Imagine the 2 largest cities in a state had 51% of the population. Those cities could and most likely would come together and simply siphon resources from the rural areas. They can just funnel all the funding for schools, police, roads to their cities to buy local votes and ignore everyone else.

At the national level the same can be said of states. In your scenerio all the people in the red area on this map wouldn't have a voice in government at all. http://politicalmaps.org/wp-co...

If not then why would Amazon being paying any taxes? Of course I'm under the assumption Amazon still hasn't made any money, if that's changed then I must have missed it...

The US government sitting on knowledge of vulnerabilities is to public safety as not putting out a wet floor sign in the hopes that a terrorist will slip and fall is to crime prevention.

In that case spew your carbon footprint all over the planet because of "progress" or something...

Why does no one ever mention the carbon footprint of space tourism? Slashdot spends a lot of time telling me about the dangers of greenhouse gasses and global warming, but is there a more irresponsible endeavor than space tourism when discussing Climate Change?

maybe they can teach Google the trick. My wife's Note 2 was taking 15 or so seconds to open the messaging or camera apps and finally today I just did a hard reset and started from scratch.

How many atheists, Christians, and Jews are members of the Palestinian government?

That "handful of pesky terrorists" happen to be the elected Palestinian government. This is what happens when people elect terror organizations as their representatives...

Republicans should love it because it hurts the working poor and illegals disproportionately.

Where I'm from, flyover country, poor people are much more likely to drive 15-20 year old clunkers (dodge durango's, jeep cherokee's, and other big heavy vehicles seem to be super popular with the poor here), they also tend to have longer commutes due to fewer job opportunities and less mobility when it comes to housing.

We're not even talking about the indirect costs. When the price of fuel goes up everything is affected. People like me will easily absorb those costs while the people living paycheck to paycheck will suffer. I drive a 7 year old Honda Civic, and I'm lucky enough that I telework. The mechanic who changes my oil, the AC repair guy who spends a large part of his income on fuel for service calls, and the people who work in the restaurants where I eat and the stores where I shop will probably be forced to give something up.

Sure, it will affect me like a bucket of water affects my swimming pool I guess. I'm not wealthy, not even close, but even if the cost of everything I buy was increased by the same 3% increase to the price of a gallon of gas my lifestyle wouldn't change in the slightest...

12 cents won't affect me one bit. It certainly won't change my driving habits. The poor on the other hand.. well, let's just say if you're living on a fixed income and/or are already below the poverty line a nice big regressive tax might sting a little...

Kaiser users his charities as a tax write off and then funnels money back into his for profit businesses from them.This guy spent much of the 80's-90's "buying" dead and dying companies so that he could use their losses to offset his gains and pay zero taxes on his profits. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

This is the guy who bilked half a billion from the American taxpayer.

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There are 60 or so chemical elements found in every person on the planet, almost all of which can be "toxic". The 5 'symptoms' listed are all pretty common. I would bet you'd be hard pressed to find a household that hasn't had someone with 1 or all of them at some point in any given 12 month period...