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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Huh? Its scarcity is what gives it value.
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It is scarce to the women becuase they do not control it. There is obviously enough food there, it is just being withheld for sex.
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop In other words, I beat on you and you're changing your answer.
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If that's what you need to validate yourself, go right ahead.
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop I know what you're saying, but it's hooey. No matter who "owns" the tax dollars, you want to take them from the NEA to give them to poor African prostitutes, but not from your pocket.
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It is from my own pocket, that's the point.
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop And yet you're not willing to have the UN spend more on famine relief -- at least not unless someone else pays for it but you don't have to -- and you are only using this situation to bash the UN, which is the only institution -- so far as I know -- actually there doing something to help these people. 'nuff said.
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The UN does not have independent taxing power and therefore does not have independent sources of revenues. It is primarily dependent on $ from the US, which get is money from you, me and other tax payers. So I am spending on famine relief. The question is how should additional relief, if necessary, be funded. My position is that, given the vast amount of governmental waste, it should be funded from existing revenues, rather than revenues resulting from increased taxes.
