So there's his chartFollow

and some people never have to work a day in their

Because they inherit billions because morons like you supported repealing the estate tax because you didn't have any idea what it was.

Are you prepared to not use any goods and/or services provided by the government in order to do so?

I hope you don't like to drive, and don't mind when people steal your stuff.

You're out of your mind. But since you feel that way let's just all of us stop paying taxes. I don't mind.

Sure. Purchase a private road system that reaches anywhere you might drive, an electrical generator that provides all of your energy needs, a private police force, army, fire service, weather forecasting service, home loan at actual non artificial market rates (around 14% probably), a mint to print copies of your currency and back it's value with collateral since your promissory conversion to commodities won't be sufficient, animal control services, a storehouse to keep the food you buy at actual market prices, delivered to you only on your privately built infrastructure, new bridges across any waterways, etc.

Once you've established that you're self sufficent and don't require handouts from the government, you can absoulutely stop paying taxes.

ETA: Oh, and also deploy a nationwide network backbone so that you can continue to post here.

Edited, Aug 12th 2008 4:17pm by Smasharoo

Banking and mortgage regulations were eased during the last year of the Clinton Administation. This alowed scumbag mortgage dealers to jump in.

Hahaha, no.

Yeah, there was no Michael Milken, no Keating Five.

To be fair, they didn't have much to do with the sub-prime lending market. I think what shadow is referring to is the current dizzying GOP sucker targeted spin that the subprime loan crisis was caused by the strengthening of The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, in the late 90's. In a nutshell it prevents banks from abjectly denying credit services based on actuarial data from geographic areas. For instance, no loans to people who live in predominately poor (or at the time, really, Black) zip codes or whatever.

The idea being this: "Well, since the government forces us to loan money to poor people, we had no choice but to do so in the most complicated, profitable, exploitive way possible, while distributing the risk across a sufficiently wide swath of the banking industry as to guarantee government intervention when, as we know is likely to happen, defaults begin to pile up."

Mine goes down more with Obama. I guess I won't have to be totally upset if he wins.