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To: neolib who wrote (9113)	12/16/2010 6:09:00 PM
From: one_less	2 Recommendations of 10071

"What happens when people spend large sums of money to confuse voters?" We trust our elected leaders and our social spokespersons to give us the straight and honest scoop. But what happens when they are entangled with the payoff. Most political corruption is a function of social influence, group think pressure, and the frailty of human character. In modern times it is exercised more often by what a person in power allows under their watch, than by personal actions committed directly by politicians. So this or that unseemly circumstance is not caused directly by particular politicians but allowed to take place none the less. This has been learned over centuries of watching how organized crime bosses are able to avoid incrimination and has become so endemic in the system as to be nearly unavoidable for politicians even in the best of circumstances.

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To: neolib who wrote (9111)	12/16/2010 6:09:47 PM
From: Lane3	of 10071

Google Dogs, Monkeys Fairness. I'm aware of that work. I'm not sure what it can tell us that is useful. Since fairness is not an on/off switch, unless the research can pick one model of fairness over others as the "right" one, what good is it? And I don't see how monkey or cockroach fairness will tell us that. Certain ideological perspectives think "fairness" is a dirty word I suspect that "certain ideological perspectives" mostly react negatively to other "certain ideological perspectives" yapping about it all the time. <g> Seriously, one of the few certainties I have is that fairness is a figment, one that everyone perceives differently. They perceive it differently as both general principle and relative to their particular interests in particular cases. This is so at the micro level and the macro level sure doesn't make it any clearer chaotic. Never gonna solve that one. It is not useful to claim something is unfair when there are just different models of fairness in play.

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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (9107)	12/16/2010 6:59:26 PM
From: koan	of 10071

You ever consider joining the reality based community-lol. I laugh a lot. I am a happy guy-lol. I don't expect a curmudgeon, Scrooge, right winger to understand joy and laughter-lol. What I said was correct. So think about it. <<INDIVIDUALS pay no state income taxes. . . Yes, we tax corporations at the rate they should be taxed-lol." If you think individuals - particularly consumers and workers - do not bear the burden of corporate taxes, you are sadly mistaken. Corporations do not pay income taxes, even when they write the checks. Their customers, their employees, and their shareholders pay them. As for the rest, yeah yeah yeah. Everything bad in AK is because of some "right winger" and everything good is because of the good work of socialists and progressives (if that's not redundant) like you. Whatever. BTW, you should really reconsider your practice of ending every third or fourth sentence with "-lol". Someone might mistake you for a 13 year old girl.

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