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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from lydiawowift]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I am a 28 years old doctor, mature and beautiful.and now I am seeking a good man who can give me real love , so i got a username Andromeda2002 on--s'e'ek'c'ou'ga'r.c Ã³m--.it is the first and best club for y'ounger women and old'er men, or older women and y'ounger men,to int'eract with each other. Maybe you wanna ch'eck 'it out or tell your friends!
By the way, I didn't swear in my earlier post about distinguishing intelligence/stupidity from knowledge or lack thereof, but it reads better with the blog nanny software acting like I did, so overall I'm happy with the result]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from shadowist]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Um, Mr. Scott Adams
There already is a stupidity tax
It is called the lottery
It has such a negative expected value that only an idiot would play it]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from fdgffggfgfg]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from MikeP]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We already have a stupidity tax. It's called the lottery. It's a tax on people who are bad at math.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from scottsh115]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I think the same thing applies to physical fitness. You can take and pass the Presidential Physical Fitness test or pay a tax. Being fit reduces the strain on our healthcare system.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Fractal Knight]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stupidity is how some of  the worst politicians get elected.  
Why would they shoot themselves in the foot?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from lydiawowift]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As for women's lib, it's one of those ideas which sounds wonderful and fair but brings total ruin. The 20th century, at least in the US and Europe, has been the century of socialism and of nanny-statism, both largely because women were given the vote. I wish we could take it back.
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from MaxwellSmart]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;Tax policy has two purposes. One goal is to collect money to operate the government.&quot;

Wrong. Where do you think money comes from? The government never needs money. The goal of taxes is to maintain the value of money, not to fund the government.

This is not a trivial distinction. People who believe that the government needs money are apt to think that the government can &quot;go broke&quot; and similar nonsense which supports irrational budget policies.
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from yespage]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Taxing stupidity isn't a bad idea, however, I think that progressively taxing stupidity with a raising scale due to willful ignorance would improve the concept.

Evolution is a) a scientific theory that has substantial evidence supporting it, b) only a &quot;theory&quot;, c) a global conspiracy among scientists.  If you choose b, you get a 5% surcharge on the tax, c puts it up 10%. 

Scott Adams wants the poor to a) pay taxes, b) work harder, c) die.  :^P

The Civil War was fought over a) a number of issues which all mostly revolved over the issue of slavery, b) states rights, c) Lincoln was evil.  Same sort of surcharging.  

President Obama was born in a) Hawaii, b) I don't know, c) in Africa.  You get the point.  

Personally, to me, ignorance is unfortunate, but some people can only be so smart.  What is worse than ignorance is willful ignorance, when someone chooses to disregard truths and stick with what makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Anfauglir]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;That might help the government become more effective over time...... &quot;

I love the way you think that any government has an interest in making the population generally more intelligent and able to make rational choices!!!!!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from my2k]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Plenty of taxes on the stupid as others have mentioned: lottery, cigarettes, alcohol, if we make pot legal we could tax that too. We could tax fast food, sugar cereals, vegatarians might add meat.

We should do like mensa and tax &quot;smart&quot; people, make a test that if citizens do well enough on they can pay an annual fee to say they are among the smartest citizens, let everyone who takes it pass.

On a serious note, I would hope that kind of test is unconstitutional by the ammendment ending tests to qualify to vote... Just another way whitey is keeping the black man down.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from ECaruthers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott,
You should make up a test and post it on line.  Provide everyone who takes the test with a report - something like, &quot;Your stupid tax would be $500/year.  You are stupid about X but ok on A, B, C, and Z.&quot;

At the very least you'd show how (or whether) it's possible to separate &quot;stupid&quot; from &quot;uninformed about something I think matters.&quot;  And maybe, over time, others would help build a test we could all accept.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from jeffw_00]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@jdg: I said I was simplifying - by zero-sum I meant things like &quot;you can't simultaneously reduce taxes and increase gov. spending&quot; - good economics is -better- than zero-sum (you can generate growth by doing the -right- things) - but that requires educated government - which we don't have]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from usmdj]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We don't want to get rid of the stupid.  We need the stupid.  

Douglas Adams gave an example where all of the telephone cleaners were removed from society then everyone died of an ear infection plague.

What we really need is better herding of the stupid.  I suggest cattle prods.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from callcopse]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@Phantom II

Reading your posts over the years I genuinely do not understand why you do not relocate to Somalia or somewhere similar; you would have no government imposing anything on you then. I would not have to try and avoid reading your drivel either.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from HaraldB]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stupid people have a hard enough time all ready - allways getting into trouble, getting passed by at  work, and never knowing what to say. Tax the fat instead - they put a hard strain on health care and they're no good looking at. And at least I have a better chance at scoring with a dumb blonde than a smart one.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dogbertforking]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There is already a stupidity tax and we smart people pay it every day.  Through our taxes we pay for the stupid criminal to be prosecuted and pay for the defense as well.  We pay welfare to able bodied individuals to sit at home and produce kids.  We pay for kids to go through 12 years of education and come out not knowing much of anything.

I could go on but we productive members of society already pay the stupidity tax but it does not work the way you suggested and unfortunately, has the opposite effect of producing more stupid people.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Kosmo60]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Judging by the comments from most of the people posting, we could raise far more money with a tax on arrogance and superiority complexes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from jdg]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@jeffw_00: Not quite right.  Economics is not zero-sum; believing it is results in way too much government (aka welfare-statism), which is what is destroying our country today.  Read the works of Julian Simon, especially &quot;The Ultimate Resource&quot;.

As for women's lib, it's one of those ideas which sounds wonderful and fair but brings total ruin.  The 20th century, at least in the US and Europe, has been the century of socialism and of nanny-statism, both largely because women were given the vote.  I wish we could take it back.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from mkjhc]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A clear case of taken advantage of the weak and defenseless.  Might as well extrapolate to eugenics.

A little more humanity please.]]></description>
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