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I'll be in Zion. Oh well.

You would know, wouldn't you

Your earlier question was about "feelings" and higher taxes. My comment was directed at KK's kneejerk "taxes are too high, Europe, blah blah" which is very illustrative of contemporary conservative groupthink. If you have some ludes, I'd love to take them off your hands. Make work much more pleasant

It's absence is very illustrative of your point however!

JayB- How nicely you ignore the cuts in other marginal rates and other tax reforms that reduce the burden on the lower and middle classes.

reductio ad absurdum I've met too many people who's only ability was to regurgitate the material they were taught in school to think that a degree on a cv means anything but the basics. Most people posess a deeper understanding yes, but all do not.

Why is that at all interesting or surprising, except to right wing ideologues, and why does it fucking matter? The rich get a majority of the benefits from our system (as evidenced by their being rich!) why shouldn't they pay proportionately more? Should the poor pay more to protect the property of the wealthy?

If you look at the history of Australia KK the single biggest factor seemed to be a high valuation of labor compared to Britain.

Historically Australia proves a good example of this. There was an interesting book a few years ago ( The Great Wave, here's a review which tied, among other things, increases in crime to a decrease in real wages and an increase in income inequality.

You read the book? It's a good bit more about climbing/life than business. Not a bad read either.

soon the transformation will be complete.

If you'd bother to look up the data yourself you'd see those sources aren't that different. If you'd bother to look up the data you'd see that "common sense" is once again wrong, as for a total of several decades America was heading to greater income equality (decreasing gini coefficent)

Fortased just doesn't work as well.

To an economist in the ivory tower it doesn't. But that is to plead ignorance to the raft of social changes occuring. The very real outcome is a decrease in social mobility, which has always been the hallmark of America and one of the reasons for its success.

JayB- You don't seriously believe that, do you?

Umm "Source: Analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data in Economic Policy Institute, The State of Working America 1994-95 (M.E. Sharpe: 1994) p. 37, and U.S. Census Bureau, Historical Income Tables, Table F-3." those are the same sources. Historically part of the reason behind seamingly punitive tax policies was income redistribution, to combat the capital gap.

Please KK, explain why social stagnation is a good thing.

In relative terms thats not true. vs.

"Common" sense is as mutable as anything else.

awww, how touchy feely new age american you two are. Religion gets to be what I want it to be...

Your logic is faulty.

In light of how many peoples trust was violated by priests (and the Church) perhaps that's not a good thing.

That business model isn't so applicable to the Outdoor industry where a very small budget goes to R & D, and a very large budget goes to marketing.

http://www.byzcathsem.org/seminary/degree.php#master http://benedictine.stvincent.edu/seminary/programs/Mdivprogram.html Note requirements heavy in theology and philosophy. I have a relative who was an ordained Lutheran minister