You’re listing a total tax rate? The more accurate comparison you want is this.

Actually, I disagree, war is NEVER necessary. Sometimes war is thrust upon us. One of the reasons why I am against both the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is that they were not NECESSARY. The war in Afghanistan may have been justifiable (probably was), but it was not NECESSARY. The war in Iraq, as we have learned wasn’t…

Yeah and the Iraq war wasn’t necessary. But it lead to this, good call patriotism muppet.

The devastation in Syria (see above) is the government bombing its own people due to a civil war. You’re thinking of Iraq, and Afghanistan, and so far there is no proof that any of the people fleeing to other countries are religious extremists. I’m assuming you’re the “cling to yer guns cuz the guberment will take…

I’m just going to leave this here and let you think if my France example is better than what goes on in the US.

Why does food need to go across the country? Why can’t excess food from Texas stay in Texas, and excess food from Colorado stay in Colorado? You’re making this way more complicated than it needs to be just so you can say it won’t work.

Some of us here in the RainyDay office left Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution and have a better feel for what the Syrian refugees are going through. No one WANTS to leave their home if they don’t have to.

Yeah but much like France, the vast majority of the US population lives in big urban centers. So we don’t have to cover the entirety of the county, just focus on the big cities and it will still do good for millions of ppl.

We’ve long established that you don’t just have some kind of absolute free reign to deal with your property as you wish. You can’t just burn your house down nor can you dump cans of paint down the drain, etc. There’s no constitutional issue with the government regulating commercial activity with regard to the disposal…

Morality. It’s what is lacking here.

The statement was more about his cavalier remark regarding “carpet bombing”...

Naw, they keep us too poor to make emigrating a realistic option.

and no CEO will get a million dollar bonus for doing it.

Not to mention that it can’t be militarized or publicly traded.

That would be the sensible, right, humanitarian thing to do...

Morons to refugees: “GO BACK HOME!”