Letters to the Editor
Aycharaych
Published Letters: 2087 Editor's Choice: 3
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LWM
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You think your tax dollars are building more prisons? What tax dollars? No one pays taxes here any more.
Well, not the rich, they have accountants, lawyers and offshore bank accounts.
Us lower and middle class pay plenty though.
An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: "argument to the man", "argument against the man") consists of replying to an argument or factual claim by attacking or appealing to a characteristic or belief of the person making the argument or claim, rather than by addressing the substance of the argument or producing evidence against the claim. The process of proving or disproving the claim is thereby subverted, and the argumentum ad hominem works to change the subject.
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walter_map
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wasn't complaining, simply stating a fact.
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bebop
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love you too, bro.
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Shooter
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Strange that you would leave payroll taxes out of your calculations.
These days eight out of ten families pay more in payroll than income taxes.
Keep in mind also that payroll taxes are heavily regressive due to the salary cap and also due to investment income not being subject to payroll tax.
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The total tax burden on the average family today is 39%, a far more onerous load on lower income families than those with higher income.
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AI
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you mean "historicism"..
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Anyways, thats my theory, what's yours?
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with you considerably..
However I think it is the drug war more than the drugs themselves that have led to such a violent subculture.
When was the last time we saw shootouts between alcohol dealers?
In a black market there is no contract law, hence business disputes must be settled with violence rather than in court. Black markets invariably lead to increased violence.
Take people with very low incomes and dangle the opportunity to make big money fast in front of them and some of them are going to take it even if the risks are high.
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Anonymust
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Still, she was already unable to act in her own best interests. And we had to force the issue, which would not have been possible without the help of both Medicine and the Law.
That sounds an awful lot like forced medication.
Despite the fact that I come across as a black and white thinker I actually am quite conflicted about many things. Forced medication is one of those things about which I'm conflicted.
I trust neither the competence nor the motives of many people and organizations, I'm always suspicious whenever the profit motive comes into play. Until you are on the receiving end of something it's really hard to know how it feels. What is being done to many "troubled teens" these days is nothing short of horrendous.
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Anonymust
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And when someone has a chemical imbalance and takes drugs for it... and the drugs quit working... that person is often not in a position to make an actual informed choice, due to the illness. In such a case, someone needs to step in, preferably a family member, but that's not always possible.
How many have a chemical imbalance and how many are simply driven crazy by the insanity all around us?
We are living lives for which evolution has not had a chance to adapt us to, civilization is an almost instantaneous development in human evolutionary terms.
Most shy people are not shy with people they know, they are shy with strangers. We are not evolved to deal with strangers, we are evolved to live in bands of no more than a few dozen hunter/gatherers. Dealing with hordes of strangers every day is exceedingly stressful to the shy person.
Shyness is a monstrous disadvantage in modern society and those who suffer from it are constantly under far more stress than the non shy person could possibly understand.
Shyness is but one example of a trait which is disadvantageous in modern society for which evolution has not had time to breed out of us.
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PW
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Having established that both parties spoke of one course of action and pursued another, the assignment of motive is really kind of besides the point; you are either true to your stated principles or you aren't.
You and I agree on this at least.
Principles are vital and if you do not hew to those you proclaim to hold then you might as well not have any at all.
Which is my complaint against both political parties, neither appears to have any principle besides taking and holding power for its own sake.
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A huge effect of a national sales tax that no one else has mentioned..
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee wants to abolish the IRS]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Black markets..
I already derive a good chunk of my income through barter, if I had to pay thirty percent or more sales tax I would avoid buying retail like ebola.
The amount of goods being sold "off the back of the truck" would soar astronomically.
I wonder what sort of enforcement and penalties would be needed to keep the black market under control?
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Dirigo
[Read the article: The role of political reporters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whatever the psychology of people like Limbaugh and the rest, I'd bet they can't get their minds around the fact that we now have to face the issue of torture, and it is impossible to make it heroic. Can't be done.
One number: 24
One name: Jack Bauer
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totallyblase
[Read the article: The role of political reporters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I used to give 'em (the military and the government) the benefit of doubt. I also used to think that the Israelis were the cat's pajamas. Funny how looking at stuff from both sides can change all that.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -H. L. Mencken
Yeah, once upon a time I admired the Israelis also.