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Celeste

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Re: Worlds Smallest Political Quiz
« Reply #30 on: February 25, 2004, 05:51:00 pm »
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
 Other than the question about minimum wage, what other items in the quiz are about protecting us from big bad corporations? [/QB]
indirectly, the business and farm subsidy question, the free trade question, the tax question, the foreign aid question...hell, in a country based on capitalism, ALL the economic questions can touch the relationship between the people, the government and corporations, actually

Celeste

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Re: Worlds Smallest Political Quiz
« Reply #31 on: February 25, 2004, 05:52:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
  I'm comfortable with the goverment regulating industry, which doesn't mean controlling it.
 
    I'll trust someone whose job it is to regulate something over someone whose job it is to make as much money as possible on most days of the week.
Regulating for the sake of regulation is dangerous.

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Re: Worlds Smallest Political Quiz
« Reply #32 on: February 25, 2004, 05:55:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Harriet Balls:
   
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
 Other than the question about minimum wage, what other items in the quiz are about protecting us from big bad corporations? [/b]
indirectly, the business and farm subsidy question, the free trade question, the tax question, the foreign aid question...hell, in a country based on capitalism, ALL the economic questions can touch the relationship between the people, the government and corporations, actually [/QB]
Tariffs help corporations.  Subsidies help corporations.  The tax question was a wash, as corporations would likely have to pay more since they use the government more.
 
 How does privatizing foreign aid help corporations?

Celeste

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Re: Worlds Smallest Political Quiz
« Reply #33 on: February 25, 2004, 06:02:00 pm »
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Tariffs help corporations.  Subsidies help corporations.  The tax question was a wash, as corporations would likely have to pay more since they use the government more.
 
 How does privatizing foreign aid help corporations?
Do tariffs really ALWAYS help corporations? Wouldn't it depend on the tariff?
 
 Subsidies help corporations, sure, so what if someone chose "YES", they'd then be making a choice against "corporate welfare" (I guess the Libertarians threw the Farm thing in there to muck the issue up, since subsidizing farms and subsidizing business has different implications)
 
 One could say that privatizing foreign aid would help businesses because they could do more business in the countries that they are aiding, however, the government gives contracts to private companies in these efforts, anyway.
 
 Hmmm, I'm not really sure what someone would have chosen in this quiz to land in the "authoritarian" netherworld of the lower region of the grid, actually.

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Re: Worlds Smallest Political Quiz
« Reply #34 on: February 25, 2004, 06:25:00 pm »
A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What are Politics?"
 
 Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way:
 
 1. I'm the head of the family, so call me the President.
 2. Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government.
 3. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the People.
 4. The nanny, we'll consider her the Working Class.
 5. And your baby brother, we'll call him the Future.
 
 Now think about that and see if it makes sense."
 
 So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what dad has said.
 
 Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check
 on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper.
 
 So the little boy goes to his parent's room and finds his mother sound
 asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding
 the door locked, he looks in the peephole and finds his father in bed with
 the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.
 
 The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, I think I
 understand the concept of politics now.
 
 "The father says, "Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think
 politics is all about."
 
 The little boy replies, "The President is screwing the Working Class,
 while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the
 Future is in deep shit."

ggw

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Re: Worlds Smallest Political Quiz
« Reply #35 on: February 25, 2004, 06:31:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Harriet Balls:
 Do tariffs really ALWAYS help corporations? Wouldn't it depend on the tariff?
 
 Subsidies help corporations, sure, so what if someone chose "YES", they'd then be making a choice against "corporate welfare" (I guess the Libertarians threw the Farm thing in there to muck the issue up, since subsidizing farms and subsidizing business has different implications)
 
 One could say that privatizing foreign aid would help businesses because they could do more business in the countries that they are aiding, however, the government gives contracts to private companies in these efforts, anyway.
 
 Hmmm, I'm not really sure what someone would have chosen in this quiz to land in the "authoritarian" netherworld of the lower region of the grid, actually.
Tariffs protect corporations from having to compete with foreign competition.
 
 The vast majority of farm subsidies go to corporate farms.

Celeste

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Re: Worlds Smallest Political Quiz
« Reply #36 on: February 25, 2004, 06:39:00 pm »
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Tariffs protect corporations from having to compete with foreign competition.
 
 The vast majority of farm subsidies go to corporate farms.
Isn't the line between "foreign" and "domestic" corporations often blurry?
 
 I didn't realize the subsidies were to corporate farms...I guess I had this vision of an old-fashioned farm...that's a good point. Yuck! I don't like corporate farms!

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Re: Worlds Smallest Political Quiz
« Reply #37 on: February 25, 2004, 06:42:00 pm »
<img src="http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz/s090_020.gif" alt=" - " />
 
 Your Personal Self-Government Score is 90%.
 Your Economic Self-Government Score is 20%.
 
 I'm sure no one's surprised....

godsshoeshine

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Re: Worlds Smallest Political Quiz
« Reply #38 on: February 25, 2004, 06:52:00 pm »
libertarian
 Your Personal Self-Government Score is 100%.
 Your Economic Self-Government Score is 60%.
 right on the border, economically moderate, socially liberal. sounds about right
o/\o

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Re: Worlds Smallest Political Quiz
« Reply #39 on: February 25, 2004, 07:10:00 pm »
<img src="http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz/s090_060.gif" alt=" - " />
 
 Your Personal Self-Government Score is 90%.
 Your Economic Self-Government Score is 60%.

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Re: Worlds Smallest Political Quiz
« Reply #40 on: February 25, 2004, 07:33:00 pm »
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Originally posted by SPARX:
 The little boy replies, "The President is screwing the Working Class,
 while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the
 Future is in deep shit."
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