Ron Paul opposes linux - was Re: [OT] Isolationist vs. Non-Interventionist [was: Re: HB 139]

[Von Fugal]

* Michael L Torrie [Thu, 24 Jan 2008 at 13:46 -0700]
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> Von Fugal wrote:
> > * Michael L Torrie [Thu, 24 Jan 2008 at 13:28 -0700]
> >> It seems to me that part of our problem is we don't innovate on the
> >> scale that we used to.  For example, if we think about the transistor,
> >> piano, car, electricity etc.  All of these things are largely American
> >> innovations.  Yet right now we think of Asia for almost all of these
> >> things.  Yamaha pianos, cheap Chinese electronics, Korean cars.  We need
> >> to get our butts in gear and offer products that are innovative and
> >> something people in the world want or need.  Easy to say, hard to really
> >> do, though.
> > 
> > Especially if we're taxed to the bone and doing all we can just to pay
> > the bills. Liesure is a precursor to creativity (innovation).
> 
> How do you explain, then, that the US has one of the lowest tax regimes
> on the entire planet?  (At least out of countries that have a real
> government, law, order, and civil rights.)

Because of all the hidden taxes where the government prints money at our
expense.

Von Fugal
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