XPost: rec.food.cooking, can.politics, can.general   
   From: cc@invalid.cc   
      
   On 11/30/2024 8:06 PM, Graham wrote:   
   > On 2024-11-30 7:13 p.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:   
   >> On 2024-11-30, gm  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Ayn Rand would note this is what you get when governments favor the   
   >>> least productive or even destructive elements of society, while creating   
   >>> difficulties and denouncing those who are productive - and all the while   
   >>> expecting the *productive* to pick up the bills...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> My vote is worth as much as Elon's or a LA street junkie's. Elon gives   
   >> to vote. I'm neutral. The junkie receives.   
   >> Personally, I'd like nobody under 24 to be able to vote and nobody who   
   >> doesn't pay income tax either.   
   >>   
   >> Oh...or a flat tax only. The rich s.o.b's pay more because they buy more.   
   >> The poor pay less because they buy less. And...everybody, of every age,   
   >> gets to vote, providing they can provide a single store receipt showing   
   >> they paid a flat tax on something.   
   >>   
   >> I have many, many solutions. Nobody listens!   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Hardly surprising!   
      
   You have a major recto-cranial impaction.   
      
   A lifetime of BBC and CBC will do that, as mind control goes.   
      
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