Mark & Juanita wrote:
Frankly, the idea that in order for someone to be able to discuss the
merits/demerits of socialized, collectivized, or other re-distributionist
command economy approaches they must complete that reading list or be
considered unworthy of debating the points is beyond absurd and elitist.

Morris Dovey wrote:
Perhaps so - and on the other hand there are those who believe that
skimming Cliff Notes or a Schaum Outline is sufficient to consider
themselves educated in a subject area.

This reminds me when I was a younger man and running Unix System V which
came with a ton of utilities including AWK, a text processing language.
The documentation for AWK was about 2 pages double spaced. It was the
most amazing and concise documentation I've ever come across. Many
books have been written to teach AWK programing, but if you were smart
enough, and determined enough, about everything was contained in those 2
pages of super concise writings.

Any how, any goof that thinks he needs to read that list of crap Tom
posted to get a working definition of socialism has some sort of
learning deficiency.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=1&q=socialism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
http://www.allwords.com/query.php?Se...!&Language=ENG
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/searc...fine=socialism

Shouldn't take more than a few minutes reading any of the definitions of
socialism to understand whats up with it. Moreover, if Tom wants to
discuss a definition or explain what he's learned after reading all that
crap, he should say something other than give people a reading list. If
what he's learned differs from what any of the above sources define as
socialism, then he is free to make his case.

A good compromise solution might be to boost short-term capital gains
taxes (to discourage disruptive speculation) and simultaneously
decreasing long-term capital gains taxes (to encourage responsible
investment).

There is already a different rate for short and long term capital gains.
Not sure what problem boosting that will solve, other than pushing the
fast and loose gambler to the government run gambling casinos and
lotteries? Personally, I think they should boost short term capital
gains taxes by elimination of long term capital gains taxes.

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Jack
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