Comments on: Seasteading http://polizeros.com/2008/05/19/seasteading/ Musings on politics: anti-war, global warming, peak oil and otherwise Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:06:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Bob Morris http://polizeros.com/2008/05/19/seasteading/#comment-152707 Bob Morris Thu, 22 May 2008 03:38:50 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=11674#comment-152707 There was a great Bloom County comic on that once. Opus tried to imitate an angry right wing farmer reading an editorial, "I want the darned government to get off my back - and where's my farm subsidy check for not growing crops", but couldn't because he kept giggling. There was a great Bloom County comic on that once. Opus tried to imitate an angry right wing farmer reading an editorial, “I want the darned government to get off my back - and where’s my farm subsidy check for not growing crops”, but couldn’t because he kept giggling.

]]> By: woody http://polizeros.com/2008/05/19/seasteading/#comment-152679 woody Tue, 20 May 2008 23:12:04 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=11674#comment-152679 I say good, go for it! Maybe that would get some of the ultra-libertarian (and ultra-conservatives) a taste of what their tax dollars do. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of waste in the government (the war for example), but a good chunk of it goes to things the biggest complainers use with great zeal. I get so sick when people moan about taxes and in the same breath complain about road or bridege repairs inconveniencing their commute, or boast how well their kid is doing in school. The disociation of taxes and their use is second only to that of the food chain here in the US. (I once knew an adult woman who was mortified because the chicken nuggets that were fed to her son at school were cut into the shape of a chicken, no joke.) I say good, go for it! Maybe that would get some of the ultra-libertarian (and ultra-conservatives) a taste of what their tax dollars do. Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of waste in the government (the war for example), but a good chunk of it goes to things the biggest complainers use with great zeal.

I get so sick when people moan about taxes and in the same breath complain about road or bridege repairs inconveniencing their commute, or boast how well their kid is doing in school. The disociation of taxes and their use is second only to that of the food chain here in the US. (I once knew an adult woman who was mortified because the chicken nuggets that were fed to her son at school were cut into the shape of a chicken, no joke.)

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