Recent content by Dr.No.

Crap. Lies like this: There are no taxes on exports. The South was hardly an import economy; the North paid the vast majority of the import taxes.

Should Germany erect statues to Nazi soldiers? After all, many Germans were forced to fight in the war and didn't believe in the Nazi ideology.

The top .1% (not sure if they meant .1% or really .01%) paid about 28% of their gross income in taxes (federal, payroll, state, local, w/o sales tax) in 2013. In 1972 the top 1% paid a 35% rate and the top .1% paid a 49% rate. In the 1950s the top 1% paid a rate of 42% and the top .1% paid 51%.

15-year-depression: http://www.thedailycrux.com/content/1333/US_dollar http://ronpaulsurvivalreport.blogspot.com/2008/02/shocking-news-ron-paul-predicts.html?m=1\...

That's as much a result of technological innovations than anything else.

Ron Paul, Paul Schiff, Peter Schiff, and people like them have been preaching doom and gloom forever. Plus, there are their ideological biases. They call 20% of the reason why a recession will happen, and when it does, claim that the 20% was the 100%.

Well, Peter Schiff has called twenty two of the last two recessions.

Just because the rule was in place, doesn't make the water clean. I'm all for the legal system letting people sue states and water companies for providing tainted water.

Didn't Ron use dynamic scoring in his own budget?

Slavery? No one is forcing the guy to be a baker. All we are saying that if he wants to be a baker, there are certain rules he has to follow. This is why I mentioned that this is a distraction. Taxes and regulations have real consequences. They really stifle businesses, growth, etc. But...

I suppose the idea is that a business isn't being forced to do something it doesn't do, but being forced to do something it does. IE, a Chinese restaurant doesn't serve tacos. But they can serve egg rolls to everyone. You can just as easily say that if you don't want to respect the norms and...

You are equating the Nuremberg laws with anti-discrimination laws?

One way to see it is that Colorado already has laws that force public accomodations to serve people regardless of that persons's status. I'm not sure why the Colorado baker thinks he is above the law. Plus, equal protection and all that.

Hmm, no, I think that is not a correct assessment of the situation. The fact is that Americans tend to have the "dream big" mentality. The idea of telling a kid, even someone who is 12 or 13 that college maybe isn't for them, and that they should go to a trade school (like they do in many other...

Scott Sumner mentioned recently that there is a bit of a geographical issue. There is a lot of demand, for example, for construction workers in the coasts. There are a lot of people who could do construction work in the middle of the country, where there isn't much demand. Getting people to move...