"Currently, conservative voters are dying over 1 million per year faster than replacement. It's a shift of almost 3 million votes for the 2016 elections." The election is 1-1/2 years away. At 1 mil/year, wouldn't that be 1.5 mil, not 3 mil?

...you have been drinking "toilet to tap" your entire lives. You think animal urine doesn't make it into the rivers and groundwater supplies? Where, exactly, do you think all that stuff that goes into septic tanks goes?

The one advantage with using renewable energy for this is that since you are making a fuel that can be stored, the intermittent nature of certain sources (solar, wind) won't matter. Bright sunny day? Make fuel. Cloudy night? Just wait for the next sunny day to make fuel. No big deal.

What?

Please stop hogging all the water and send some to us. Sincerely, California

If you are a native of any kind, just start yelling that something is sacred, and nobody will be able to fight back against you.

Hate stuff being built near you? Just claim you can't build there because it is sacred ground.

Want something built, like a casino or giant housing development? Just claim the land is sacred and demand it back as 'sovereign' territory... so that you can build your casino.

You get to have it both ways!

And that 'intelligence' or 'observation' will be totally classified (you know, because of national security and stuff), so there will be no way to verify if there was actually a valid reason to break into your iPhone. But don't worry, we won't abuse this new power.

Currently the money goes to the city/police department, not the 'town'. They have a financial incentive to hand out more fines. I want the money to NOT go to the city/police department so that they will not have a financial incentive to hand out more fines. So, no, I do not want to 'increase that effect', I want to do the complete opposite.

Conflict of interest. Go look it up.

No, because right now there is no financial incentive for cops to go after more expensive cars in the hopes of getting a big payday for their department. You make the fines income based and guess who they will go after the most?

I thought about that, but then who determines what charity the money goes too, and who gets how much? The tax refund takes out any decision making (i.e. bribing) by the politicians, and individuals could donate their refund if they choose.

Can you explain what the 'very very bad surprise' would be?

If you thought it was bad how cops were targeting/ticketing poor people, wait until the police realize they can fund their whole budget if they can ticket a guy like Zuckerberg once or twice!

Before a system like this is in place, the financial incentive for cops to ticket people needs to be removed. Any fines need to be given back to the community via some type of property/income/sales tax rebate, rather than back to the city (which in essence goes back to the cops that are handing out the fines). For example, if $1,000,000 in fines were collected for a town with 10,000 property tax assessments, they could knock $100 off of each tax bill.

The same needs to be done with civil asset forfeitures. If there was ever a clearer case of conflict of interest, I haven't seen it.

The phone, motherfuckers, pick it up and CALL HIM WITH YOUR QUESTIONS!!! I am constantly amazed at how people in charge of important things can make simple tasks so convoluted.

NINE YEARS?!?!??! You went without a written contract for your work for nine years? How many years were you going to work like this? Twenty? Thirty?