[extropy-chat] The Long Now: Bets and Predictions Over Time

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Trend Ologist <trendologist at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> Yes, but think of how petty Bush is. With what is brewing in Iraq, he
> is pushing a federal amendment banning gay marriage? Aren't his
> priorities arbitrary and capricious? Bush is being like his father
> was with the flag burning amendment. Sure, we know how wedge politics
> are supposed to be but such pettiness is comically disproportionate.

As petty as Johnson, who pushed through his Great Society? or Roosevelt
who pushed through radical restructuring of the US economy during WWII
that fulfilled many socialist goals, including the Current Payments Tax
Act, which mandated all employers be the tax collector for their
employees and allowed the federal government to collect interest on
withheld income prior to tax day, whereas in previous years taxpayers
paid at the END of the tax year. The change in the rules confused so
many people that the number who reported taxes, whether they actually
had to or not, rose in one year from 6 million to 22 million.

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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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