I'll vote for the M1. When I get to picking up long guns that'll probably be one of the first I'll pick up. I still have a handful more pistols I'd like to pick up. That and I think I might need shoulder surgery before I shoot a rifle or shotgun much. Shooting with friends and even a handful of rounds with that and my shoulder is pretty banged up. Doctor says, no more monkeys jumping on the bed, er, I mean he says there are spurs or chips in the shoulder joint.

The website is slow/dead. Do they do flash/java/other non-open source software?

I've never heard of mepis. What is the claim to fame?

My point is it is our spending which is unsustainable. And as a nation, we'll need to have business succeeding to maintain or gain tax revenue.

How would an additional tax on you, who is drawing unemployment, benefit anyone? Even if we confiscate billions from the "rich", how are they going to help create jobs? Taxing business is going to drive them over seas. If you are in the tax categories which are going to be hit, wouldn't you simply move out of the country?

Well, for starters he has contracted out with out of state suppliers to provide pallets when the current orders are too large, not that is likely an issue at the moment. Second, the more he pays to the government, in the form of direct taxes or regulation the less he people he is able to employ. If he cannot make a profit he will simply close up shop and everyone is hurt by higher unemployment, less taxes, and no product being created. One example of regulation is that we live out in farm country which has been zone residential, and because of that he is unable to run his business in a barn on his 20+ acres of land, instead having to pay to rent a place which would pay two people's salaries.

You were not terribly concise, so I may have mis-read the part where you suggest temporarily raising taxes. But are you insane!?! The last thing we need at the moment is to raise taxes.

Of the small business owners I talk to, every one of them are already struggling. My neighbor, who has a pallet shop was at 20ish employees a few years back is down to 3, himself, his wife, and one other guy. He is considering closing up shop and just brokering pallets, but having another shop do the work while he does the shipping. Why? Because between taxes and the general anti-business environment at the state and federal level. Every business other than those suckling at the government teat is struggling.

What we need is the federal government to get it's grabby claws out of anything other than national defense and securing private property which would cut spending considerably. The state governments can do whatever they are allowed to at the state level, but one would hope for less government there.

The solution to make the government live on a sustainable budget is to limit it to the Constitutional boundaries. When you get in debt, you don't cut your income, you change your spending habits. Cut the luxuries and excesses that put you in debt in the first place.

Exploitation of natural resources does not make sense. If you are capable of interstellar travel you will likely pick closer targets to get your resources. Nor are you likely to pick them up from the bottom of a gravity well when there are so many other places to get them, like asteroid belts. The idea of enslaving other planets seems pretty silly. At that point in a races development they are likely to have the majority of their work automated and it will be mostly mental type labor they would need. Which I doubt they would consider humans terribly useful for such labor.

If you are capable of traversing great distances like this, the only reason to pick fights are xenophobia or resettlement. If it is xenophobia we are likely toast, they are light years (pun only slightly intended) ahead technologically. If it is resettlement, they might be hostile, but just as likely willing to coexist or keep looking.

So what is the process for doing something on Cafe Press? Do you need to pay to create items and then recoup after sales? I can think of a few things I'd be interested in doing, but didn't realize how it worked.

So, do you get a cut for each of these?

And now you are just getting stupid. But hey. That's fine. We need those people too, I guess.

Lets see. I said short term. I said strategic. Tobacco, dairy, corn, and many others do not fit either category. Therefore, one would have to assume I do not support them.

In general I am against business subsidies. There are certain cases where it might make sense for short term to allow retooling of an industry, but it would require special consideration. Such instances might be in the case of losing a strategic manufacturing capability and a short term investment would allow a retooling to allow the country to retain the capability.

I'm not interested in pushing to legalize drugs. If it happens great. But I'm also not interested in legalizing jay walking either. You really seem on fire for legalizing drugs, which is great. Go at it. Any further comments on the topic will be ignored.

Property rights can be enforced (contamination, past the property line, etc...) just fine without a business registering. Additionally, I am against business taxes beyond property taxes. Taxes simply increase the cost of goods which is then passed along to the customer, hurting the poor the most. And as far as business subsidies I am in general against them.

In general I am for tax cuts. I'm even more in favor of spending cuts and trimming the Federal government to constitutional limits of national defense and protection of property rights. Any of the rest of the over extended arm of the current Federal government ought to be the realm of the states or dissolved completely.

People aren't suffering in prison for jay walking. But here again, I suppose you(editorial) need to trivialize it to avoid dealing with it. "dehumanize" the enemy, that's the ticket.

And now you are just trolling.

For the middle part of your comment...

I think the idea that the government issues licenses to run a business is wrong. The idea that I must first seek permission to have a livelyhood is repulsive and serves no one but statists and existing businesses. Some of the early proponents of licensing business were done in the south by racists to prevent blacks from starting their own businesses. Same with minimum wage laws. And a number of other government interventions into free markets.

The last comment was also more trolling. I have been consistently against government bailouts and you will find my posting history reflects that.

It isn't on their radar. But then neither do they have a plank on jay walking. The folks behind this movement define the movement. Get involved if you want to influence the movement. Or better yet start your own focused on decriminalizing drugs.

A private business should have the right to freely associate with whomever they want. Therefore, if they make it a requirement to drug test their employees, so be it. If they only drug test the employees who have blue eyes, that is their call.

I have fairly strong libertarian tendencies, so I wouldn't have a problem with legalizing the use of most/all drugs that are currently illegal. I'm all for letting our normal laws of driving while intoxicated and such in place. But then even beyond a druggies paradise I am all for allowing employers to put restrictions on drug use and testing their employees all they want to enforce their policies. Personal liberty has to also allow people to fail.