which tend to involve specialist equipment which is generally prohibitively expensive

some local communities by consequences of their demographics wouldn't be able to pay for stuff like that

definitely rezoning/gerrymandering/whatever could make it easier, but that problem will probably still exist somewhere

i'm not trying to poke holes in any beliefs, just trying to understand your notion of how a society with smaller government would operate

The only case I see somewhat viable for an income tax *may* be for military, border sec, etc. Even that is iffy.

Taxing individual income is silly.

SCHOOLS ARE A DISASTER

Most local problems could be resolved locally.

EXPENSIVE AND USELESS, PLUS PROPAGANDA

I AGREE: LOCAL RESOLUTIONS ARE BETTER

IF LOCAL COMMUNITIES CANNOT COOPERATE, THEN PERHAPS IT IS NATURAL SELECTION

@profagonist I WOULD HAVE A SOCIETY WITH NO GOVERNMENT

ARISTOCRACY FOR LEADERSHIP

CULTURE FOR DAY TO DAY

EVERYTHING ELSE LOCAL, LIKE POLICE

PEOPLE WOULD HAVE TO REACH VOLUNTARY STANDARDS

@MRB AGREED ON INCOME TAX. I FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT PROPERTY TAX.

hey fair enough but i don't think most people want to be a part of natural selection anymore and thus would take some convincing or coercing

IN THEORY, CORPORATE TAX ONLY

OR SOMETHING LIKE A VAT

Apparently income tax was 47% of total tax revenue in 2015

I.E. TAX HIGHER AT CONSUMER END

@profagonist SOUNDS RIGHT

So if the budget was balanced and then shrunk to 40% you'd be on track

@diversity_is_racism Property tax is rent paid to the gov for something we supposedly own. I see it as remnants of a feudal system paid to a manor lord.

@profagonist COINCIDENTALLY, ENTITLEMENTS ARE ABOUT 60% OF THE BUDGET

@MRB I AM PRO-FEUDALISM, BUT IT IS A CASTE SYSTEM, SO HARD TO COMPARE TO PRESENT

@diversity_is_racism That's fair.

IT MAKES SENSE TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT WHO A PERSON IS

AND PUT THEM IN A PLACE WHERE THEY CAN SHINE

INSTEAD OF MAKING THEM FEEL BAD FOR NOT HAVING ENOUGH

MESSAGE OF CASTE SYSTEM: YOU HAVE CERTAIN ABILITIES, DO WELL WITH THEM, AND ALL IS GOOD

IT PRODUCES FEWER HOURS AT WORK

AND MORE HOSPITABLE WORK ENVIRONMENTS

I WAS TALKING TO A DOCTOR

WHO SAID:

60% OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS HOSPITAL DO NOT NEED TO BE HERE

MANY OF THE OTHERS COULD BE ELSEWHERE WITH SOME LIFESTYLE CHANGES

AND SOME ARE JUST DOOMED, MAYBE 10% OR SO

WE HAVE MADE A PONZI INDUSTRY OUT OF EVERY INDUSTRY

The economy is like that to some extent. Growth is set by new consumers.

@diversity_is_racism they need actual nurses and doctors

but can't afford to pay them

so they're all overworked to shit

my friend's dad in upper class nj made less at his private practice than his wife did as some generic office lady

so he quit and became a nightshift er emergency surgeon

@MRB I AGREE IT IS BASED ON GROWTH, WHICH IS UNSTABLE

@Death Strike's Bat TOO MANY REGULATIONS

SHOULD GO TO CASH-BASED

preventative medicine

ALSO

DON'T BE FAT

MEDICAL SCHOOL IS TOO EXPENSIVE

DON'T DRINK A FIFTH A DAY

AVOID MENTHOLS

NO METH

medical school is too expnsive for doctors to pay it back now

YES

IT IS STUPID

as OBONGO

WE HAVE TRASHED THE PROFESSIONS

fucked the medical field

THE MORE WE TRY TO MAKE THINGS EQUAL

THE MORE WE RUIN THEM

it's like dumb ass bar bands

wanting to get to play with SATAN

or something

or Incantation

@Death Strike's Bat Med school costs should implode sooner or later.

Then again I'm still waiting on women's studies majors to implode too. Lol

http://www.deathmetal.org/news/burzums-top-ten-metal-influences/

dan 'plus-size lingerie' maarat

so what's the story on that flynnt type

@Death Strike's Bat THAT WAS A HUGE PROBLEM BACK IN THE DAY

SOME HUGE DEATH METAL BAND WOULD COME INTO TOWN

THE LOCAL FAVORITES WOULD BE LIKE, WE ARE BIGGER THAN THESE GUYS...

EVEN IF THEY WERE WEIRD HARD ROCK OR SOMETHING

RESULT: TOTAL CLASH

so drunken ass sex and cocaine abuse?

only in florida, yes

ABSOLUTELY

DRUNKEN ASSEX AND COCAINE ABUSE

SOUNDS LIKE USA 2017

Drunken asssex 👌
Cocaine 👌
Cocaine abuse 👎

Oh you mean gay shit

Sounds like Valentines Day.

I don't have time to pick anything up after work for VD to get vd

I'm drawing a pic of tulips and writing a poem involving the name Willis. Somehow tulips on my Willis will fit in there somewhere.

steel string guitar is an ill-conceived instrument

the most "imperfect" of all string instruments

wacky Willis always womped on his wife Phyllis. She put pills down but they couldn't hide her frown so she went downtown to get some pound. A black man from a bar took her home in his car and dropped her home the next day. Willis was home and he sure was pissed but that didn't compare to when he learned they caught syphallis.

@༺པརབྱར།བསངཇ༻ Oh my. lol

Sorry I'm guessing you probably erased your progress

plucked instrumetns 101 - longer scale, thinner strings

modern guitars are meant to be finger-picked only

archtop guitar - some structural issues adressed, but at the cost of resonance

dependent upon steel strings - poor choice

I'm telling this all because I was given a Saz to play by a friend and I was like - WOOOAHH - this feels good and smooth

No irritant noise, no tension

Immortal - A sign for "locals only" to ride

Gathering our boards near the pier side
Awaiting the tides to rise
Boards babes and brahs to see
In the barrels of these swells

In the shore near Verizon
A booth of shaved ice
I ate silently
With a surfers delight

Dropping in feels so tight
Getting pitted by waves breaking before us

But shubees in the distance are all that I can see
Born in the dry land of the burbs

A stake rises towards the sky
A sign that says locals only can ride
A sign for locals only to ride
For shubees to die

the weather is about to get real nasty in papa prozak's neck of the woods

how do people live in texas

lol

if you're not dodging tornados, you're boarding up your house from hurricanes or floods. if you're not worried about the weather, you're surrounded by mexicans

Pretty accurate. I'm in the surrounded by Mexicans part.

condolences

perhaps in time they'll find themselves on the other side of the wall

i was at the social security office yesterday and it renewed my hate for them

our former governor here made it so that illegals could get drivers licenses

years ago the DMV used to be packed to the gills with lines out the doors with mexicans

them feels i know

it was annoying here. i can imagine down there

There are two types here: those that know their place and those that don't. One of those annoy the buhjesus out of me.

Unfortunately both drive.

If you're careful around F150's with shiny rims you're OK though.

If you could only deport one ethnicity would you rather it be blacks or Mexicans

IRISH

Buy tandy

RIP RADIO SHACK

I MISS THEM ACTUALLY

AND THEIR GOOFY COMPUTERS

TEXAS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A TARGET FOR MEXICO

Are they completely gone

BUT

THE BACKLASH HAS BEGUN

I SEE FEW MEXICANS THESE DAYS

RADIO SHACK? NOT EVERYWHERE, BUT MOST LOCATIONS

WHICH SUCKS BECAUSE THEY WERE SUPER-USEFUL FOR CERTAIN PARTS

THEY CHASED AN ILLUSION HOWEVER

THEY WANTED TO BECOME BEST BUY

AND DIED ON THAT BATTLEFIELD

American settlement of the west is a failure anyway. They stupidly brought over agricultural techniques that only work back east.

They chased a dying industry right off a cliff too.

INTERESTING

TEXANS INVENTED THEIR OWN AGRICULTURE

BASED ON ABUNDANCE OF LIGHT

BUT NOT OF WATER

@MRB WHICH INDUSTRY?

what do you have against the irish

WONDERFUL ILLUSTRATION

@diversity_is_racism DIY/component based parts for electronics. The industry moved to a more pre-made products. They tried, but had inferior built goods.

THE IRISH... A LOW-IQ, PART SEMITIC POPULATION THAT DONE NOTHING BUT DRINK, BLOAT THE DOLE AND WAGE WAR ON THE ENGLISH?

WHO COULD LOVE THEM

JAMES JOYCE WAS COOL THOUGH

@MRB INTERESTING. NO RASPBERRY PI FOR THEM.

I IMAGINE THERE IS A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF PARTS THAT PEOPLE NEED

AND IF TANDY HAD THE VISION

WELL, THEY DO NOT

HAHA

Exactly

b..but tiocfaidh ar... la...

Yeah most other states though just abuse aquifers to grow Luxury crops typically while rationing water to food production.

THE TRICK TO TEXAS

IS GETTING WATER OUT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS

TO EVERYWHERE ELSE

AND ALSO OF COURSE

TO NOT GROW IN THE REALLY ARID REGIONS

@vry_o I OVERSTATE IT. THERE ARE SOME GREAT IRISH FOLKS. BUT GENERALLY THEY SHOULD BE ENSLAVED.

I ALSO FIRMLY OPPOSE MAINSTREAMING TRACE ADMIXTURE

@MRB I REMEMBER GOING THERE IN THE LATE 1990s: EXPENSIVE STEREO COMPONENTS, AND NOT-REALLY-STANDARD PC CLONES AT HIGH COST

I WAS THINKING, THESE GUYS HAVE OVERPLAYED THEIR "WE'RE A BIG CORPORATION SO YOU MUST USE US" HAND

radioshack still has the drawers with pots, fuses, and switches.. other odds and ends. but they stink on ice now

PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS NEED THOSE PARTS

THEY WILL ALSO NEED OTHER STUFF

RADIO SHACK WERE FOOLS TO MISS THE OBVIOUS MARKET

can South East Texas support the inputs needed across the state?

PEOPLE WHO NEED CABLES, CARDS, ETC. LATE AT NIGHT

IT HAPPENS MORE OFTEN THAN ONE WOULD THINK

they nuked it all and went to cellphone merchants here, and closed about half of them

@༺པརབྱར།བསངཇ༻ IT IS HARD TO TELL WITHOUT DATA

MY GUESS IS "YES" OR "MOSTLY"

THE SOUTH PART OF TEXAS ALWAYS FLOODS

THE WEST IS ALWAYS DRY

DIG A GIANT DITCH

AND TEXAS

IS GETTING READY TO FLOOD ONCE AGAIN

Thanks brah

👌

i got a big kick out of the californians in oroville

BRAH NEED MORE WATER FOR WEED CROPS

Dude

BRAHHH NOT COOL TOO MUCH WATER

I went there last year

lol

My brother in law lives there. It's a sad place

though there was a pretty good diner in town

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-oroville-flooding/

$100 million in damage

Yeah

from water pouring over a wall

The idiot didn't evacuate

We told him to get his family the fuck out

He's fine, but still

the main dam won't fail

how does california manage to fail in every regard?

the people, the politics, the infrastructure

the spillway eroded a good bit, but it still won't fail

same as plenty of other places. You experience torrents of wealth, build up more capital than can actually be maintained then scramble to hold everything together as areas of neglect, usually infrastructure, crumble.

they built a flurry of flood control infrastructure (army corps engineers) after the 1936 floods in SW PA. they're just getting around to updating them after they were all easily topped in 2004 when hurricane remnants dumped 5" of water in 24 hours

the lakes were stocked with fish and eventually left to the PA fish and game commission

quite a few had to be drawn down due to potential failures

third world USA tier shit

There's like one factor keeping us from being a third world country at this point

But I think we got most of the other marks

fat assed white women

the new phenomenon, like white women with ass

every year water service pipes burst, sewers collapse. everyone is like hey man lets legalize pot

ALL THE MONEY

no listen

I too am horrified seeing featured white woman. Struggling to get it up is heroic and civilized

ALL THE MONEY FROM POT TAXES

Pot taxes are a joke.

yeah pot rev is going to fix everything lololol

brah

pot taxes

like

no

listen

I swear to god if I see another hydroponics store open

hahahaha yeah dude

"dude you know what this town needs? not a hardware store, not a credit union, not like a stupid bakery where people talk about their lives and get to know each other"

"we need another vape shop"

#StonerLogic lol

"Vape Underground"

they must have opened at least 50 of them

i call the real estate they open up in "fad shops"

dopecraft - all for paught

since they remain a tenant for 3-5 years, and when the fad dries up they close down

even restaurants are like this

oh no problem dump $300k into an establishment on loan, make shitty overpriced food, just barely break even for three years, close up and liquidate the equipment. rinse, repeat

Hey at least they aren't brewing IPAs

Wait

~gonna hit up my loan officer and see about that microbrewing facility~

@vry_o I know one being scuttled right now. My free beer hook up is closing. 💩

And what you're saying is exactly why. They are leveraged to shit.

that market is flooded with a product that floats right above mediocre

so people think they're getting this astounding product

that's like right on par with yuengling

yuengling

fukkin east coast

I'm going to keep making fun of you people's obsession with that beer

shiner bock is a good equivilent for south canada

Never had it, too busy drowning in an an abundance of micro brew

hahahaha

brah come on over the wife and i just got a new mini growler fridge

we're going to watch stranger things on netflix

then share each others wives with dontae, our black friend

this dude i make bread for

who was younger than me mind you