The most disturbing factoid that I learned on Tax Day was that the average American must now spend a full twenty-four hours filling out tax forms. That's three work days. Or, think of it this way: if you had to put in two hours per night after dinner to finish your taxes, that's two weeks (with Sundays off). I saw a talking head economics professor on some Philly TV channel pontificating about how Americans procrastinate. He was laughing. The IRS guy they interviewed actually said, "Tick, tick, tick." You have to wonder if Governor Ruth Ann Minner and her cohorts put in twenty-four hours pondering whether or not to give Kraft Foods $708,000 of our State taxes while demanding that school districts return $8-10 million each?
“A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.” -- Charles Wheelan, "Naked Economics"
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A question about "evil" to a presidential candidate is just ridiculous. I don't know why we stand for it.
Because we're morons. :-(
Dumb question, good article. I wonder if I have made the No-Fly list because I've read it.
The American media seems to be under some illusion we are a theocracy. On Fox News, for instance, they had a so-called "expert" from the infamous IRD (Institute for Religion and Democracy) commenting on the forum. If you know ANYTHING about the IRD, you know they are trying to drag mainstream protestantism to the hard right due to their liberal social leanings. They have also interfered in Latin American politics, the first co-founder having worked with Ollie North.
Moreover, it was lost on the media that they should have been analyzing the perspective of Warren's "evil" question, not the answers. In the context--a fundamentalist evangelical church pastor--evil has an entirely different meaning than when used as in "axis of evil", for instance.
It was a sad, sad day for US politics.