Recent content by tesseract

That blog reads like satire to me - are you sure it's real?

According to http://www.pollster.com/08-FL-Rep-Pres-Primary.php, he had 1% in the last FL poll by Mason-Dixon, but that was in mid-November. More recently he's been polling at ~4.3%.

Some people think their vote doesn't matter unless it goes to the winning candidate (or some variation of that). But that is exactly wrong - the winning candidate is going to win anyway, by definition, whether they got that one extra vote or not. (If an election was really decided by one vote in...

I don't think that Ron Paul wants to get rid of the SS tax immediately - otherwise, what could he mean by allowing young people to opt out of it? So SS will continue to be funded by the SS tax, but as people opt out, SS will eventually shrink over the course of a few generations. It's not fair...

Tariffs (which were the primary source of federal income before the income tax), user fees, corporate taxes (?), ... State taxes probably would increase to some extent.

There will apparently be live-updating returns at http://www.iowagop.net/

That only works if your choice is between investing in the grocery store, or stashing the money under a rock. In reality if you decided not to invest in the grocery store you would instead invest in something else. That investment would eventually lead to workers being hired, etc, thereby also...

http://www.answers.com/topic/hit-the-ground-running

Yes, and Michigan has open primaries.

Me too - mailed in my Michigan absentee ballot today.

Has he bashed Thompson yet?

Anyone got a link to the Rasmussen poll mentioned in the article? Or (better) a newer version of it?

Caucus is in the evening; there will be entrance polls but I wouldn't expect any official results until late at night or the next morning.

I'm pretty sure Dr. Paul doesn't think the IRS is illegal - the 16th amendment does seem to authorize it. He wants to get rid of it altogether but that desire is not incompatible with a desire to improve it somewhat in the meantime.

Birth certificates may not have photos, but they are valid proof of citizenship. In fact when you go to get a driver's license, state ID, or passport in the first place, a birth certificate is what you have to show in order to prove age and citizenship. It seems like a birth cert should...