Paul Ryan Poll

[giblets]

All you've provided to the discussion thus far is merely sound and fury signifying nothing. If you can't back your position with anything other than snide comments, knee jerk reactions, and smilies, be silent and let the adults speak.

Then why do you even post on this forum at all?

[DaShi]

Don't bother. DD will never acknowledge your responses. He's been called out on so much nonsense on these forums. He just ignores it and goes on to repeat the same crap later. He thinks posting one link and whinging when no one replies to it is winning an argument.

[Uncle Sparky]

If in this modern-internet age if we could select representives on a different basis other than where they happen to live. What about representatives based on age, geneder, social status, occupation, financial well-being (well this one seems to follow district lines)? I think if we were able to identify a better way to "district", one that doesn't recognize physical location other than maybe state, we could have a better cross-sectional representation of the public.

Proportional representation would achieve this. Multiple smaller, special interest parties would arrise and elect members. There could still be parties representing big business, but they wouldn't be the only two electing candidates.
This will never happen in the US, the Lobbies and Big Tent parties won't allow it.

[DinoDoc]

Then why do you even post on this forum at all?

Apologies for ruining the circle jerk with kentonio.

[kentonio]

Apologies for ruining the circle jerk with kentonio.

Listen ****, you're standing in support of states that insist on charging next to nothing in taxes, have terrible life expectency and education rates for their citizens and then turn down the chance of a huge helping hand for the people based on purely ideological grounds. I'll go further, the deaths of all the people who could have been saved by medicare expansion fall squarely in the lap of the Mississipi GOP leaders. They are ****ing murderers. This is why people like them (and you) are despicable people who cause me to become angry about this ****. It's not about some ****ing partisan debate, people are dying out there.

[Hauldren Collider]

at the idea of Mississippi being third world.

[Ben Kenobi]

charging next to nothing in taxes

Notice how Kentonio listed this first? Apparently it would be better if MS had low life expectency, poor education and high taxes like Philadelphia.

[dannubis]

Notice how Kentonio listed this first? Apparently it would be better if MS had low life expectency, poor education and high taxes like Philadelphia.

No dishonest ****face. That is NOT the case.

[Ben Kenobi]

So you're saying Philadelphia has it worse than MS?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Philadelphia, MS is the worst of all

[DinoDoc]

Philadelphia, MS is the worst of all

You could throw a dart at a map of the MS Delta and you would find a ****hole.

[DinoDoc]

Listen ****, you're standing in support of states that insist on charging next to nothing in taxes,

Is there a huge collection of rich people in MS I'm unaware of?

have terrible ... education rates for their citizens

I blame the public school system for torpedoing the effort in the Legislature to reform our school system.

based on purely ideological grounds.

You've yet to provide any evidence of this assertion.

It's not about some ****ing partisan debate,

Stop treating it like one.

[kentonio]

Is there a huge collection of rich people in MS I'm unaware of?

Why does it require a huge collection of rich people? You can raise taxes on everyone if you are directly improving their lives in a way that is going to save them huge amounts of money in the long term and improve their overall life chances. Paying an extra few % of income and getting healthcare in return is not an unreasonable deal.

I blame the public school system for torpedoing the effort in the Legislature to reform our school system.

Of course you do, it's much easier to blame schools/government etc rather than actually try and help shape them better.

You've yet to provide any evidence of this assertion.

Don't be obtuse, the vast majority of GOP congressmen and senators signed the Norquist 'No Tax' pledge, and that attitude of 'no new taxes ever' is endemic in the GOP. A California GOP guy who got kicked out just yesterday for voting for a modest tax reform. They vote 'no taxes' regardless of whether that tax raise is going to hurt or help anyway, just on the principle that 'Taxes are bad, m'kay!'. It doesn't get much more ideological than that.

[The Mad Monk]

Kicked out by his constituents, you mean.

[Ben Kenobi]

You can raise taxes on everyone

So Kentonio is a flat tax proponent? Interesting.