Recent content by Chet

Probably time to find more ways to move money, paypal tends to go overboard on kyc/aml measures and freeze accounts whenever they feel like it.

Personal responsibility is one of the casualties of the 'welfare state'. Why help dude or dudette directly, the mighty state has already forceably taken whatever % of your money that they are supposed to be using for that. This is a great sadness, paying taxes is not the same impact on the human...

<< keeps wondering if you need a housekeeper whenever I read posts describing your place.

A lot of miners use the extra heat for households, you can't really figure the power costs that clearly.

Most recent food guidelines are saying animal fats are not bad for you, of course turkey is still probably less calories.

I dunno about safe but I bet everyones manners would improve a lot.

The analogy to domestic violence is not so far off, imo. Most police will tell you that getting called into a domestic dispute is one of the most dangerous things they do. Chances really are very high that both will turn on anyone that interferes. I certainly don't have any solutions but an...

Public floggings strikes me as a proper punishment for corrupt 'officials'. Maybe some time in the stocks too.

Democracy has this annoying way of devolving into mob rule. I wish I had a better suggestion but democracy and or republics are so far the best forms of governance humans have come up with. The biggest way we could improve various currently broken forms would be to reduce the size of the...

You do not need a dni to get a CUIL.

I am by no means saying there should be no tax, the problem arises when those taxes are spent in foolish and corrupt ways, which is pretty much what can be expected to happen when people are spending 'other peoples money'. Money that can be taken whenever the government feels the need. Why any...

Economies are never as simple as anyone likes to try and think. Taxes do hurt everyone, some more than others. They also tend to help everyone, some more than others. The issues appear when there is little or no congruence between the groups. Inflation discourages saving, without some savings no...

the people vote for their leaders, they get what they want. Argentina and other questionable places ...like planet earth ...

Just a minor nit pick, I did not say I supported or did not support anything. I said was is true as things currently exist.

Taxes are much like the law, a truly wonderful thing, so egalitarian. They equally forbid a rich man and a poor man from sleeping under bridges. Let us speak of painting houses and VAT. A rich man who needs to paint his house will spend x on paint plus % vat, being rich he doesn't care about...