shes pretty agile for her size.

What you gonna do about it? Thats right, nothing.

Never thought I'd be upvoting a Hanson video. That was quite good though.

You guys act like someone walked up bleeding all over the street and he said "nah, can't treat ya" The people walking up most likely have a cough...sheesh...talk about sensationalism. Theres thousands of doctors in the yellow pages...

Why not just tax human life directly? The world is overpopulated by at least 10x as it is. How about a $10,000 tax per kid per year. Sounds good, that should pay those million dollar political salaries pretty nicely.

BOOYAH. Cheat the system. 100% of all government programs are exploitable. I'll be using this one too once I quit the job and let the Gov pay me back all those tax dollars it took from me...

Non-violent protest against a political ideology...hmmm where does that sound familiar...Martin Luther King Jr., Ghandi? Didn't they receive Nobel Peaces Prizes? And this guy gets a * Terrible and on the "Worst Person List?"

The liberal mind is seriously warped...

Fucking pigs. They make the world less safe.

Exactly correct; and the government is the largest (and most wasteful) of them all.

>> ^SveNitoR:

Waste and inefficiency is not a government problem. It's a problem with -all- large organizations.

@NetRunner

1. Clearly you haven't ever seen any Robin Hood movies...you know...the guy who "steals from the rich and gives to the poor." This is the Robin Hood tax we are talking about after all...

2. You don't think poor people have checking accounts? Car loans? Mortgages? Rent from people with mortgages? Buy goods from small businesses who have business loans? Use credit cards? Maybe .01% sounds like a small increase in APR, but for a lot of people its enough to make a monthly payment just out of reach.

All this tax would do is give yet another person access to the cookie jar. Right now, its just banks, but this tax would expand it to bureaucrats -- you know, the guys who make $100,000 a year in pensions after they retire -- the guys who contribute and produce nothing in society. This "Robin Hood" idea rests on the very naive assumption that if a bank adds a -$100,000,000,000 line to their operating expenses they would just say "oh well" I guess we are all taking pay cuts from now on, and the poor would rejoice with their newfound money. You must be kidding if you think thats what happens in the real world.

The rich will NOT be paying for this tax, not one cent - the poor will because all they are going to do is pass along the expenses; and by getting the oh-so efficient-and-just government involved you can be assured that they will take their cut too. In reality, the banks will raise rates by $100,000,000,000 while the bureaucrats spend money on themselves and their cronies.

Society is like a pyramid...built on the backs of the working class who comprise the base. Nobody at the top cares about the poor - nobody - because the poor must exist for them to be rich. You think this tax gives money to the poor, all this does is give more money to the rich. Get real, who do you think you are talking to? You think I'm the CEO of Citibank or something? Why would I want to make more money for anyone at the top? Why would I want to take money from anyone at the bottom?

I'm all for the intentions of this measure - save the poor etc. but this implementation, formulated with emotion, hate, and ignorance, will ensure that those intentions are never achieved. We don't live in a fantasy world and Robin Hood doesn't save the poor with his merry men. The rich are rich because they are shrewd and calculating, and if you think something like this could possibly have any bearing on the rich you are daydreaming.

Disheartening? Maybe, but you can't change anything if you can't see it for what it really is.

Patented, litigated, sterile food. I'd put it in the top 20 ways we are irreversibly destroying this planet.

I'm not sure whats worse, not giving a shit about the planet, or not giving a shit about the planet and pretending you care for 1 hour per year?

Good dog!

Emotional
The banks are rich, and we're poor!

Hateful
Lets steal $100 billion of their money so we'll be richer and they'll be poorer!

Ignorant
Banks raise rates by $100 billion. Yet another group begins to siphon money from the poor (the government); the banks continue to make billions, the government makes billions, and the poor have higher banking rates...

This discussion to me draws the line between half full and half empty. Can you find something positive in an overwhelming negative subject, or can you only see the negative?