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Here's a good foundation for political discussion:

The Worlds Smallest Political Quiz

Take this "quiz" and post your results (if you care to) and we'll see how we all compare. I'll wait for at least a few folks to post theirs before I post mine.

Erik
 
Re: Political Views Quiz

"Erik" wrote in message:

> Here's a good foundation for political discussion:

> http://www.lp.org/quiz/

> Take this "quiz" and post your results (if you
> care to) and we'll see how we all compare.
> I'll wait for at least a few folks to post theirs
> before I post mine.

According to that I'm a Centrist (whatever that
means!).

The definition below isn't very helpful! :-(

Centrists favor selective government
intervention and emphasize practical
solutions to current problems. They tend to
keep an open mind on new issues. Many centrists
feel that government serves as a check on
excessive liberty.

Cheers.
 
Libertarians are self-governors in both personal and economic matters. They believe government's only purpose is to protect people from coercion and violence. They value individual responsibility, and tolerate economic and social diversity.
 
I'm really a nice person, really

I'm really a nice person, really

I took the poll and here are my results:
my political philosophy is authoritarian.
my Personal Self-Government Score is 20%.
my Economic Self-Government Score is 40%.
Wow, they said my beleifs are fascist! Before I took the quiz I thought of myself as being a total liberal!
 
"vic user" wrote:

> I am an anarchist, with a good helping
> of socialism, yet they don't have that
> in the quiz.

You don't mean one of those other things
do you?! ;-)

Cheers,
CP/M User.
 
Re: Political Views Quiz

Erik said:
Here's a good foundation for political discussion:

The Worlds Smallest Political Quiz

Take this "quiz" and post your results (if you care to) and we'll see how we all compare. I'll wait for at least a few folks to post theirs before I post mine.

Erik
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Well the Quiz is quite simplistic. For example the question on free trade
doesn't relate to what the US views as free trade, while most of the 3rd-world call for "fair trade".

What I find interesting is that only 16% support the Bush Republican
position. Also that most of the responders tend to be somewhat left.
Ususally computer people tend to be viewed as right-wingers but the
preponderance of libertarian/anarchist views reflecting the solitary
activity of IT people is revealing.
I view my position as somewhere left of Chairman Mao but the quiz
placed me as "liberal-left" to my chagrin. I still miss the postings of
Ward Griffifs on classic/cmp, an unadulterated libertarian.

My ratings for most libertarians would place them to the right of the
scale, and I have read Benjamin Tucker as well as most anarchists such as Bachunin and Prokotkin. While I agree with many libertarian principals
they tend to ignore the rapacious nature of capitalist society and like the
SF writer Robert Heinlein or Ayn Rand glorify the goodness of the strong
man struggling against the restraints of the uncomprehending community.
So the SOBs like Rockefeller. Hearst, and Carnegy come off as good guys.
Hitler had many of the same ideas. Nonsense ? Look up the support given
by Ford and many other major money-men to this "strong-man".

I don't much like the present progress of society,and the "social compact"
has temporarily been shelved to be ressurected another day when the powerful feel threatened, but a regression to earlier even more authoritative brutal times has no appeal to me or my hopes for my kids.

lawrence
 
I took the quiz and it said that I was a libertarian! I always figured that I was an anrchistic type. Don't anarchists believe that people should govern themselves? But then again so do libertarians? HMMM! Maybe theself declared libertarians aren't telling us something. Very interesting.

Nathan
 
I always have considered myself a "pragmatist" Friends of mine refer to me as the "Law and order liberal" but according to this quiz I'm a libratarian
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 90%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 60%.

We recently had a bond issue come up for a vote here in town. The bond was to go for basic services- police, fire, and roads (if you've ever been to Oklahoma you'd know that its just like a third-world country except thier roads are better) and some of my co-workers were agast to discover I had voted against it. My rational is simple- Tulsa already has the highest sales tax in the state (just over 8%) show me the local powers can spend the money wisely and I'll vote to give them more. They've yet to do this in the past few years.
Unfortunatly my fellow citizens of the 3rd Reich..er...Tulsa, didn't have my clarity of vision and the damn thing passed.
 
Does sales tax equal value added tax? 25%, and I believe there are other countries in Europe with an even higher rate. Ok, so we don't count. :wink:
 
I think I'm gonna have to hide from the in-laws.
I ended up with:

You fall exactly on the border

of two political philosophies...
.

LIBERAL

LIBERTARIAN

I guess being a freak just comes naturally. :)

I wonder what Bush the Younger( or the Dumber, take your pick ) would get ?

carlsson:Does sales tax equal value added tax? 25%, and I believe there are other countries in Europe with an even higher rate. Ok, so we don't count.
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I know how you feel, I used to live in Austria and Germany. High VAT, high energy costs, high everything, but good,cheap beer. I admit, sometimes I'm torn between here and there.

patscc
 
Ooooh..a cuspie!
Dubya ain't necessarilly as dumb as his spin-doctors want us to believe he is. He's just smart enough to know when to play dumb. He learned that lesson early on in his political career, when he played-up his intelectual prowess, only to be beaten out of the Texas gubernatorial race by an opponent who portrayed himself as just another "good-ol-boy". American voters want a "man of the people", which is the image dubya now tries to project, and are intimidated by candidates who are percieved as being "too smart".
And no, VAT ain't necessarily the same as sales tax, as proven by the fact that in some localities, they charge both.

--T
 
Answers.com said:
VAT differs from a conventional sales tax in that VAT is levied on every business as a fraction of the price of each taxable sale they make, but they are in turn reimbursed VAT on their purchases, so the VAT is applied to the value added to the goods at each stage of production. Since sales taxes are applied to the total price at each stage of production, they tend to compound, growing into very high tax rates on products with numerous stages of production done by different economic units. This discourages specialization and, instead, encourages integrated production units even when integration (e.g., from raw materials to final product) is less efficient.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/value-added-tax

One can also read that the concept of VAT was invented by a French in the 1950s to counter the existing sales taxes leading to smuggling. There is an example between VAT and sales tax, but I'm not sure if it is correct to have a system where you charge both.. maybe for different markets?

According to the table, Denmark has the highest VAT as there are no reduced levels. Sweden is considering to drop the reduced tax rates too and go for one rate, probably 22% which will have greatest effect on more expensive books, movies, other forms of culture, travelling, hotel stays and to some extent food. Services, electronic stuff, cars, clothes and all other kinds of items may be slightly cheaper instead.
 
Umh, about sales tax, I think the answers.com answer is simplistic, over here, sales tax is state-based, and they've all got vastly different rules, some don't even have sales tax. The propagation of sales tax is extremely complicated as well( well, to me, but I'm just a geek, not an accountant) and differs from state-to-state.
I suspect the VAT propagation rules are also different, per country, in Europe.(although, maybe that's recently changed)

I actually got really confused for a second, but then remembered where I grew up, and sales tax essentially worked like VAT.
The fact that the French invented VAT is already suspect, I mean, after all, they invented Abysynth.

Either way, VAT or sales tax, I think they both suck, to me, it boils down to this:

I get taxed on my income.
And then I get taxed on what I spend it on.
Should I choose not to spend it, and invest it, I get taxed on the proceeds.
If I decide to stuff it into my sock, and keep it for a rainy day, assuming inflation doesn't eat it all up, I will then get investigated by FEMA for carrying around a wad of cash, because this is clearly something only terrorists do.
boo.
I also, unfortunately, work in DC, so I see first-hand how tax dollars get spent.
patscc
 
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