[ExI] state vs federal taxes, was: RE: self driving truck

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 5:21 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:46 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>
>> ​> ​
>> So… my feeling is that the heavy lifting in government should be done at
>> the state level.
>
>
> But how could that ever come to be? A presidential or congressional
> candidate who says "I will do nothing to address the most important social
> issue of our age and I have no interest in the thing that makes you
> ​the ​
> angriest" will simply never get
> ​
> elected.
> ​ They'd rather vote for the first dimwit they find with ​loud voice who
> promises simple solutions to complex problems.
>

Unless they are duped into believing there is only one other serious
candidate on the ballot, who is even worse.  (Note the number of people who
will never - even if they dislike both choices and they live in a state
whose electors are predetermined, so the only thing they can do with their
vote is to protest - seriously consider voting third party.)

Incidentally there is now about one chance in 4 that the revolver aimed at
> our heads will go off a week from tomorrow.
>

Case in point: that's a 3 in 4 chance that the presidential candidate who
has not demonstrated nearly as much interest in this issue will be elected.
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