Europe vs US taxes
[QUOTE=InformedConsent;43024701]Exactly. European countries tax[B] regressively[/B], meaning that a greater tax burden is borne by lower- and middle-income earners than is borne by higher income earners, which is [B]the exact opposite[/B] of how the US Government taxes us. And don't forget they have a 20-25% VAT tax that EVERYONE pays. THAT'S how they pay for all those goodies.

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/09/19/other-countries-dont-have-a-47/[/url]...

[QUOTE=kidkaos2;38341016]The point here is that San Francisco is one of the most liberal cities in the nation. Conservatives have been saying for years that despite their rhetoric, when it come to their own lives leftists will abandon the principles they publicly espouse. Pointing out that a conservative city does the same thing is irrelevant because Omaha doesn't make a point of being a shining liberal beacon the way San Francisco does. Omaha doesn't ban the sale of Happy Meals. Omaha doesn't...

[QUOTE=mysticaltyger;38353268]Classic mistake of trading liberty for security so that you'll eventually have neither. Since the erosion of liberty is a gradual process over a period of time; and also because of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias"][B]normalcy bias[/B][/URL], people don't notice what they've lost until it's too late to avert disaster.

We already live in a fake democracy/police state, yet most people haven't noticed, or they would be much...