History of the Estate Tax

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by ebacon

I'm just curious as to the board members' abilities to see both sides of an issue and at least agree that there are pros and cons. Which side they want is of course subject to differ and can only be resolved civilly by vote.
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So you are testing the members here?

I'll be reviewing your posts to gauge your abilities to be a valued poster here.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by noonereal

So you are testing the members here?

I'll be reviewing your posts to gauge your abilities to be a valued poster here.

Be nice! He's been posting up some doosie's regarding the Tea Party...heh, heh!

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Be nice! He's been posting up some doosie's regarding the Tea Party...heh, heh!

Maybe I switched to tea?

Ok, OK, I can't stomach the stuff.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by noonereal

Maybe I switched to tea?

Ok, OK, I can't stomach the stuff.

It would balance out Rex turning to the dark side of liberalish independency.

The bong is in the mail...

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by ebacon

Do what you need to do.

I'm not testing. It's just that after years of doing this stuff I have learned a few things about discussing politics. One of them is that it is more fun if people talk from their heart and top of their head.

For me at least it is lame as hell reading posters that just battle each other with cites to opposing viewpoints. The problem with that is that it lets the major parties script the dialog and reduces the debaters to useful idiots that further the parties' agendas. The good stuff in the middle gets driven over as the discussion crashes back and forth between the left and right guardrails.

I have also learned that its no fun to debate with people that can't at least see both sides of an issue. That's like wrestling with the proverbial pig that likes the mud.

If you want to see if I am worthy it might be best to debate me instead of reading my few old posts in a vacuum and judging me. I could judge you too but what good would that do? And even if we disagree it's no big deal. It's not like our two votes out of hundreds of millions are going to change anything overnight. We are just pawns in a bigger game being played over a much longer time horizon.

Isn't.



Pete

[ebacon]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Isn't.



Pete

[Rex E.]

Originally Posted by bobabode

It would balance out Rex turning to the dark side of liberalish independency.

The bong is in the mail...

It shoulda been here by now

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Rex E.

It shoulda been here by now

I sent it to noone, general delivery.... hehehe. w/ the Bongwerks label on the outside.

[Rex E.]

Originally Posted by bobabode

I sent it to noone, general delivery.... hehehe. w/ the Bongwerks label on the outside.

And here I thought you were trying to buy my vote

[ebacon]

Originally Posted by noonereal

So you are testing the members here?

I'll be reviewing your posts to gauge your abilities to be a valued poster here.

Do what you need to do.

I'm not testing. It's just that after years of doing this stuff I have learned a few things about discussing politics. One of them is that it is more fun if people talk from their heart and top of their head.

For me at least it is lame as hell reading posters that just battle each other with cites to opposing viewpoints. The problem with that is that it lets the major parties script the dialog and reduces the debaters to useful idiots that further the parties' agendas. The good stuff in the middle gets driven over as the discussion crashes back and forth between the left and right guardrails.

I have also learned that its no fun to debate with people that can't at least see both sides of an issue. That's like wrestling with the proverbial pig that likes the mud.

If you want to see if I am worthy it might be best to debate me instead of reading my few old posts in a vacuum and judging me. I could judge you too but what good would that do? And even if we disagree it's no big deal. It's not like our two votes out of hundreds of millions are going to change anything overnight. We are just pawns in a bigger game being played over a much longer time horizon.