Cripes. Please point out where I called you personally a "Marxist." Hell, you aren't even a registered Democrat.
You talked about churches using "force," i.e. threats of hell, to promote charity. I said that from my personal experience of many years that that was bullshit for most Christians, and I stand by it. That there may be a few churches where your assessment is accurate is no doubt true, (although even the LDS says tithing is voluntary, and certainly nobody is threatened by hellfire.) If so, they are by far the minority. Please don't judge organized religion by the Brother Love's Traveling Show refugees you have around there.
I said that the Democratic Party is, in the area of economics, about wealth redistribution, particularly when it buys them votes, and I stand by that, too.
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- Serious Insecurities concerning Social Security 'Reform'
- My plan to reform Social Security
- Thats actually a pretty good idea, IMO
- If it "over-funds" the system, just cut the tax rate. Simple. (n/t)
- The system is currently overfunded as it is
- Not if it is to become a VESTED system with assets backing liabilities.
- re: The system is currently overfunded as it is
- I could live with that.
- Thats actually a pretty good idea, IMO
- Not to mention the dark secret that people are only just realizing..
- The only true fix for SS
- More to the point
- re: No big secret.
- Tom hit the BS buzzer
- So the fix is to simply confiscate more and more money?
- Further, they always claim that it must get worse and worse
- Bartleby the Scrivener
- Does anyone else see the political weirdness here?
- Not my problem, Tom, that you have a propensity for strawman arguments and distorting positions you disagree with
- More on the Amazing Vanishing Social Security Crisis
- The DNC choice to take the position that after all the years of claiming there was a crisis, now there isn't one, will not hold up. (n/t)
- again
- correction, misread something Tom said
- More on the Amazing Vanishing Social Security Crisis
- Not my problem, Tom, that you have a propensity for strawman arguments and distorting positions you disagree with
- Tom hit the BS buzzer
- What Ed said.
- Very good points
- My plan to reform Social Security