Comment Tax? (Score 1) 167

by gloryhallelujah on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @11:05PM (#51176521) Attached to: Investigation Into Security Director Who Hacked the Lottery Expands

It's only a tax on the stupid if you don't know what a tax is. Taxes are imposed.

Comment Re:Ayn Rand was right. (Score 1) 381

by gloryhallelujah on Thursday June 03, 2010 @02:47PM (#32448762) Attached to: FTC Staff Discuss a Tax on Electronics To Support the News Business

It's frightening just how much modern American government has become like the nightmare Statist government in Ayn Rand's novels, constantly meddling with and attempting to control market forces that it and it's members are incapable of understanding or wanting to understand.

Regardless of what you may think of her personally, she was prescient.

There's a fatal flaw in your analysis: It is the oligarchy who are meddling with government, creating a corporatist state, lobbying for legislation to increase their advantage and funnelling public tax dollars into corporate coffers. Not at all like Rand's statist government.

Oh, and by the way, fuck Ayn Rand

Comment Let's not forget (Score 3, Interesting) 561

by gloryhallelujah on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @10:38AM (#27050821) Attached to: The Formula That Killed Wall Street

amidst all this chatter about economics and models that what we're really talking about here is gambling. The wealthy made bets on red and black and then they bought insurance on their bets and the bets of others. Ultimately, they gambled that the Casino (America) and it's croupiers (AIG, Morgan Stanley, Citi, etc.) had assets sufficient to pay off the bets. They were wrong and they lost but refuse to hand over their chips. The real problem is that we don't have a couple of guys with baseball bats to do the collections.