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Comment Re:And they wonder why... (Score 4, Insightful) 562

Why is someone who uses legal tax exemptions the one to blame? How about the congresspukes who add 4,000 pages of exemptions, credits and penalties to the tax code every year?

Taxes are not merely intended to take in revenue. You don't need 80,000 pages to do that. The principal purpose of the tax code is to control, or at least influence "behavior". And we all know what the IRS is for.

Comment Re:Ultimately we do need more government intervent (Score 5, Insightful) 717

Tyranny is a small price for safety. But we still have a long way to go to eradicate all the things that bad people can use to hurt and kill good people. I mean, they haven't even collected all the guns and pressure cookers. It's will be a long time before they get around to all the sharp and jagged rocks.

Comment "It's what our customers asked for" (Score 1) 244

"It's what our customers asked for"

This is what an oem or manufacturer says when it's to their benefit and almost nobody else's. Who can prove them wrong? All they need is one or two feedbacks suggesting it and technically, they're not lying. Most people don't want to have to engineer their own cooling solution and wonder if it will be adequate or overkill.

Comment Re:The proper role of government (Score 0) 475

Unfortunately, the government has a near perfect rate of failure on such endeavors, from an economic perspective. Government subsidies are based on arbitrary, ideological and wishful thinking. OTOH, venture capitalists generally have a 5-10% success rate. They assume the risks, they reap the benefits of successes, and they drop failures when it's clear they will fail.

If you think this is an example of the proper role of government, I'd like to hear some examples of what you think the government should NOT be directly involved in.

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