Hey, Herb, that reminded me of my 33rd Law...

http://www.plusaf.com/falklaws.htm#33rd

Falk's Thirty-Third Law:
"The Only Criterion for putting a Tax on something is that the "something" must be Measurable. No other reason is necessary."



You will never find any other explanation which explains so rationally and succinctly why anything is taxed.
If it can be measured, it's a target for someone in Government to find a justification to tax it.
Remember the Boston Tea Party? "Taxation Without Representation"?
Now consider the Inheritance Tax. [a.k.a., "Estate Taxes"] ...
If that's not the ultimate "Taxation Without Representation," what is?

No studies that I know of. This is why I deem this "hypothesis" and not "theory".

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Yep, love those economists... they always know the truth and the future.. :)

his rationalization seemed to think that the people
who would be affected by wiping out the debt
would not be hurt . . . and there I was, owning some
savings bonds, thinking about international creditors
declaring war -- and he was an ORNL employee
of some note. . I was totally grossed out. -- j

Like the GM rice that could prevent river blindness in millions of kids if the anti-GM crowd would consider it to be non-dangerous? Yep.

And if you've kept up with some recent research and studies on salt in our diets, it's only really bad if you're hypertensive and overload on it. Ever see a bunch of dead deer lying around a salt lick?

Silly humans...

Any link to any studies that correlate chromosome count to 'percentage of filler' in grain?

Dogs have more chromosomes than humans... does that explain their exceptional vocabulary or math skills?

C'mon.... Correlation is sometimes =/= ANYTHING... :)

Was his 'idea' the trillion-dollar coin fallacy?

"SOURCE: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, news release, Nov. 18, 2014"

BLOOMBERG School of...?! Hey, that was almost subtle, dontchathink? :)

Sorry you got graduate school burned for not marching lock-step with the know-it-all libtard collective.

Exactly.

my graduate school econ grade dropped from an A
to a C when I begged to differ with the prof ... when
he said that the u.s. federal debt could be wiped out
with a single action, without an effect on the health
of the national economy. . I also said that J.M.Keynes
was wrong. . that was in the late 70s;;; just think
what they're teaching now! -- j

Common Core expands its scope with another panel of experts and rules.

Probably the same experts that maligned variously: saturated fats, red meat, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, carbohydrates, fat in general, cholesterol, blah, blah blah. While the good foods similarly rotated 360 degrees. The problem this time is they are writing rules, not just insisting on labels.
Now there will be a lobby of zealots seeking to control these rules to require locally grown foods and ban safe, less expensive, highly nutritious genetically modified foods. Perhaps they'll also ban, nuts, dairy and gluten.

A corporate officer was assigned to Soviet Russia to set up a retail outlet. After living there for a while, he decided that he needed a new suit. When at the men's clothing store, he complained to the salesman that there wasn't much choice. The salesman said that there was choice. You had your choice between blue or brown. This is the end result of how regulation works. The more regulation the fewer the choices. The fewer the choices, the easier to regulate.

I wouldn't - THEY describe and feel they are.
We all do. We don't paint ourselves as the bad guy.
Certainly they don't.
"Well-meaning" = with good intentions, regardless of the actual outcome.
We might utterly oppose those goals, but I doubt even a single socialist or fascist ever sees themselves as "ill-intentioned" when they seek the overthrow of a government or to increase their power so they can "make a difference".

We're on the same page, Maritimus, regarding the wrong direction Federal authorities are taking us at present.

But I think even when they lie to us and deceive us, they're saying to themselves, "It's necessary and for the good of all."

How many well-intentioned people have later been revealed as war criminals and worse?
Even outright criminals often consider themselves as "the victims" just getting back at society for hurting them.

I get tired of the excuses as well.
Keep speaking up!

Hi,
I have an objection to describing "Federal education organizations" as well-meaning.
I think that it is very evident that they use good EXCUSES (and promises never fulfilled) to propagate their power and ideology and find reasons to grow in size (more bureaucrats) and cost (ignore the $18T debt).
Just my opinion.
All the best.

School meals were how the Federal government got a foot into a system that was meant to be solved on a state level and in which the Federal government has no granted powers according to our Constitution.

When they want something, they threaten to remove the food program - our school systems are junkies on the food program and need to get a backbone and stop, either providing their own or otherwise cutting off the money the Federal government gives.

However, that's something the Federal government is now prepared for with increased power over testing, threat of loss of other Federal monies; not hollow accusations - it's been done, many times - check yourself.

If ever the "villains" of Rand's novels have a real life counterpart it is the well-meaning Federal education organizations.

NO one sees themselves as the bad guy.
They all do what they do for good reasons, even if it is circumvent our Constitution.

you of course mean the gov is populated by no brainers.

I thought so.

One more time that when some civil servants try to implement a program put into effect they don't use common sense. They do not observe and then understand the people who they think it is good for don't think it is good from the as has been observed all over the country. The fact that a non-civil servant was the creator so to speak of the program m0 is telling. she knows nothing and 0 gets the same direction from probably the same people.
We do not need more regulation we need for those civil servants to just go and find real jobs. They don't understand that it is not possible to actually train a cat, and the general population is developing more and more cat personalities.

"Don't Panic"

- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

;)

Had to go look, since I've used this link several times before, Yep, we finally hit $18. That didn't take long.
With interest piling up, we'll hit $19T even faster. Wheeee!
Talk to a lib about this and see him shrug. So what?

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

"What, me worry?"
-- Alfred E. Neuman

I make no such assumption, but I'm sure they did... ;)

Point. Thanks.

The gubment absolutely MUST get to the kids. They MUST! They are like a kitten with a ball of yarn...it must be seized.

This is a no brainer. Government involved? It ain't going nowhere nor accomplishing anything. Just like everything else the guvmint tries to fix.