Perhaps you mean the Chinese way? Their lax restrictions on air quality is part of why there is so much manufacturing there, as it's not economically feasible in other countries such as America.

Life is hard, part break and wear out.

Like cats?

You're ignoring the fact that there are often several people and objects near to you when you are shooting. Ejected casings hit things and bounce around before hitting the ground. Personally I've had my own brass hit me or go down my shirt a few times. It happens, it's hot, and it burns.

It's the owners money to waste, and none of your concern. Or it could be like myself and others who have posted here where they need a truck 25% of the time or less but the cost of having another vehicle (econobox) is greater than the fuel savings, mostly due to high registration/road tax and insurance costs despite the fact that you can only drive one at a time. I NEED a truck to tow my trailer every weekend and to haul things for personal projects and side work. I WANT an econobox so I use save money on normal commuting and errands, however thanks to government taxes and insurance company charges there is no savings by owning an econobox in addition to a truck, it's actually more expensive.

Here it's insurance cost that makes a second vehicle more expensive. I drive my truck that gets single digits for MPG every day, simply because insurance costs for liability only on a second vehicle is more than I'd save in fuel, or close enough that any maintenance or repairs would push it over to be more expensive. Not worth the extra time and headache if I'm not saving money.

Registration (road tax) doesn't make sense per vehicle either. It's a road tax for use of the roads, and here it used to be based on vehicle weight. A motorcycle was under $20, a car was $40-$60 and a truck was $60+ depending on gross weight rating. Now everything costs about $75, per vehicle. If I have tow vehicles I'm not using the roads any more, or putting any more wear on them... In fact I would wear the roads less since I'd be driving a 2600 lbs car most of the time instead of a 6000 lbs truck all the time. Far be it for the state to do anything logical, especially if that may reduce tax income.

I don't get it, because I can only drive one at a time, so insurance should not cost any more. Liability should be solely for the driver, in any car. Comprehensive/collision/agreed value/etc. should be per vehicle or based on the most expensive/risky vehicle you drive and cover all lesser vehicles. That would make sense though, and could hurt the crooks in the insurance scheme. One person can only drive one vehicle at a given time.

Furthermore, I don't make $80/hr at my day job and when doing side work, whether IT or automotive I rarely charge at high as $80/hr... So it would be cheaper for me to do the work myself, even if it meant taking time off work, than to pay someone else to do it.

Your time is only worth something if you have something lined up where you will bring in x dollars in that timeframe which you would allot for automotive repairs. $80 shop rate + parts+markup. It's cheaper to do it myself since I don't have 16-18 hours of every day booked with money making endeavors... Unlike those like yourself who seem to bring in cash at all hours. My job afford me the flexibility to do more than just work/eat/sleep.

If you were born in America, you are an American. To call yourself anything else is disgraceful. If you were born elsewhere and became a US citizen, then it is appropriate to call yourself a -American. Such as a Frenchman who has become a US citizen, then the term French-American would be appropriate and descriptive.

I dislike it when colored people born in America call themselves African-Americans. They are not, the term is incorrect. If Africa is such an important part of your life that you must define yourself by it, then go get citizenship in an African country, in which case you'd be an American-.

Sad but true about many black communities dragging down those who try to make more of themselves. Either way, I generally refer to them as "colored people" as that seems to be the preference amongst themselves, NAACP. I dislike the term "African American", it does not apply to colored people who are not Americans and if you are an American... Any man who refers to himself as something else and then an American is not an American at all.

Perhaps not the height of my own libertarian activism but there isn't time for much more than that, and discussing politics whenever it is brought up in conversation. Personally I'm too busy working to make that other half of my income that Uncle Sam steals, If I was allowed to keep that money that I earned I would have a lot mroe time for activism... But then in that scenario it wouldn't be encessary. I suppose that's waht the socialists and neocons want, keep the peasants working as hard as they can so they can scrape by, just just shy of hard enough that they can't make do... or they'll revolt. Status quo, a vote for a socialist of a neocon is a vote for more slavery. Get back to work, tax slave.

Government can create no wealth. All government can do is take your money and restrict your freedoms. The only method government can use to accomplish those goals of thievery and coersion (or slavery, if you want to be honest about it) is violence. Everything government does is with the threat of violence.

I am not rich by any stretch. I don't have all the "necessities" that most of America seems to have, things like a TV, air conditioning, a car less than 30 years old, etc. yet I am a libertarian. Numerous threats of violence for made up "crimes" pushed me to become a libertarian. Discovering all the hidden taxes, and how "rich" I could be if government didn't take so much much of my income, well over half of what I earn, pushed me to become a libertarian. All I want is to be left alone by the government. I don't want them to take anything from me with threats of violence and I don't want to take anything from them, just a small constitutional government operating on a minimal budget to cover their minimal purposes.

Interestingly enough I find most rich people are either hardcore socialist or hardcore neocons. I know of very few rich libertarians.

Undead corpses, the dangerous kind.

Thank you. I do not have children and will not for many years, if ever. I simply cannot afford children, in large aprt as a result of the over 50% of my income taken through taxation. What I want is to pay my own way, and for others to do the same, or at least not steal from me to subsidize their expenses.

And the majority of road costs are (or at least should be) paid by local taxes and fuel/vehicle regsitration taxes. Even that portion which comes from local taxes benefits people local to those roads, as you mentioned. Would I prefer a private business free market solution? Yes, of course, as it would mean lower cost for roads than the current taxes I pay.