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If it's true, its a stretch to connect one to the other.  Parties, alcohol, drugs-these were all there before video games.  Look at the early 80s. 

Video games dont cause people to kill people-there is always an underlying problem there...maybe the video game helped bring it out.  But then again, maybe getting thrown into a garbage can, getting beaten, etc. did it.  Millions of people of all ages play video games.  How many of them become druggie murderers because of it?

It is very moral.  It is immoral to tax people more for being successful. 

You also seem to forget the idea that lowering taxes stimulates growth, which often leads to more revenue in the end.  So, it is practical.

Nothing you've offered seems to refute this.  A person paying 10% is the same as someone 10%.  This is perfectly fair and moral.

Hmm, yes, a community life would be very important.  Maybe a town gathering center, or complex.  But I still think extended families (grandparents, parents, etc.) should live together, and the children remain. 

The extended family provides enough of a range of experiences and perspectives to care for children.  This is how early settlements in America were formed, and how the Native Americans lived before that.  Many still live this way.  I think the extended family module would be a good idea for Mars.

No, no.  That's ridiculous.  Should we tax only the rich? 

Or how would you fund the government?

It's a perfectly fair system.  Youre taxing them in a percentage, so they pay less because they make less.  It's very hard to make below $15,000 in this country, unless you are unemployed.

It costs the same percentage to a rich person to buy a car as it takes the poor person, to buy, say a refrigerator.  A poor person could buy 10 more refrigerators, the same way a rich person could buy ten more cars.

They can buy the ten more cars because they did well for themselves.  And tell me, what is wrong with that?  Should Michael Dell have to suffer because he made more money than John Doe? 

Fine, how about this, below a $15,000 income, there is no income tax.  The rest gets a flat 15% tax.

I really dont think that anyone has any right to limit reproduction, or manage your children. 

If a child grows into debt, yes, the family should repay it.  I would hope that the family also made the child repay them with interest over time.

And if you want an argument against community raising children, look at america's foster homes.  Good intentions, but in some cases, horrific result of abuse, neglect, and so on.

The parents who spawn the children are most like their children, not some psychologist who analyzes the child.

Its true.  Nova should go to the surface and shake his fist at the asteroids.

So somebody else can get credit for your work?

What is it that clark said?  Common ground?

I guess all people have some issues that come into agrrement 

Being a child, I strongly say I would rather have limited rights than be a part of a collective.  I don't want to be taken care of by somebody who has nothing to do with my existence--my family reared me, and they deserve the chance to raise me.

Anybody read The Giver?  That book influenced my view on communism a great deal.  It might not be pure communism, but i hated the way that everybody was subject to the will of everyone else.  Children should be free to choose, and their parents should guide them.

I still stick with my school/apprenticeship theory 

Good game, lol.

I think we could do it with orion technology.  More would be made possible by fusion though.  I can't draw, otherwise I would draw out my idea.

Wouldn't the CO2 outgas other gases?

clark, that made no sense.  1,000/9,000 is the same proportion as 10,000/90,000. 

This penalizes everybody equally.  A person who makes ten times as much pays ten times as much.  Should a wealthy person pay 91,000 dollars, so he can live on the same amount?  Should the wealthy not be allowed to enjoy the fruits of their labors?  I would agree that tax policies that benefit the rich too much are wrong, but a flat tax is fair across the board.