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@bmdrocks21
Both Canada and Greenland are wealthy low populated places. Immigration from them to the US would be very small.
I'd say we have very little to gain compared to them.
The USA gets huge amounts of natural resources. The other nations get to freely move to the most popular immigrant destination in the world, the USA.
Also, I don't want people I didn't elect from different countries dictating how I live my life.
How would they? I don't know about forced migration, but if Europe did that, it may have been to culturally unify the place. The NAU is already culturally unified, except for Quebec and Greenland, but voluntarily migration would be enough to assiliminated these regions. Their populations are small.
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@Dr.Franklin
With American settlement, since Greenland is rich in natural resources, it would benefit the NAU.
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@Death23
Greenland probably would get independence quicker and join the NAU.
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@TheRealNihilist
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/136MFNyPCnOs50_QltxPvkBpS2OydnNfG7WZYb21qTrM/edit#gid=0 states that a 24.3% sales tax would generate $6.718 Trillion. This would be enough to fund UHC, reduced college, and most currently existing government programs, plus our foreign debt can be paid off in 4 years. Currently, the US government spends about $3.3 trillion per year.
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@Snoopy
What is the good in having all of that money if they aren't going to spend it? I expect that savings aren't what you really have in mind.
They could save the money for retirement if they need it, or they could invest the money to get more of it. This applies to the poor/middle class. The rich earned their money and can use the money for more investment in companies that create jobs that give people wages.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Not everyone pays the income tax, so it's not the same. The rich don't pay income taxes due to loopholes and they have a lot of money. So even if the average American saves 10% of their money, 1% of sales tax raises the same amount of money as a 2% income tax for everyone.Do you understand why a 25% federal sales tax is essentially the same as a flat 25% income tax assuming everyone spends 100% of their income on items subject to said sales tax?
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@Snoopy
Why have you thought of sales tax favorably over corporate tax and income tax?
An income tax discourages income production. A corporate tax discourages making businesses.
A sales tax encourages you saving your money.
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@TheRealNihilist
Which is why a rich person can still tax avoid your sales tax.
They won't because it would be a small amount. It's not like they will bring a lawyer with them to a grocery store to avoid paying a sales tax. They currently don't do that.
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@dustryder
Do you discuss these ideas IRL and what reactions do people have to these ideas?
What does IRL mean?
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@TheRealNihilist
Just watch good left wingers. My advice is Destiny.
I prefer both sides.
Are you against all tax because the rich can find loopholes in all of them?
Not all taxes. For example, how can they find loopholes from a sales tax that's implemented nationally?
Which is why it should be improved instead of outright abolished right?
If you close one loophole, then the rich find another loophole and some non rich people can't use that loophole that was closed.
Same tax loopholes will exist.
How? Most rich people will pay the $125 tax for their IPAD and move on. They won't hire a $200 lawyer to get around $125 of taxes.
Are you an economist or mathematician?
I am very good at math. Top 3 in my PreCalc Honors class. I don't think the math I did on my sheet is hard. It's a bunch of multiplication and some addition. You can check it out if you want.
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@Dr.Franklin
USA, Canada, and Greenland. Under NAU, any citizen of any of these places may freely live in any of the others.
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@Dr.Franklin
Mexico currently wouldn't be in the Union.
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@mustardness
You have a lot of hate yourself, so accusing people of having hate when you have it yourself is hypocritical.
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@TheRealNihilist
What difficulties are you willing to share that you have in daily life?
It's very hard to focus on hard stuff. Also, when I'm on break mode, it's very hard for me to get stuff done.
To me both are propaganda channels.
As long as I watch both left and right wing stuff, it's better then a Pro-Con video because the biased videos will say things that you won't hear in an introduction video.
Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLfAuWe3xho
It's 3 hours. Seems like a long time.
Wouldn't abolishing the sales tax and income increase wealth inequality?
I want the income tax abolished and replaced with a sales tax. The left ought to support it because the rich have ways to avoid paying income tax. The really rich hire lawyers to find loopholes that allow them to pay nothing in income taxes. It works for Trump and the Amazon CEO. If the rich don't pay income tax, why should the poor? A sales tax I don't think would create any loopholes. This is why according to my calculations, a 1% rise in the sales tax raises about the same amount of revenue as about a 2% income tax rise on everyone.
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@DebateArt.com
The notifications button is always on even when I have no new messages. Can you fix it?
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@TheRealNihilist
Are you actually autistic?
Yes. Asperger syndrome.
Do you think you have confirmation bias?
Unsure. I imagine everyone has it to some extent but I have been watching some Secular talk in addition to Prager U.
Why aren't you a social democrat/neoliberal?
I am fine with some left policies, like reduced college and UHC/Medicare for all, but what prevents me from being a lefty is how I want them funded. I want them funded with a sales tax. Moreover, I want the income tax abolished on the federal level and replaced with a national sales tax.
What is your favorite game of all time?
Maybe chess. I like strategy games and don't like games based off of luck.
What is worse living a mundane 80 year life or living happily for 20 years of your life?
Mundane 80 year life. I value being alive.
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Should there be a Union of some North American countries, similar to the EU? The original countries would be US, Canada and Greenland once they get independence? There would be requirements for joining the NAU.
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@mustardness
This immature 'playing dumb' mind game.
Poor conduct, quote taken out of context, and I said that if a woman can't get out of a pregnancy, nether should a man.
So the fertilized egg { *(i)* } is in the woman and she has all inherent rights to happens to it via all of its stages/pahses ---fetus and fetus/baby--.
Not even the liberal platform believes in legalized abortion until birth. Not even Roe V Wade supports that idea. Why would a woman be allowed to kill a fetus at 26 weeks old? Why at 8 weeks old? Under my compromise, she can still get an abortion within the first 6 weeks. Most women find out they are pregnant before 6 weeks, so under my compromise, they can still get an abortion, just before 6 weeks.
The pregnant woman is oxygen INspiring woman { aka human being } if not and adult, the fertilized egg is not.The fetus is not.
Both are human beings.
The fetus is not an oxygen INspiring human being and the it it is an organsim of the woman.
What the hell does "oxygen inspiring" mean. They are pretty much as separate as a nursing baby is from their mom. If baby formula didn't exist, should the mom be allowed to kill the babies that she is nursing?
It is fine with me if you want to recited nonsense 100 times before breakfest, lunch, dinner and before bed. It is your inherent right to do so.Stop trying to push your nonsense on other INspiring humans.
It is not nonsense. It is scientific fact.
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@disgusted
Consenting adults only require the consent of each other to engage in sexual intercouirse. Why do you think you have the right to deny that?
Because sex is dangerous and it must be banned with the exception for reproduction. Even then, both partners must have no STDs or must get all their STDs treated so the kid isn't messed up. It causes unintended pregnancies and it spreads STDs. Condoms don't always work in the prevention of STD spreading. Unless something is done about STDs, then everyone in society would have them. Your fine with all abortions. I hope your not fine with STDs.
Every woman has the right to bodily autonomy, prove me wrong.
Their body is alright. But their body does not have 2 different blood types. A fetus has a different blood type then the mother most of the time and this is evidence for them being separate human beings.
There are no babies involved, grow up.
Science confirms that a 6 week fetus is a human being. Abortions before 6 weeks are fine. But after 6 weeks, it ought to be banned. I have made a compromise offer. Do you have any compromise offers?
You've never had sex have you?
I have never had sex and I am a proud virgin. I never want to ever have sex.
The corrorally being that all martians should have the right to their own planet. Why don't they, do you think?
If martians are sentient life forms, then they ought to have the right to their own planet. Granted, the Earthlings can buy the planet if they want in the event that there are already martins there. I prefer to colonize the moon. It's much closer.
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@Dr.Franklin
The LGBT community is gradually getting support according to Pew. They're fine. They just need to be patient.
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@Mharman
That's not what "f in the chat" means.
What does it mean then?
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@zedvictor4
What you describe isn't Communism. That is Tyrannical Autocracy.
The government owns everything. Freedom of speech is restricted. China became a shithole through communism, hence why they still call themselves communist, even if they do things like invest in the stock market.
Communism is an impossible utopia.
It's a possible distopia. It's like me saying, "True Theocracy has never been tried in countries that are wealthy". If the US goes communist, then the most influential democracy with free speech and freedom to keep what you earn becomes an ally to communism, a system that has killed 71 million people in China, about 3x that the Natzis killed. "Democratic Socialism" failed in Venezuela.
The U.S. should just stop meddling.
If we stop meddling, then South Korea becomes communist/dictatorship just like their northern neighbor because China and NK would have invaded the country. Japan might be next.
Especially in regions where they have little understanding and intolerance of cultural differences.
How is cultural differences relevant?
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Any questions DART users? Ramshutu gave me the idea. Might as well give it a try.
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@Mharman
Can we get an f in the chat for Alec
I don't want sex, not even when I'm married.
some people order pizza without cheese
That's bread and sauce. When I at pizza, it has dairy free cheese.
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@Dr.Franklin
AOC has called border patrol agents sick anti-american people
This is her opinion, although I don't agree with it. That's hating a program, similar to how the right hates planned parenthood.
Omar hasn't said ONE thing good about America
She probably hates America's history. Does she hate 21st century America? If so, please provide evidence. I'm just not sure.
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@Dr.Franklin
They HATE America
Prove it
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@Dr.Franklin
He doesn't HATE america, he criticized it but fixed it
The Squad (Cortez, Omar, etc) criticizes America too.
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@Dr.Franklin
Trump didn't like this country, hence Make America Great Again.Your kidding, right sick commies who HATE america, who ABSOLUTELY DETEST this country refuse to leave,
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@n8nrgmi
To prevent future racism, what are your thoughts on racially assiliminating non whites to make them white so they can enjoy the white privilege that they think exists.
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@bmdrocks21
What are your thoughts on birth control and artificial womb R&D?
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@bsh1
How long is disgusted banned for? Why is he banned?
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@dustryder
Despite guns being legal, almost every woman who gets raped didn't have a gun to protect themselves.
Encouraging females to get guns would reduce rape.
There is little to no evidence that guns have ever been effectively used to prevent instances of rape.
Chicago banned handguns in 1982, and their rape rate increased from the downward trend(http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/ilcrime.htm).
In about 6% of rapes, a firearm was used to facilitate the rape.
If rapists only have a gun for 6% of rapes, then a female with a gun will in 94% of rape instances can keep the rapist at bay.
The 2nd amendment does not protect women from rapists, and only helps rapists. All the data points to this conclusion
If guns are banned, then rapists who wish to use a gun will get one illegally and commit rape with them. If everyone followed the law, why don't we cut to the chase and ban all murders and rapes? Oh wait? Some people don't care about the law.
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You give up any bodily autonomy and one woman does the same.
Define bodily autonomy. If by bodily autonomy, you mean the right to have sex before marriage, then I'm fine with both men and women being prohibited from having sex until marriage.
Then you just have to convince enough men and the exact number of women to join you and hey presto you commit to dying from any illness and the women agree to let you and your fellow males take all the unwanted babies and bring them up.
Very few abortions are due to the mother's life being at genuine risk. We both know that even if I allowed abortions where the mother was going to die, it wouldn't be enough to satisfy you. Moreover, if you give the babies to the males to raise, they would set the kids up for adoption, just like what the males would be fine with the females doing.
Oh btw you've never even addressed the real question ie bodily autonomy, you only ever pretend a fetus has rights.
Define bodily autonomy. A fetus ought to have the right to their body.
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@mustardness
Let's be consistent about this. If a woman ought to have the right to kill a baby, should a rapist be allowed to rape a woman? Because abortion is worse then rape. If I said in response to a hypothetical rape legalization debate, "please keep your friggin immmoral nose out rapists bodily business." I would essentially be crazy. Just like you are since you fail to take into account the rights a fetus ought to have. You also drop every point I present to you and you instead go back to an argument that I just roasted.please keep your friggin immmoral nose out womens bodily business.
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@Stephen
You sure disgusted is the worst bully? Mustardness is close to being #1. Top 3 bullies on DART are disgusted, Brother D Thomas and mustardness.
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@zedvictor4
Castration is a bad idea. How would people reproduce?
Brothels can spread STDs and cause unintended pregnancies, which lead to abortions.
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@zedvictor4
Communism is an evil idea and system. The notion that you.can jail people for their political opinions is tyrannical. The 2nd protects the first.
If the US completes the job, then China might start a war. The USA should do something like buy North Korea from.Chinese influence. Making South Korea a state also can prevent the country from becoming Communist by making attacking South Korea attacking America.
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@mustardness
I view your type as being perverted and immoral.
You view anyone who disagrees with you on any political issue as being evil. This is fascist behavior.
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@blamonkey
@Ramshutu
@Discipulus_Didicit
@Club
ASTAP got significantly modified. Most of the taxes are gone. Just a sales tax remains. What do you guys think of it?
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@dustryder
If guns were illegal, most women, including college aged women would want illegal guns because they are physically weaker than men and would want to protect themselves from rape.
Right now, most women don't want guns and they are legal. If guns are illegal, almost every woman who gets raped would have no gun to protect themselves.
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@dustryder
If rapists can get guns illegally, why not women?
Most college aged women aren't interested in getting guns illegally. A rapist on the other hand, doesn't care. The women only might want them legally for protection since they have studying to do for classes. Concealed carry rights would make rapists afraid to rape.
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