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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
... legendary investor Ray Dalio,
Wikipedia fails to mention that he is legendary.Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Phat writes:
On the contrary, I'm a highly visible and highly vocal member of the peanut gallery. I could damn near have my own gallery. ... the facts show that you are just another member of the peanut gallery.![]() Phat writes:
But we can only assess you by what you post - and that's getting pretty ugly. And I could be an honest and good Christian according to my own ego and my Pastor... As I said before, you don't need yet another topic to post the same-old same-old garbage in. Go back and answer the rebuttals in all of the other topics.Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Phat writes:
That's like asking what floats a boat apart from the water. What backs the Dollar, apart from the faith of the people?Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Theodoric writes:
Water kills! We should float boats on something better than water. Water is not stable.Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Phat writes:
Would that be a dusty old rock? Build your house upon the Rock.Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Phat writes:
I'll refer you again to John Stuart Mill:
You, on the other hand, only vilify Republicans.quote:Vilifying stupid people coincidentally vilifies Republicans. And vilifying evil people coincidentally vilifies Republicans.Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Phat writes:
And as I have told you many, many, many times, that is all I ever advocate.
The argument, primarily directed at ringo, is that a government has no right to utilize everyone's money in any emergency except what they legally collect in taxes. Phat writes:
Taxes are always confiscatory. You guys put people in prison for tax evasion.
Taxes can never be confiscatory, even if the planet was starving. Phat writes:
You have said repeatedly that you don't want to be equal with the poor. I am not saying fuck off to everyone on the planet.Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Phat writes:
It does. Are you going to try to argue that it doesn't?
Now I suppose you will bring up the philosophy of how a rising tide lifts all boats. Phat writes:
No need to pretend. They are.
Let's say that people in the US were actually starving. Phat writes:
It would be fair. I don't know what you mean about "my" 3 peeps.
Let's say the government (of, by and for the people, right?) mandated 60% taxes across the board. My point is that you would consider it a fair game (and legal if your 3 peeps were in power) Phat writes:
I have said that to you. How DARE you?
You will now say how dare I prefer to have a private property while my neighbors starve. Phat writes:
But you're not doing it. You're the priest and the Levite who avoided helping the man that the Good Samaritan eventually helped. Do you understand that the Samaritan is the good guy in that story?
Feeding them is up to me...not to a kum ba yah government. Phat writes:
Read the Book of Job. Satan is God's minion. You once thought satan had a bum rap!Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Phat writes:
We already have digital currency. Where have you been for the past forty years?
Bidens push for digital currency... Phat writes:
I have told you before, when my brother died, we had access to his bank statements. Every cup of coffee he bought at Tim Hortons was on there. ...may mean that even small transactions can be tracked. And why not? It would be dishonest for you to hide your financial transactions. That's how they got Al Capone.Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Phat writes:
The "offshore system" that you touted recently is cheating. Why don't you define what cheating is?Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Phat writes:
I've been trying to. Why don't you respond? It's fair game to discuss digital currency in this thread. Lets talk about that.Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Phat writes:
What exactly are you observing that gives you such definitive information on his assholery? He either is or is not an "asshole" not based on his party affiliation or his wealth but on his observable performance.Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Phat writes:
Sure, everybody did that a hundred years ago. But the point is that today, most of your transactions are already being tracked. You don't need to worry about that horrible Joe Biden doing what was already done forty years ago.
But what if your brother had cashed out his paycheck, government check or whatever and paid cash for all of his coffee and items which he purchased? You would be none the wiser. Phat writes:
IS being tracked - unless you're hiding it in your "overseas system".
If every single transaction ever made could be tracked... Phat writes:
You don't get to decide what's "necessary".
If every single transaction ever made could be tracked, you would be hounded by regulations beyond what is necessary. Phat writes:
And most likely illegal. In Saskatchewan, you have to register your car and its value will be assessed for insurance purposes, regardless of what you paid for it or how you got it.
As an example, say I wanted to trade my car for a better one and my neighbor agreed to swap cars if I gave him cash. Under the old system, the exchange would be private. Phat writes:
Is already, and has been for years. Why is it that nobody on YouTube knows that? Under the new system, everything one does would be tracked and recorded. Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion (in 1931 for God's sake) because he was spending more than he was reporting as income. There were records.
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Of course not. Surely even Wild-West Colorado must require you to insure your car. Your insurance is based on your car's value - and any goober can take one glance at your car and look up the blue book value.
Am I not free to buy a car from a private seller and not have the value exchange tracked so obsessively? Phat writes:
Stop saying you agree with things I never said. I do NOT agree with that.
While I agree that wealthy individuals should be watched closer for tax evasion than a hundred dollar winner at a casino.... Phat writes:
And should be. See Al Capone.
... under the new system EVERYONE is held accountable. Phat writes:
No they don't. They want to BE big government.
Conservatives rightly detest big government... Phat writes:
Conservatives want to control every woman's body. Conservatives want to control what chemicals you ingest. Shall I go on?
... and obsessive control over everyone's private lives. Phat writes:
You want the unequally rich to be allowed to hide their money offshore. Their refusal to pay their share of taxes impinges on YOUR freedom. This gets back to the differing ideologies of freedom and equality.Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Phat writes:
You're missing the part where you explain in your own words what you understand about what you quoted. Am I missing something?Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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ringo Member (Idle past 771 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Phat writes:
So do you repudiate the "overseas system"?
I don't cheat nor do I advocate cheating. Phat writes:
How is you paying less taxes going to fix that? The US is going into another level of debt relative to GDP.Come all of you cowboys all over this land, I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command: To hold a six shooter, and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. -- Woody Guthrie
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