Yeah, we don't have ANY of that going on here...

NO BUT IT MUST ACTUALLY BE BAD IN NZ BECAUSE UM SOMETHING ABOUT TAXATION AND FREEDOMS AND SHIT, I GOT NOTHING

No, but we can't spend money on social programs! Someone somewhere might get a benefit they didn't earn! Think of the horror! It's WAY better to have millions of people living in poverty/the ability to blow stuff up wherever and whenever we want. Clearly such a better system despite the fact that citizens Scandinavian…

B...b...but I read Atlas Shrugged once and if we help people and pay a living wage then the looters and parasites will take over and make the US a People's State! We can't abandon our great Prophetess Ayn Rand!

The scary thing is watching how the rights secured by unions are being stripped away as fast as unions are declining. I guess I'm a "knowledge worker" and I get treated very well by my employer, but it's scary and depressing how often I overhear clerks at retail establishments talk to each other about how they've…

Well, if there's one thing I know for sure, it's that we definitely shouldn't attempt to improve any problem that can't be solved by one single immediate perfect fix that everyone can agree on.

They HATE it when you "silence" them.

Double points if they come in brandishing some college freshman level microeconomics

ughhhh i could have been mean to him first >:/

American plutocrat apologists

Then, at very least, strong unions whose corruption is oriented around pleasing their fat, lazy workers are a good bit of healthy competition versus corporate corruption, aren't they? If we can't count on everyone being an angel, I'd rather know that at least all the devils aren't working for the other team.

Think of all the dignity they're cruelly being denied by not having the opportunity to bootstrap their way up from wages determined by the emotionless invisible hand of the market.

Cue the heavy use of my banhammer. I'm not playing any of that Ayn Rand shit.

To say nothing of long-term *sustainability*. The universe may be near-infinite, but a company's growth potential is not. I don't fucking understand why a whole bunch of people with, I assume, business or finance degrees can't see a stable, profitable, mid-sized company and go "yeah, good work there - you've got a…

So $5.37 USD?

If no one is starving in the street, how can I ever feel truly rich?

I never said can't. I said "don't have a whole lot of leeway." And those states don't. Nor states that have had them in the past. They can do so, and should do so, but they should be ready to mea culpa repeatedly when their own laws are pointed out. Forgive, but do not forget.

Proms are disgusting by nature! My school didn't have one but every prom story I hear from my friends goes like "My date was a 46-year-old drug dealer named Snuffleupagus and I drank so much and did so much blow that I ended up vomiting on a chaperone's lap. It was a magical night." The conclusion to be drawn from…

It was repealed. However, it's still embarrassing to have it on your record (and still have politicians who voted for it in office) when you try to condemn another country for doing the same wrong.

plus, i'm sure when aids was new, no one was going LOL LETS HAVE A PARTY.