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Originally Posted by Teppler
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Humans have existed for only a couple thousand years. /QUOTE]
It's incredible these troglodyte asshat contrarians can feel so smug and superior while sounding so goddamn stupid. They literally know nearly nothing about an incredibly studied topic and proceed to educate everyone else on it.
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Either he forgot to add "hundred" between 'couple' and 'thousand' or he is one of yours trying to discredit the opposition. No one believes humans are 2000 years old, as the Bible has humans appearing many generations before the birth of Jesus. Also, no one who believes in the Biblical account of Creation thinks the rest of the earth was created 100s of millions of years before humans as Teppler states, they believe everything was created within a similar time span.
[QUOTE=Wonkie;3072108]In 1944, the top rate peaked at 94 percent on taxable income over $200,000 ($2.5 million in today’s dollars3). That’s a high tax rate.
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The mid 20th century tax rate isn't comparable to the current tax rate as they had a massive amount of exemptions back then; you don't honestly think the rich would ever allow themselves to be taxed at 90%+?
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made up example: tax rate is 90%, but they can exempt 50% of their income from it, so the effective rate is 45%.
I remember reading something that although tax rates have varied wildly, the amount as a % of GDP has remained fairly constant since 1940 when the amount skyrocketed.
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Originally Posted by Tzug
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Takes quite a bit of arrogance to think you know more about climate change than NASA, the Pentagon and the energy companies themselves (who have known about climate change since at least the 80s--this is not speculation; there are internal documents that prove it).
I also enjoy the people saying "the earth has been going through warming and cooling periods before" as if none of the above-mentioned agencies have never thought of that. "We have the scientific and technical expertise to put a man on the moon but we didn't see that objection! Thank you, message-board climate denier!"
If your belief on an issue happens to be at odds with the vest majority of people, especially the people most informed on the topic, AND it happens to (conveniently) also be the same belief that asks you to do nothing, it may be time to scrutinize that belief.
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Moron. You are wrong. I've already provided links showing that most scientists do not believe that humans are the main agent of climate change. I've yet to see anything but arrogance and ignorance from your side.