tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post2781592986566290621..comments2023-06-21T10:26:47.525-05:00Comments on ("RAM").........Red Alert Moderates: Of Merit and PurposeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-19576422682604954402011-08-09T08:04:37.437-05:002011-08-09T08:04:37.437-05:00Re: "I completely fail to understand how tax...Re: "I completely fail to understand how taxing a corporation, which may in fact be merely an individual, is anything other than an attempt to micromanage.<br /><br /><br />I agree. It's only when corporations move resources out of America that they should be taxed. I worry less about crony capitalism within America than I worry about international crony capitalism, that abuses entire peoples and governments.<br /><br /><br /><br />Re: "As to secular particles and spiritual math"<br /><br /><br /><br />At bottom, the people who want to wall away the political expression of (spiritual) concerns (such as concerns about freedom and dignity) about immeasurable qualities of life are the people who think the only ideas worth discussing are those that can be quantified, for which they depend on the notion that everything is ultimately explicable in terms of inanimate particles rather than in terms of mind. These are the blinders that keep the "establishment of religion" folk engaging in the same tedious debates with the "free exercise" folk. I am suggesting that any worthwhile resolution must accept that it is beyond government or science to force a perfect reconciliation of the quantitative with the qualitative. Simply put, it is not just wrongheaded to ban spiritual concerns from the public square --- it is impossible. We need to stop bouncing off those walls and think beyond the box.<br /><br /><br />Beyond the box: We need to stop bouncing between being governed by crony capitalists versus micromanaging bureaucrats. To get crony capitalism under decent control, we need to think outside the box we are bouncing around in. We need to fundamentally redefine what is allowed to be done in the corporate form, because that is the agency that is being used to reduce America to the lowest common denominator. We are submitting to a new aristocracy of internationial corporatists, who are using international law and the UN as camouflage. Until we do redefine the business corporation, we are just alternating to beat our heads against opposing walls.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com