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Old 11-16-2011, 10:53 AM
spdrun spdrun is offline
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Originally Posted by MS Fowler View Post
We are broke. How would you pay for this idea?
Raise taxes to appropriate levels, revoke all of the retard-chimp-era tax cuts immediately, and arrest everyone who voted for them for treason. (Yes, I'm willing to pay more to have a country with decent infrastructure and social services.)

Cut the murder/defense budget to half of its current size. Put a surtax on all liquid fossil fuels where the revenue goes into a trust fund to pay for alternative energy (incl nuclear) power plants, electric vehicle/hydrogen infrastructure, and both passenger and freight rail electrification.

Oh, and charge appropriate fares. If we're comparing to the Chunnel, the Chunnel is (now) largely self-sustaining.

The US is broke because the f***ing retards running the asylum want it to be broke, not because it needs to be broke.

Last edited by spdrun; 11-16-2011 at 11:06 AM.
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