friends, you have to be friendly."

S_A_M

PS: * Ty told me to say that to throw you off.

a kinder gentler PB, you propose? Hmm. Yes. I am on board. Good idea!

I will not be the one to break this truce. I shall now be respectful to each poster here.

Good day for now, good sir!.

someone will have to get RT to stop saying my health care posts are stupid.

Thank you for calling me poetic.

you have earned that compliment. I often find your posts inspiring and thought provoking. You certainly have the ability to cause an opponent to see your side of an issue.

And to you, sir, and to you!

She is a hard case, that one.

S_A_M

Am I My Brother's Keeper?
 

I am not defending him. As I said dozens of times, I would not engage in the most aggressive tactics some of these people have. I am merely citing a cultural trend toward supporting them. And I am blaming this crumbling of public "morality" about tax cheating on the fans of big govt who think they can engage in wars and pay for bloated entitlement programs on the taxpayers' back and then have the gall to act as though people who tell them to fuck off and refuse to pay their taxes are somehow "immoral."