Flair > You you spiteful little douche. Christ kid you really are a miserable little puke. Sad.
Is it still realllll to you, damn it ?!
Couldnāt agree more. But itās because we have to protect ourselves from ourselves. Congress always has horrific ratings and most of them get voted back in.
Iād prefer most people not vote. I look at the slack-jawed fools I come across everyday and shudder when I think their vote counts the same as mine.
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The irony of your post is purely unintentional as you arenāt that clever.
Do you ever wonder what they think when they see you?
The problem is that people think itās the politicians from the other states who are terrible, not their own. Because they donāt want to admit they voted for someone just as bad.
Seriously, half the people are below average intelligence. Do you understand how low average intelligence is? Those people shouldnāt be voting.
What makes you think they arenāt already the bulk of the voters? Have you seen DC?
Imo itās a bit of a curse when people start to understand how āmeaninglessā their individual vote is. Ignorance is bliss
That is probably near the top of good reasons to institute the limits.
Damn framers of the Constitution, you only had one job.
Then Alabama would have no one voting.
I think this is a case of people hating on the generic group, but either completely disinterested in their representative/senator or actually like the person.
Could be. I think a big part of it is the devil you know attitude. For whatever reasons most Americans seem to think itās more risky to pick someone new than to keep rolling with what we have. You see it in presidential elections on down.
I wonder if some people donāt have a viewpoint that says something like āyeah our current guy sucks but how do we know the new guy wonāt ruin everything?ā
Looks like the more voters, the better Presidents. LOL
Does the same website publish a graph of the percentage of popular vote each sitting president won?
Itās a pretty safe bet that everyone elected with under 25% on that graph(and certainly under 20%) won with a smaller percentage(of the population) than any recent Presidents.
The politicians from my state are terrible(due to a tiny area that is a D.C. suburb). I didnāt vote for them.
3500% inflation or so since 1913 due to a government sponsored monopoly on currency comes to mind.
Weāre on T-Nation, so the Feds determine what medicines I may or may not take/import (like test) without permission from a doctor and/or legislators.
Federal regulations control: what type businesses I may work at or start, what type of lightbulb I can buy, what my clothes may be made of, who I can hire, how I can hire them, how much water is in my toilet, whether I may own arms and what type, how I may ship goods, how I may invest and interface with capital markets, whether I may leave the country etcā¦ Not an exhaustive list by any means.
Boy, good thing the feds have such a small impact on my life.
Oh yeahā¦ and they take 28% of every new dollar I make in normal FIT. Donāt get me started on SS, Medicaire, FUTA. So, depending on how I choose to earn an income (working on changing that to a better plan) I work for the federal government until roughly May 8th every year at my current income level.
Depending on who you ask the economy today would be anywhere between 33T (with 1949 regulations) to 150T+ (with 1890ās regulations) in GDP. So we have anywhere from half to 7.5% of the opportunities and prosperity that we could have had if the market we free-er.
I could rant on this for days. I think you trolled me. Well played sir.
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Small potatoes compared to what piece of land becomes a local park.
Without that, weād have people swimming in the money theyāve put away* like Scrooge McDuck! It would be awful! We needs inflations. Rafts sink unless theyāre inflated, so inflation=good.
*Please ignore that an economy would adjust to that money being gone.
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Iām always impressed with the ability of economists to say 1890s regs would have led the US to ~double the modern day planets GDP.
Double impressed that they can get people to actually believe it.
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