Recent content by paparazziparks

+1 I didn't know the Fed paid back its profits to the Treasury Dept. Seems like basic info I should know but for whatever reason either never heard it or forgot.

That's because Israel doesn't allow inspectors to visit their sites and didn't sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Their official policy is "nuclear opacity". When asked, they say, "Maybe we do, maybe we don't." They're about the only Middle Eastern country that would get away with...

All I've seen him argue is that protesting taxes, from a pragmatic point of view, in light of how well people have fared in doing so, isn't a good idea. He doesn't see it as a bulletproof enough argument to win in court, and I think he's right, just from looking at who tried to do so and their...

How correct, moral, or brave each man has been is not what I was disputing. I was disputing your claim that they "won". onlyrp said that tax protesters have lost in their court battles. You used those two people as examples to the contrary. I was pointing out that your assertion was...

Banister's famous case, where he helped Walter Thompson, didn't go too well. Thompson lost and was sent to prison. Banister was disbarred and is currently under investigation. He was also convicted of not paying taxes in 2008 for 2002 returns. In the Thompson trial, Banister claimed he paid...

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/1920s/Econ20s.htm Interesting article on WWI and WWII. Haven't read it all yet.

Debating with your dad firstly requires being respectful. Parents are used to telling their kids how the world works, not vice versa. Make your point, but don't yell at him and don't be snide. Secondly, it requires having the knowledge and confidence that your opinion is correct. He's going...

If it takes away from Romney, so long as he doesn't pass Ron Paul, then yes. However, if he's built up by the media like Santorum in Iowa (and Huck in Iowa 2008), or Huntsman in NH, it just takes away attention and votes from Paul, since the media spends days talking about the latest candidate...

I've been a fan since about fall 2007, and stopped following politics for a few years, but just joined this site recently too. He has gotten better at debates and seems to be in it to win it more than the last time. I originally thought he shouldn't run since he's in his upper seventies but...

I think he's just saying that Ron Paul's policy toward Iran, should it have a nuclear weapon, is the most sound. This guy supports the most crucial part of Ron Paul's Iran stance, even if he's (in my opinion falsely) saying that Iran has nuclear weapons capabilities. Saying Iran has no nukes...

What need? The need to destroy a country that is blockading the Strait of Hormuz because we are sanctioning them for a nuclear weapons program that doesn't exist?

I regularly invest and make much less than $1 million per year (I also make much less than $100K per year), as do many middle-income people. I believe RP is trying to boost investment in American corporations. If the capital gains tax decreases, people would be more likely to purchase stock in...

Ding Ding Ding!

You want your country to be strong enough that nobody wants to attack it. Having the strongest military in the world is one very expensive way to do it, and one downside to it is as Zippy said, you start to get cocky. You start to think you "deserve" resources from other countries and that you...