It’s not even close. Take the war in Afghanistan for example. More people die of heart disease there in two years than have been killed in war in fifteen years and that just heart disease. Terrorism is minuscule compared to war, let alone other causes.

Marbles? Doesn’t it only fit about three?

If you did you might make some fairly easy money.

It’s not that it’s a long title. It’s that the title is cut off like it was automatically pasted in. In addition a little googling usually finds the same content on a site which shall not be named. That place allows much longer tittles.

Ok. I’ve never flagged a post. How do you do it?

Not a bad idea. Let’s flag any screwed up titles and see if they slow down.

The Great Wall didn’t have to deal with airplanes and according to a Brad Pitt movie I saw once the whole point of the Israel wall is to deal with the impending zombie apocalypse.

This is completely true. And people with no kids have a portion of their income go to schools, non-smokers tax money goes to treat COPD in active smokers via medicare, tax money from people who don’t watch football go into infrastructure improvements for stadiums.
That’s how our society works. You have to pay the taxes as your admission price. The elected officials decide where it is spent. You don’t like it you can vote against them, you can even run for office if you’re really worried about it.

Busy working on Dr Who I would think.

Yeah. I’m not the one missing the jokes here.

Dynamic equalibrium. The illusion of progress through constant action. If the strategy you describe worked then law enforcement would have eliminated crime years ago.

Do you guys actually read what I write? I never said anything was a problem.
I have stated the following things:
1. @coldpasta doesn’t understand how wealthy people became wealthy or how they actually act once they are.
2. There is a $5mil (now $11mil) tax exemption for inheritance and I don’t see anything wrong with people paying taxes above that.
3. If the spirit of the post is that “you should work for what you have” then why are people defending those who inherit their money and don’t work for it? Shouldn’t they shoulder a proportionally equal burden toward society as the rest of us?
At no point did I say the system wasn’t working, merely correcting things that were stated incorrectly and asking a question.

Sherlock

We should start tagging the posters in the comments and see if we get any responses.

The period is over my head?

Exterminate the Enemy? That’s a wonderful attitude that has worked so well throughout history. And who is the Enemy? They don’t seem to wear uniforms, in fact they seem to look exactly like innocent local citizens. So how do you target the Enemy?
We have an area that has been tribal for thousands of years and we show up, draw arbitrary borders and then kill them when they don’t want to follow our rules. You have been convinced that this conflict started in 2003 and hasn’t been going for a century. They tell you that because they can’t have you understanding that it never ends until we leave.

You keep interpreting what I’m saying as something to do with taxing inheritance and I’m not sure why. All I said is that families don’t control the same business generation after generation.
So, since it’s what you want to talk about.. In my state inheritance below $5mil is not taxed. I can’t really feel sorry for someone who is getting that much and has to pay basic income taxes on it like we do on the money we work for.

You’ll need to go back a few decades.

Again you demonstrate a warped idea of business. Business owners sell out to larger entities or go public when they are ready to exit. Exits are an essential strategy and are considered as early as the formation of the business.
Once the exit is taken then the capital is diversified into investments. That’s how long term multi-generation estates come to be. Do you really think Sam Walton’s kids own Wal-Mart? Do you think Zuckerberg owns Facebook?

No I didn’t say anything of the sort. What I’m saying is that your idea that rich kids can shut down what their forefathers built is dumb and shows that you don’t actually understand how any of it works.
Also if the idea is that you only deserve what you work for then shouldn’t we have no problem with people giving up what they didn’t work for?

But they would be less likely to be our enemies. No amount of military action in the region will ever make them like us so all we can do is continue a failing and costly effort to keep the lid on. We leave and let them go back to the way they lived before we interfered we may have a chance at mutual respect of each other’s way of life.
Take Iraq as an example. Do you know where Iraq came from? I think if you look it up you will see why they aren’t very happy with white people. The fact is we started this, not them.