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    Our MP spends all his time in the rival seaside resort of Brighton on the other side of the country...

    Here is the run-down of Geoffrey Cox's voting record based on general issues.
    Run down based on per vote basis.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tiaexz View Post
    Our MP spends all his time in the rival seaside resort of Brighton on the other side of the country...

    Here is the run-down of Geoffrey Cox's voting record based on general issues.
    Run down based on per vote basis.
    Like I said - broadly happy

    Also - I note:

    "Voted very strongly for measures to reduce tax avoidance"
    "If it wears trousers generally I don't pay attention."

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    Obviously the solution is to go full Star Trek and invent the replicator.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
    Like I said - broadly happy

    Also - I note:

    "Voted very strongly for measures to reduce tax avoidance"
    Yes - complex new rules require more expensive and specialised tax consultants.
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    Yes - complex new rules require more expensive and specialised tax consultants.
    It doesn't matter - having pre-judged all politicians you'll only ever see the negative.

    If the entire House of Commons voted to Attain themselves you'd say they'd all taken bribes from the stationers who would write up the Bills.
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    Obviously the solution is to go full Star Trek and invent the replicator.
    Then we will fight wars over the molecular goo that gets put in them.

    A post scarcity world is maybe something that we might not like too much.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy View Post
    Then we will fight wars over the molecular goo that gets put in them.

    A post scarcity world is maybe something that we might not like too much.
    The Klingons will appear eventually and unite us.

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    The Klingons will appear eventually and unite us.
    My Chemistry teacher used to believe that the Klingon empire resided around Uranus.
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    America ruled by poor commoners.

    Idiocracy?
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    Fireman can be found at fires. Fire fireman to reduce fires!

    Lawyers, doctors, engineers and entrepreneurs all can be high income earners.

    Who generally gets elected? Lawyers and a smattering of doctors, engineers and entrepreneurs.

    Oh my lawd the politicians have a political point of view similar to the non polticians of a similar socio economic background! Call the press its a consipracy!
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    "The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman

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    An interesting page of statistics. The progression of inequality through life:

    http://www.demos.org/blog/3/25/14/am...oss-life-cycle
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    This guy explains it better than I.

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    Is that the kind of bullshit that passes for critical thought in Scandinavia? You know, I used to wonder how Horetore amassed so many high collegiate honors while still maintaing the intellectual capacity of a feral pig. I think I've figured it out, the bar really is just that low.

    We were talking about weasel words in the other thread. The ultimate weasel word is "education". Now I personally find a well rounded university education to have benefits that transcend wage labor and the capitalist system. However, that does not make people more "equal". I would say free education only helps in so far as Swedes don't have to take out crippling student loans.

    All of that (plus healthcare) can all be trace backed to the welfare state, a fine invention no doubt. Now I could go into to why the welfare countries of Northern Europe have fared particularly well. We could talk about a relatively low, homogeneous population but I feel as though that would eventually end up with you frothing at the mouth about Muslims and their inferior culture. of course, all the while you've been plowing your umpteenth adulterer and pursuing your completely libertine exsistance unaware of your own glaring hypocrisies.

    Education is not the equalizer. Jobs are the equalizer. A man without a job, is a man without a purpose. A man without a purpose falls prey to tyrants and fascists. Now maybe we in the death throes of wage labor in the capitalist system. Maybe there truly aren't enough jobs anymore. I don't quite know how to fix that as government subsidies only work so far as there is a tax base to draw it from. Someone smarter than me can answer that

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