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To: tejek who wrote (604932)	3/23/2011 8:01:57 PM
From: TopCat	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1575611

So you want to increase corporate taxes......except where you don't want to increase corporate taxes. You're very conflicted, Moonbeam.

To: tejek who wrote (604932)	3/24/2011 7:26:36 AM
From: jlallen	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575611

Ooops!! The incompetent ninny in the WH blows it AGAIN!! Who's in charge? Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:32 AM on 23rd March 2011 * Comments (0) * Add to My Stories * Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated * French propose a new political 'committee' to oversee operations * Germany pulls equipment out of NATO coalition over disagreement over campaign's direction * Italians accuse French of backing NATO in exchange for oil contracts * No-fly zone called into question after first wave of strikes 'neutralises' Libyan military machine * U.K. ministers say war could last '30 years' * Italy to 'take back control' of bases used by allies unless NATO leadership put in charge of the mission * Russians tell U.S. to stop bombing in order to protect civilians - calls bombing a 'crusade' Deep divisions between allied forces currently bombing Libya worsened today as the German military announced it was pulling forces out of NATO over continued disagreement on who will lead the campaign. A German military spokesman said it was recalling two frigates and AWACS surveillance plane crews from the Mediterranean, after fears they would be drawn into the conflict if NATO takes over control from the U.S. The infighting comes as a heated meeting of NATO ambassadors yesterday failed to resolve whether the 28-nation alliance should run the operation to enforce a U.N.-mandated no-fly zone, diplomats said. Yesterday a war of words erupted between the U.S. and Britain after the U.K. government claimed Muammar Gaddafi is a legitimate target for assassination. U.K. government officials said killing the Libyan leader would be legal if it prevented civilian deaths as laid out in a U.N. resolution. But U.S. defence secretary Robert Gates hit back at the suggestion, saying it would be 'unwise' to target the Libyan leader adding cryptically that the bombing campaign should stick to the 'U.N. mandate'. Read more: dailymail.co.uk

To: tejek who wrote (604932)	3/25/2011 1:05:33 AM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575611

Subsidies for movie making are corporate welfare. Why are you such a fan of them. If you create a success by subsidizing it, your pulling resources from the rest of the economy, forum other possible successes, and often causing more harm, if in less visible ways, than the benefit you get from the subsidies success story. See bastiat.org And even for the "seen" benefits, ignoring the "unseen" costs and losses, you have a zero sum game on these movie industry subsidies, or at least a near zero sum game, they mainly cause movie production to happen in a new location, one state gets a healthier movie industry not only by harming its taxpayers, but by harming another state's movie industry.