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Comment Re:Unnecessary (Score 1) 324

So I guess America was NOT income tax free from 1776 until 1913, since clearly no system could ever work without it...

I guess there must not be ANY countries in the world today without an income tax either.

oh wait...

Maybe not maintaining a massive intercontinental war machine was easier on the wallet, or something?

Comment Re: Now the USA need to stop censoring movies for (Score 5, Informative) 234

It was funny watching The Martian, and thinking to myself, here is NASA without a rocket it needs. Where is SpaceX, Blue Origin, or any of the other reality based (or movie mock up) version of the private industry?

You might want to try reading a book instead. The emergency rocket was Chinese in the source novel. But I'm sure Weir just did that to ensure he'd sell an extra billion books, right?

Comment Re:Show me the money! (Score 4, Informative) 269

Once again, death is not the only consequence of catching COVID. Some people are still recovering from infections they got in the early pandemic. America has superiour healthcare in many respects, and I'm sure that's cutting down on deaths, but that's no reason to be ignoring other effects of the infection. It's a bit like using only deaths as a metric of treatment success for gunshot wounds, while ignoring lifelong injuries and why people get shot in the first place.

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