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Wed 23 Jul, 2008 06:12 pm
if he chooses
Huckabee for VP
Shoot me now.
Joe(Now, don't wait.)Nation
Re: I will vote for McCain
Oh my gawd, H2O - where did we fail you?
Joe Nation wrote:Shoot me now.
No problem ... could you move to your left just a bit?
It's good to have a plan.
I've got something against Huck - I mean, politics is an aggregate function whereas theosophy is a unit in and of itself. Don't get me wrong, I like the Southern Baptist thing (right after Quaker and Anglican as Christians go), I've been inside one of the seminaries, and compared to the Born-Again thing, which in and of itself, even in W-Bush is a self-correcting problemÂ… Just that for what it's worth, no quarter, I mean, I like to think I'm about something; they like to think they're about something - let's each do our thing and see who comes out on top.
As such, never, never my heart's blood, would I want to see him as president - better to have Obama or Hilly in a sense just to play some things through - but as VP, maybe. Gore was a VP after all, and his BS didn't get out of hand, Huck's extremely congenial, and then you've got the flat tax which is like crack to a conservative-leaning Libertarian like myself. I'd say I can dig it relative to he-of-five-grandmothers or otherwiseÂ…
hanno wrote:and then you've got the flat tax which is like crack to a conservative-leaning Libertarian like myself.
The FairTax is nothing like the flat tax.
I was all set to type a sarcastically gobsmacked response ("You're voting for MCCAIN??!! No!! I NEVER would've guessed!!!") but am actually gobsmacked that your vote is conditional on Huckabee as VP. All this yapping about Obama and you're not even sure you're voting for McCain? Excellent.
H2O_MAN wrote:hanno wrote:and then you've got the flat tax which is like crack to a conservative-leaning Libertarian like myself.
The FairTax is nothing like the flat tax.
I don't like to make a thing about the methods - practicality should dictate them, as opposed to anyones ideas about society - but hitting it at the end-consumer level I'm all about. Liberals love to take the definition of the purpose cash what pleases 'em that particular second, to my mind flat sales tax would bring it back to it's core functionality, scrub away this moral/utopian carrot-and-stick BS.
A flat tax would retain the IRS - The FairTax eliminates the IRS.
I will be the happiest person in the world if 70 percent of the 2allowed "citizen use their franchaise.
H2O_MAN wrote:Joe Nation wrote:Shoot me now.
No problem ... could you move to your left just a bit?
Sorry, Joe can't get much farther left.
H2O_MAN wrote:hanno wrote:and then you've got the flat tax which is like crack to a conservative-leaning Libertarian like myself.
The FairTax is nothing like the flat tax.
Flat tax is a wonderful idea compared to the so-called Fair Tax. One low % for everyone.
The whole problem in USA is this.
None of the Resident had attraced 70 percent of the eligible voters and always the cockecolo and cokecola light.
H2O_MAN wrote:A flat tax would retain the IRS - The FairTax eliminates the IRS.
In reality , SOME federal agency would still collect any tax, monitor compliance, deal with non-payers, etc
Just because it might not be called 'the IRS' doesn't mean you're any better off.
You have to look at the likely consequences of each proposed system.
real life wrote:H2O_MAN wrote:A flat tax would retain the IRS - The FairTax eliminates the IRS.
In reality , SOME federal agency would still collect any tax, monitor compliance, deal with non-payers, etc
Just because it might not be called 'the IRS' doesn't mean you're any better off.
You have to look at the likely consequences of each proposed system.
I have looked at all 3 and The FairTax is the best.