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benny

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  1. Give us the link of an American discussion forum where Canadians are annoying Americans, like what you are doing here.
  2. Dying in hot waters is more attractive than dying in cold ones.
  3. It certainly works since the Laffer curve is famous in macroeconomics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
  4. In modern times, we can only speak of property transfers; the real problem is the compensation for very first appropriation.
  5. We can better afford the tax only when production necessitates fewer efforts/sacrifices.
  6. Because jails are quite unproductive infrastructures, a complete cost analysis has to include forgone incomes.
  7. A sexual identity develops sanely when babies view their fathers as models and competitors.
  8. Tax has to be linked only to the effort/sacrifice needed to earn what is taxed.
  9. I'm all for topics' second wind.
  10. A good starting point to deepening our understanding of freedom is Nietzsche's concept of the "eternal recurrence of the same". For him a normal man can become a superman by affirming the eternal recurrence of the same as an idea of value. http://knol.google.com/k/william-chapko/et...njbnk1fzy2yz/3#
  11. Sadly, a more obvious truth is that working makes people hungrier faster.
  12. "It takes a whole village to raise a child". Unfortunately, men are too much attracted by merely labor camps.
  13. Like if taxes were consumer products/services!
  14. Even a beggar can make a lot of money if only s/he takes possession of the busiest downtown street corner.
  15. Life is fragile to a point where a simple strike can kill. Most kids, early in their development, are compulsive strikers. If nothing is done properly with them, they may easily become adult re-offenders.
  16. These islands can become attractive to boat people (refugees).
  17. Freedom can be compatible to a return in the past but only if one wants to better actualize missed opportunities.
  18. To me, these native protestations are a resounding echo of the military violence that was everywhere surrounding the negotiations of past treaties between them and the Europeans.
  19. What I hear on my side is that the mother and father have often opposite education philosophies so that they end up in some kind of competition. Also, since the women more than men anticipate that, after divorces, they will end up with their children, they often seem to prepare themselves to do all the rearing tasks by themselves.
  20. Murderers have the most potential to do better if only because they start from very low or far behind.
  21. Stress is a daily experience in hierarchical societies like societies in which live most primate species.
  22. The main negative effect on GDP growth after one or two generation will come more from forfeited revenues or missed opportunities than from direct wasteful spending on jails.
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