"Should be fun."

Should be a "fun" instant civil war.

"So, is it surprising that the company ... is having problems connecting with the general population in 2014?"

Stupid loaded question. It is not having problems "connecting with the general population", unless by "connecting" you mean a completely different verb.

"influence" is an unmeasurably fuzzy concept that includes the effect of parents upon children, media personalities upon its adoring audience, and writers of leftist philosophy books upon those of us less burdened with intellect. :-) You surely don't mean to equalize all of those.

"Anyway, the rich guy would have a great advantage over a poor guy and that's quite contrary to the one man, one vote principle of democracy."

By my count, the rich guy gets the same number of votes as the poor guy. You were saying ... ?

I'm sorry, that doesn't answer the question. The difficulty of one task vs. another are not that relevant if those tasks aren't substitutes for one another.

Regulations also differ - as do local market conditions.

Why do you believe statutory reform is necessary, or sufficient to accomplish anything serious? Why do you believe it is a precondition of a constitutional-amendment path?

Sorry, you're worth (in your job) exactly what you're paid, by definition.

If federal funds were limited to spending on projects where federal scope were well-argued, there'd be no problem. But if they are simply mushy wushy redistributive transfers to go to sidewalks and local buses and stuff like that, then it's a scam.

" it hits hardest those with the least assets and thus must sell their time as labor."

The poor sods ... must sell their time as labor ... as in "work for a living". It is to weep for.

... dropping the transit, walking, and such goo out of the federal outlays, and leave it to relevant localities.

Well expressed. May the grievance industry someday grow up or at least be laughed at with the derision it deserves.

"It's a slimy, empty, political victory,"

Remember what this was about - the IRS actively impeding a particular political organization. That's not an "empty" matter.

Not just that. A key quote from TFA: "My job is to make sure my employees go home safe." Police leadership whose priority is on their own safety is more likely to view the populace as a problem instead of as the recipient of service. They are more likely to do no-knock night-time raids ... because if it saves just one [police] life, sure it's worth burning that baby with a flash-bang.

There are few problems for which the former enron adviser's solution is not more government or more taxes.