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Lefty Shrugged

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Commodore, Jan 21, 2013.

  1. tallanvor

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    You want country first? Go to China. In America the individual comes first (thus the emphasis on individual rights). Libertarians and Conservatives both love an individual-first country, thus they love America (a country that recognizes individual freedom).
     
  2. Rocketman95

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    And I have my right to pity this poor soul who makes more in one weekend hitting a tiny ball around for 72 holes than the vast majority of Americans will make in their lifetime. If he's that ungrateful that he was able to be raised in a country where this is possible, then I hope he leaves.
     
  3. Svpernaut

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    Obama has played 112 rounds of golf during his presidency. He might care what Lefty has to say.

    Since when is complaining about taxes make you ungrateful of your country (he is referring to a state by the way)? Strike me as ungrateful then.
     
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  4. Rocketman95

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    I'm sure Obama's giving him the pity he deserves for making potentially millions of dollars a weekend for hitting a tiny ball around.

    Done.
     
  5. rocketsjudoka

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    Except for those who want to secede since Obama was reelected.
     
  6. Haymitch

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    Oh, you. You know better at this point yet you still act so ignorant. Why, glynch, why????
     
  7. Nook

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    I am calling bull**** on this one.
     
  8. Nook

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    Sure sounded like Phil did...
     
  9. SamFisher

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    Obviously, it did stop you, because you apparently stopped paying attention around 2010, which is why you were caught off-guard by the recent news of their budget balancing. However this doesn't mean it happened overnight. It's the result of a series of changes including tax increases and spending cuts that the state has put in place starting in 2010 after Jerry Brown took over.
     
  10. FranchiseBlade

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    I own a home in California. Real Estate taxes here aren't really that expensive. Taxes here have been crazy in the past where middle income tax rates would be more than upper income tax rates, but thankfully that has been changing.

    Also is your friend cheating the law? If he has his real estate license here in California and is selling properties here, I don't see how he could claim all his business was out of state.
     
  11. Svpernaut

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    I wasn't surprised at all. I spent 4 nights at a dive bar shooting the **** with locals in LA last month, including the bar owners.

    No, sorry if I wasn't clear. His real-estate license and all of his holdings are here. He just is from San Diego and has a house there... but it is far easier and less of a gamble to make money in real-estate here.
     
  12. glynch

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    Heymitch, we know you have your secret handshakes and special knowledge from your small meetings that only the initiates partake of.

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    See tallanover and others above who understand how un American and un-patriotic the vision is.
     
  13. TL

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    Why does anyone care about a golfer's opinion on taxes? Someone who cites his social security taxes when stating he has a 60 something tax rate?

    Dumb people are dumb
     
  14. Haymitch

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    9100 Gulf Freeway at 8:00am this Saturday. No special handshakes needed. Ron Paul will be there. You can express your feelings/disgust in person rather than just Clutchfans.
     
  15. SamFisher

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    Wow - including the OWNERS.....I was about to laugh and mock you until you that little tidbit surfaced. I mean, not just anybody can run in that company.

    Can you ask your sources to confirm this nugget?

    California debt rating upgraded after forecasting budget surplus
     
  16. Johndoe804

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    Patriotism and nationalism are bull****. Why should I be supportive of a system that doesn't give a damn about me, and parades about acting as though it is the savior of mankind? I can't understand how you can support it. Patriotism and nationalism seem to be another way for the few to control the many, and for the many to scorn the individual.
     
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  17. SamFisher

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    That's why you need to break away to form Rapture along with visionary Andrew Ryan, to free yourself from such parasitism.
     
  18. Johndoe804

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    I'm sure you think your comments are snappy and fashionable, but anybody with half-a-brain can see that you're a one-trick-pony on this board, doing nothing but spouting ad hominem in what you arrogantly believe is witty and sophisticated, but is actually neither.

    Props to you, SamFisher.
     
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  19. SamFisher

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    It's not really fashionable, BioShock came out YEARS ago.

    Not quite in the moment, and not quite long enough for a retro-cool type reference.

    Anyway, I'd love to offer more and have a long-ass debate on Ayn Randism on the internet but OH MY GOD HELL NO I WOULDN'T. I also don't want to debate the Albigensian heresies, your Thetan levels, or other like nonsense
     
  20. Rashmon

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    Now you've gone too far Sam, you leave the Albigensians out of this, they suffered enough.
     

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