Comments on: The Five Worst Laws in US History

By: Bail Bonds San Cruz CA

Bail Bonds San Cruz CA — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:37:06 +0000

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By: andy

andy — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:06:19 +0000

The stock market crashed in ’29. The depression — characterized by high unemployment, deflationary price action, inability to access credit, starvation, etc — didn’t start kicking into full-gear until at least a year later. Liken 1929 to 2008, and we’ll see if 2009-20X turns out to be like 1930-19X.

TrixRabbi: public education and law enforcement are great, but nearly all of that is locally funded through property and sales taxes, and state income taxes. There’s a difference between saying, “we need some form of tax revenues” and “we need a federal income tax.” Consider that most fed-level expenditures are debt service, military or social security/medicare. I can definitely do without the debt service! And in theory, SS is already funded directly through payroll taxes. This year should be a bit different though… that income tax has given the central bank a way to bailout our financial institutions, so a good portion of this year’s expenditures will go to Wall Street. Still like that federal income tax?

I’m right with the author on the Patriot Act and right with TrixRabbi on the drug war.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:16:36 +0000

I think the patriot act is one giant shredding of the 4th, 1st, 5th, and 6th Amendments, which is why I added it to this list.

Paying taxes is generally just a giant whine from me, but I do actually believe that giving governments more money only causes them to enact more legislation and provides the resources to enforce. Marijuana would be de facto legal were it not for all of the money poured into the DEA to enforce ridiculous drug laws.

The depression began in 29 and and Smoot Hawley was enacted later. I don’t believ there is any debate that this tariff exacerbated the economic problems

By: odd logic

odd logic — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:02:00 +0000

if the great depresssion began on october 29 1929 and the smoot hawley tariff was ennacted on june 17 1930, almost a year later, i dont see how it could be considered a precursor to something that was already going on.

By: TrixRabbi

TrixRabbi — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:40:06 +0000

Replace Income Tax with drug prohibition and I’ll agree. The Income tax helps the country so much. Sure, paying it sucks, but without it education, law enforcement and all sorts of other government sponsored necessities would be even worse off than they are now.

Drug prohibition on the other hand sends non-violent weed smokers to prison, costing the tax payers millions each year to keep them there, fuels the black market giving violent street gangs 95% of their income, and limits the freedoms of the general public in general. When they tried alcohol in the twenties it failed miserably, why do they keep wasting money on this?