Libertarians & socialists don’t tend to agree on the issue of tax but for differing reasons they’ll likely agree with how unfair the policy the IRS here in Britain has become when it comes collecting taxes.

Last week the chief of the IRS said that lower paid workers such as cleaners & labourers were cheating the taxman out of billions.

Thing is just last month there was a report stating that £25 billion a year was being lost due to tax avoidance by large corporations & that this was due to a far too cozy relationship between the IRS & various corporations.

The attitude of the IRS seems to be that if you’re a lower paid worker not pay your cheating your taxes but if you’re wealthy not paying tax then hey that’s okay.

On last nights show, there was a NH bill being discussed which would "allow" for businesses owners to refuse to serve people who marriages they disagreed with.  Gard said that the bill didn't specify which type of marriages.  I haven't read the bill.  All of the callers, and surprisingly to some extent Gard, seemed to oppose it.  The way I look at it is that any business should be able to choose who they deal with for whatever reason.  That being said, if the bill does what Gard said it would do, the result will be a carving out of a small chunk of liberty that is currently being overridden by the 1964 Civil Rights (read:  government granted "rights") Act.  There was some intimation that because the author of the bill was opposed to gay couples, that w

Gard,

I hope you didn't take my $7/month subscription and run to Brazil. (No extradition).  I emailed you but got no response.  Let us know if everything's alright.

(Joseph Ferrante, piano tuner of George Harrison)

(HOW CAN SUCH MASTERPIECE BE UNKNOWN?) (BIG PLOT)

This treatment of the song has been completely changed rhythmically and harmonically to obtain a very different song which hardly keeps any resemblance to the original one.
Only the lyrics and the singing melody remain untouched. The rest is another song altogether. The piece has been practically recomposed. In other words, another song was composed where the singing melody of the original song would perfectly fit.
An ethereal choir lays the carpet upon which the rest of the arrangements would rest.
A mixture of classical scales, indian music, greek music, latin bachata, mambo and flamenco brings the song into reality.

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Hello from your resident lurker.  I like these boards mostly to see and try to understand where you are coming from.  I have still to hear a convincing arguement that a libertarian society would work.  Generally, the ideas put forth would, IMHO, devolve into some horrible dystopian future in short order once it was exposed to human nature.  There are some other blogs I read a lot, mostly dealing with financial markets, (www.thereformedbroker.com, www.nakedcapitalism.com, www.epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/, and www.ritholtz.com/blog/).  Naked Capitalism put forth some articles written as a mock interview of a libertarian to illustrate just what a libertarian future would look like.  It is, admittedly, much like it works in my mind after reading sources lik

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/nov/25/jamie-oliver-school-meals-michael-gove

the more Oliver whines on about kids not eating enough greens the more kids are going to give the finger to anything Oliver says

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/25/max-mosley-google-france-ger...

I don't believe Mosley will be successful but if he it really could have serious implications to free speech on the internet

I'll probably take some heat from the holier than thou anarchists (I'm just a regular garden variety anarchist), but here it goes. 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/11/21/swearing-at-police-i...

F**k YEAH!

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Gardner, yes, I’m still listening. Several thoughts on the Osborne podcast: first, as a general observation, for anyone who’s interested, I believe I’ve come up with the succinct one liner for those who use the social contract/public goods argument, how everyone contributed to the wealth of the rich through state provided services. Check out the one note in my latest blog post: www.michaelmcconkey.com . Of course, I could just write it here, but I’d prefer you read the blog post.

The official rate of inflation has pasted the 5% mark; though the true rate of inflation is about treble that & then some. Its not as if inflation has past the 5% mark in the near past, in the late 80s the inflation rate was about 9% & of course a decade earlier it was around about 15%. Though in the past the rate of inflation might have been higher then it is now, in the past wage increases had generally kept pace with the rate of inflation & that’s currently not happening.

That's the question I pose: www.michaelmcconkey.com 

I need a Pink Floyd sound track.

Gardner, Gardner, Gardner: 

http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/justice-system-fails-dale-farm-...

This both a travesty of justice & liberty, i mean this shouldn't of had to of come to court, the people on that land should of been left alone!

I now hope this doesn't turn into the British version of Waco but maybe there needs to be a British Waco to wake people up.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/01/world/europe/netherlands-cannabis-tour...

So the European economy is down the crapper & what do they decide to do in Holland?

Ban non Dutch nationals from buying pot in coffee shops

Its not as people visit Holland for its landscape

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044229/Boris-Johnson-calls-convictions-swear-police.html

Nah you won't be able to say shit to the police & soon enough when they beat the crap out of you you'll have to thank them

http://smew.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1973:burger-king-toppled-replaced-with-burger-democratic-republic&Itemid=574

Humor!

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