August1991

I agree. Trump likes winners - and this guy Scott is a winner.

Let me return to my OP: 1. You Americans have no federal sales tax. IOW, your federal government is not able to impose a sales tax on your citizens. (All economists agree that a VAT is the best way to tax: Tax consumption, not income.). 2. Conscription? The ultimate tax is when men (women?) are forced to serve.

I don;t remember that. It was a fix of a previous sales tax.

Honest, reason10, I had to go back and look at those Amendments. (18th? Totally agree. Progressives and the damage they can do.) The 16th? I don't get it except that you Americans at the time were opposed to "trusts" - monopoly power. Last point: I agree about "fair share". In a democracy, we should each have something to contribute - or to lose. We should all have a stake in the game.

Michael, Please fork this thread. a) I was surprised to learn that downtown Chicago was a walkable city. b) Children learn in many ways.

Myata, I suspect that your post was written by AI. Whatever. ==== In summer 1914, Europe was civilised. And then, an elite lead everyone into a disaster that lasted for thirty years. Make no mistake: Future generations will not refer to WWI, the Depression and WWII. They will refer to the period between 1914-1945 as the "Wars". Nowadays, if remembered, the 1789-1815 is known as the "Napoleonic Wars". And the Thirty Years war? When Sweden intervened? Who knows that.

I am tired of hiring these these terms used by the State-paid media. IMHO, these are journalists - like those who worked for Pravda - who defend the status quo.

Clueless. In America. Maybe.

We have a peace, I am struggling to understand why a civiised society - in 1914- commits suicide.

People are people. Indviduals, whatever. As you wish.

I am Canadian. I know Americans - ordinary American people. The USA does not want the destruction of Europe.

You Americans have no federal sales tax: you have no federal consumption tax. A federal VAT. (We in Canada do.) Other countries can impose such taxes.

How civilised societies collapse, I don't know. This is not the 1930s. We are not facing Hitler. It is the 1910s. ===== We need a new structure of peace.

Disagree. Levesque favoured a new arrangement.

Disagree. People like Pierre Trudeau and Rene Levesque had something original to say. And trust me, both were show-men.

Putin has no desire to occupy Lemberg. ==== In the 1990s, after the Soviet Union, a Kissinger world was possible.

Russia will make western Ukraine something like Belorus. All of this could have been avoided - so much death and destruction for no reason. And there is the terrible risk of nuclear warheads ==== Negotiate: I ask my government to negotiate. Talk. Seek peace. Stop this death and destruction.

Independent? What a word. Sustainable is not the same as survival. ==== I'm with Mulroney/Diefenbaker/Trudeau: we get along.

People on Iceland have a sustainable society. Newfoundland is sustainable. Bulgarians - they too are sustainable.

Whatever. ==== Make no mistake. Women have given birth, people have managed to live in Iceland and Newfoundland for centuries.

Disagree. Trudeau Snr was always interesting. Like Levesque, both had a way of saying something new. ====== I wish both were alive to say what they thought about this war in Ukraine-Russia.

3. How did he do that? 4. Disagree.

Michael. I disagree. Money (paper promises) matters

And is any Democrat politician any different? Is Merrit Garland independent? ===== Around the world, we know that Trump is a fraud. You Americans - de Nero, Redford etc - foolishly believe that Biden is not.

Rubio poses the problem of state residency. (Trump could move - he's obviously a New Yorker.) If I were Trump, I would choose Scott. But what do I know.