Putin for President

[Tewaz]

You don't have a votesky to give bro, he always had it.

[iruinedyourday]

Originally Posted by heartbrand [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I pay close to 60% in my income to some sort of tax, be it MD (hugely liberal) state tax, baltimore city tax, property tax, federal income tax, property tax, different licensing fees that are just taxs disguised as fees. What do I get in return for this? Some roads that were paved a couple of decades ago? A police force that doesn't do shit to stop rampant theft where I live? A bunch of subsidies for people who willingly choose not to work? Cool story. Fuck taxes, fuck liberals. That is all.

Who did you vote for?

[Nuggie]

in before rnf.

this same old debate...

[heartbrand]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Your money is paying for the US military to play world police all over the world, including Europe and Japan, which have enough money for their own militaries but don't bother because they can just use ours.

If you lived in a country like Canada, Australia, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, etc, etc, you'd be paying a similar amount of taxes but you would actually be getting something out of it. Healthcare, government-funded post-secondary education, infrastructure.

Ask yourself, which side of the aisle serves the military-industrial complex? Both of them, really. But "sissy liberals" are a little less gung-ho about interventionism and defense spending, aren't they? Obama tried to enact $1 trillion in defense spending cuts, but republican congress capped them at $496 billion.

This is a tiny fraction of overall government spending, but the right-wing spin machine would have you believe it's all the government does. Most of that money is going to old people, or is being stolen by health-insurance companies / healthcare providers. Next time you get in your pickup truck to go club some welfare queens, I suggest you drive to your nearest retirement community.



"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do" -Daywolf

Except I'm a libertarian who doesn't believe in the vast majority of foreign entanglements we are involved in so literally your entire essay is incorrectly addressing me.

[Daywolf]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do" -Daywolf

Actually my vote goes for volcanoes by far. by far by far. Odd that isn't much of an issue. Anyway you skip my whole point, I say Putin looks so good because 0bama looks so bad. That's so obvious. And 0bama tried to play the Reagan comparison game like every president has done since Reagan. But you gotta go back to Reagan's dealings with the USSR, how the Russian leaders were completely fuming how they would give so much away in negotiation while Reagan gave virtually nothing. Reagan was the cool operator, and a genius in international affairs. Not a great actor, fur sure haha, but the man was one of the top influential people of the 20th century where it comes to world leaders. Weather you agreed with him or not, that is undeniable.

[Sidelle]

Gonna keep treating this like a mock Putin thread. Some of y'all being too serious.

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[radditsu]

http://www.dw.de/food-imports-ban-ba...omy/a-17888880

Good job you dumb communist fuckstick. Putin is a box of rocks

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

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[Patriam1066]

Ill never understand the right wing respect for Putin. Using a country and it's citizens as a personal bank account is just about the worst thing you can do....

http://www.the-american-interest.com...m-or-progress/