Then all the criminals who could afford it would arm themselves, and crime would skyrocket.

Because 2 wrongs make a right? Pit bulls are a threat to society, and should all be sterilized, while any involved in an unprovoked mauling should be executed.

"Trickle-down" is a deliberately chosen, inaccurate perjorative. It is "Supply-Side economics," and it has worked fabulously every time it has been tried, It's counterpart, Demand-Side Economics (which, as opposed to talking about trickling should be known as "constipation economics," because everything gets all blocked up), is what has gotten us into this mess, and the errors and failures iare being multiplied every day.

As far as I can se, Big_D, he didn't identify this with any groups at all.

Around 1900, when the Asuza stret "revival" took place, which turn was then accelerated by the writings of Karl Barth, and by Tillich (forget his first name). These events started the great apostasy that Paul writes about, when he says "first comes the apostasy."

You know his funny? What can it mean?

Recorded history ain't all that long, Myer. NOW who has a poor grasp of science, hmmmm?

The amount that is fair cannot be determined from their percentage of income. Making $300 million would not mean that you should pay $150 million in taxes. THAT would be unfair! Anyone having to pay multiple millions in taxes is being treated unfairly.

There is no means to make companies pay taxes. Whatever they pay comes from revenues, and revenues come from customers. The customers pay the taxes. What '-ism?' It is "anti-cronyism." But cronyism is the antithesis of capitalism.

Do you think that, therefore, we can never make a law against taking another's life, since "life is nowhere defined?

"Life begins at?" sure. But "A life begins at" is well established. Of course, if you ban a sufficient number of arguments that will prove your case false, you can win the day. But this makes the case well: The only things nec. to move from adult to oldster, from teenager > adult, from child>teen, todler>child, baby>todler, fetus to baby, embryo to fetus, or from zygote to embryo is time, nutrition, shelter, hydration & gas exchange CO2 out, O2 in). Each of those is the name of a stage of development for some unifying "thing" that is doing the progression through those stages. That "thing" is a human being. And a human being is "a life."