Having Fun Making Dave Look Dumb

[jordan179]

On http://chris-gerrib.livejournal.com/281933.html?view=676941#t676941, daveon expresses the belief that the Laffer Curve is a fantasy (so, by implication, assuming that he knows what IS the Laffer Curve one can raise the most revenues at 100% tax rates),

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[kishiriadgr]

I'm still impressed by the fact that your online etiquette is worse than that of sf_drama. And they're /b/tards.

What makes this even worse is that I agree with you. Except for the whole "how we lose this war" thing because you still don't know your ass from your elbow about it.

[jordan179]

I'm still impressed by the fact that your online etiquette is worse than that of sf_drama. And they're /b/tards.

How dare I mention a discussion to which I posted and indicate that I would welcome others joining in! Why, didn't Hitler do that?

What makes this even worse is that I agree with you.

On the Laffer Curve, the relatively small size of the defense budget, and the dual utility of manned bombers? Ok ...

Except for the whole "how we lose this war" thing because you still don't know your ass from your elbow about it.

Ok, what do you think happens if we lose this war? We go home, they stop attacking us, peace prevails at least where America is concerned?

[kishiriadgr]

Trolling personal journals. I froth at you constantly here but do not invite others to do so.

I agree with you on the manned bombers. I admit to not knowing what a Laffer curve is.

"If by 'they' you mean the Taliban, if we left today they'd never attack here. It's not what they're interested in doing.

[chris_gerrib]

We spend more on our military then the rest of the world combined. Much of that military, including, say the B-1 and B-2 bomber, aren't particularly efficient in a counter-terrorism or counter-insurgency role. They're like using a Ferrari to go grocery shopping - one could, but clearly a station wagon would be a better vehicle.

[operations]

Yeah, and a statistic without comparison to other statistics don't mean shit.

Yes, we spend more on our military than the rest of the world combined. That is because large portions of this world don't bother with a standing military because we defend their sorry asses by virtue of treaty and military presence. For examples, much of Europe, Japan, southeast Asia, the Middle East (Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia), etc. All told, we are in 135 allied nations. Of those allied nations, almost 50% have no standing military, instead relying on our presence to deter attacks.

So, yeah, it's pretty fucking easy to spend more than the rest of the world combined when we're footing the bill for the defense of 76 fucking countries.

Which, by the way is why it is so easy for so many of those nations to give out free health care and internet. As I tell people, the health care we have now, or the health care you want with total fucking isolationism.

[kishiriadgr]

We could, yanno, stop paying other countries' bills. I'm a big fan of that idea. Let them raise their own damn armies.

[affablestranger]

I quite, much, wholeheartedly, and most vociferously agree.

[bdunbar]

You know what they say about wrestling with a pig.

[benschachar_77]

Ah Dems, Economically retarded as usual.