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An IQ Test for Criminals and Liberals

uvuvuv Wrote: Nov 10, 2012 3:53 PM

in the 1800s england was struggling with smuggling. parliament had set a high tariff on tobacco imports and so to get around this people were buying their tobacco in the black market. the only answer was to raise the tariff yet again to restore the lost revenues. what happened was that the clerk misplaced the decimal point in writing up the bill for publication and the tax was cut by 90%. overnight the smugglers were out of business and revenues doubled.

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An IQ Test for Criminals and Liberals

A lot of people say Obama is anti-business, but there’s one part of the American economy that is delighted that he got reelected.

No, I’m not talking about bankruptcy lawyers or corrupt lobbyists, though those would be good guesses.

The real winners from Obama’s re-election are America’s gun manufacturers and gun sellers.

Not that I’ve looked at any data. I’m just basing this on the comments I’ve heard over the past few years and the up-tick in such comments in the past 36 hours.

But I’m quite confident that the overall firearms industry has profited from Obama’s tenure.

Anyway,...

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