OK, let's try it this way. Who is the US government's biggest creditor, by far?

That still only accounts for 90%.

I dunno, looks pretty 'incriminating' to me:

So, is it?

Really? So after she had him, she now decides that it would have been a mistake not to have him? And in the meantime, the rest of the nation is saddled with this controversy that has bubbled along for what? Over 45 years? Ain't that just like a woman?

Oooh! Saturn rings! I want the light green one near the middle! How much? Just tell me how much, I'll get it somehow!

The most recent forecast from the Office of Management and Budget for October 1, 2018, through September 30, 2019 puts income tax receipts at $1.688 trillion. According to your link:

Nearly 25 percent of all income taxes go to pay for defense.

25% of $1.688 trillion amounts to $422 billion. The 2019 Defense budget calls for $950 billion, a shortfall of $528 billion.

About 22.5 percent of income tax revenue goes toward health care programs.

22.5% of $1.68 trillion is $378 billion. The 2019 healthcare budget calls for $1.23 trillion, a shortfall of $852 billion.

About 8 percent of income tax revenue goes toward paying annual interest on the Federal debt. Due to the current ultra low Federal Reserve interest rate, interest on Federal government debt only amounts to $360 billion. 8% of 1.68 trillion is $134 billion, a shortfall of $226 billion.

Just those three items amount to a shortfall of over $1.6 trillion, and social security hasn't raised its ugly head yet. So where's all the 'money' coming from?

One thing always interested me as a sort of thought experiment. I wonder if the woman at the center of the 'Roe v. Wade' case sends her son a birthday card. And if she does, how does he feel about it?

Because he lives in a tent in his uncle's yard.

Damn you're good!
I bow to your greater knowledge, oh wizened one!
Actually, I really am impressed. It's usually me doing this kind of research and the one on the other end flipping me off for the effort. Consider my hat tipped...

Ha! Yeah! I just finished the article. He really reamed her a new one.

Mmm-hmm. That had absolutely nothing to do with some highly trained, elite, professional soldiers spending literally years looking for him, or the military leadership that kept up the pursuit even when it was obvious that he was probably already dead. No, none of that. The Anointed One did it, all on his own. Right... Stolen valor.

No doubt you'd be the first to scream blue murder if some poor snowflake got his widdle hand smacked by one though wouldn't you? Are you familiar with the word hypocrite? Look in the mirror.

If I was into 'conspiracy theories', I might consider the possibility that she was foisted on the Democrats by the Republicans just for the fun of watching them try to control her in their own unique way. She's a Godsend to them for sure, and 2020 will be a breeze for Republicans with her shooting her mouth off and embarrassing their more seriously challenged candidates. I like her for that!

Sorry, but that dog won't hunt. You may be correct in certain parts of the world, but not here in the Good Old USA. Government claims control of vast tracts of land, this is true, but that land does not 'belong' to government, because government has no right or title to anything tangible. Same for patents. Actually, there's a nice little challenge, find a patent owned by and awarded to government. Any government, anywhere.


Sorry, but government collects neither rents, royalties nor grazing fees. Government collects taxes, that government sets arbitrarily, and the people are forced to pay at the point of a gun, if necessary. In reality, there are literally hundreds of taxes paid by all of us, every day. We just don't see it. Would you like an incomplete list? It's incomplete because it's impossible to find them all in the millions of pages of laws and statutes preserved in the Congressional archives.


How so? Are you saying that you didn't earn that money that was taken from you by force? Rents and mortgages are agreed to by mutual assent. They're contracts signed by both parties that have rights and obligations attached to them. Taxes are a one-way flow of assets from the productive to the non-productive among us.


I'm very certain that all of the money you pony up to the IRS goes to pay the interest on the national debt to the Federal Reserve System. That's right, your 'hard earned tax payment' goes to support and encourage a system that not only charges you for the privilege of holding money, but systematically undermines the value of that money through currency inflation.

Did you ever stop to wonder why it is that a dollar today will buy the same things as three cents would buy in 1912? It ain't 'natural', let's put it that way.

Why thank you, that's the best thing anybody's said about me in a long time. At least ten minutes!