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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What bothers me is the twisted logic that assholes like Dr. Richard Swier use to arrive at this conclusion:
They start with the assumption that we don't get to choose. Our votes do not belong to us--but to the candidate that they wanted to win.
Then they compound this folly by torturing the math until it appears to support their belief.
Does he really believe that the 16647 votes for Jill Stein and Roseanne Barr would have gone to Mitt Romney if they had not been on the ballot?
Does he seriously believe that every Libertarian would have voted for Mitt Romney if Gary Johnson had not run?
I think the GOP is tone deaf to the Libertarian message. They will pander to the black and hispanic vote. I think they heard that one.
I could care less what the party does, and in fact would prefer it to remain hostile to libertarians.
We have an impact on the outcome of elections.
Why do you think appealing "to the black and hispanic vote", ...pandering ???
My fear is that they will peel away enough to create one majority and two minority/rump parties which guarantees liberalism forever.