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You're making the same mistake as fhl in equating higher tax with progressive tax. Whatever the tax rate that you want to have, making it progressive (ie, lower the tax rate for those who are making less than a certain amount) would make it better.

So which is it? That you already know it inside, or that you've seen the evidence?

I am talking about our nation. You are talking about the states. I am not interested in the religious status of the states, nor are most of the voters voting for the president. I think your argument is misguided.

Yea right. Anyone who disagrees with you is not sincere, is a liar, or should not be posting. What an arrogant ***hole. If that is the best a libertarian can do, then they'll never have any chance in this country.

Lol. When I said that the evangelicals were trying to turn back the clock, I didn't expect that they would rush to confirm my accusation. Everything you cited was at least 100 years old. Do you think we are still living in the 19th century? Or would you rather that we should return to the...

Exactly the same things were done to the Jews. They were deported, not killed. Only those who didn't leave were eventually killed. The process takes the time. This really confirms the kinship (no pun intended) between conservatism and fascism.

That sums it up pretty well - you believe in electricity because you were told so, not because you had felt the electric shock. I guess that's the difference between you and me. Call it whatever you want, if you don't want to call that blind faith. It's certainly not based on empirical evidence.

You misunderstood the Jefferson quote. The sentences following are: "His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever a man worshiped a false god, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof Don't tell me that you know better than all the Supreme Court justices in the past 100 years who all interpreted this sentence as the separation of church and state. I know the...

I think you're too harsh on religion. Religion is a tool, just like all other tools human invented. You can't blame the tool if people use it to do bad things, or if the tool impedes people's development.

Not all founding fathers were christians. Thomas Jefferson was a well-known atheist. So was Ben Franklin. These were the two high-profile, well-known ones. If we researched more, we'd find quite a few others whose "Christian" belief was at best suspect. This nation was not founded on...

Thank you. I agree with you 100%.

You're wrong. The answers to your questions are no, no, and no. You're believing the conservative definition of liberalism. We've been listening to their propaganda for too long, and don't know how to think for ourselves.

I see where your problem is. You're confusing tax rate (be it flat or not) with a progressive tax system. Read Adam Smith, and you'll understand the difference.

Showing your ignorance again. Communist countries never had any tax. They didn't need to. If you compare the US, Japan, Europe, and China, China has the least progressive tax system, and Japan the most progressive. Which country is free and which is not? I may be in an ivory tower but you're...

I never thought that I would find someone more delusional than Rush Limbaugh. Wow.

It's interesting that in this case, the conservative "free-market" advocates are trying to use government regulation to control the market. Not that I think it's unreasonable. There is a role for the government in every part of our life. Government is not the problem. Abusing power by...

This is the first post from you that makes some sense. Liberalism is not libertarian. An unregulated, "free-for-all" society, will not have any individual liberty to speak of. Protection of individual liberty, the foundation of liberalism, requires very much government intervention. Take the...

You're back at the conservatives' favorite trick, rumor mongering. What do you get today if you sell prescription drugs "outside of the system?" Yes, you go to jail under today's law. Is that a free market?

You're delusional if you think that there is a free market in health care today. The difference between today's Republicans and today's Democrats is whether you want corporate control of the market, or government control. I take that back. The difference is whether you want old economy corporate...