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No, I'd say it was punitive if it was intended to punish. That being what the word means.

As I said, I'd love to take, say, the Dakotas and adjacent parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan and set up the tax-free haven you fantasize about. If you were dumb enough to go in the first place, you'd be begging to be let out pretty damn quick.

Right. Now apply that to the case before us. Taxslave is being punished by people who acted before he was born? I thought only Gawd could do that.

Not if the purpose is "Make the marks think we give two shits for their opinions."

Don't know the difference between "resign" and "removed." Check.

How is a tax "invented" for a specific purpose that has long passed "punitive?" You need to look up "punitive" in a good dictionary. Hint: It don't mean "I don't like it."

I think it's a great idea, given that most humans over 20 or so can only learn through pain.

Depends. Is he a lawyer? Cuz we all know only lawyers and politicians I don't like lie.

I'd vote for you! If you ran. And I could vote. Depending on the party you ran under. And the riding. And I'd need to see a recent picture showing your 'do.

For values of "unequal or punitive" = makes me feel hard-done-by.

The internet offers the possibility of direct democracy on a scale larger than a small town for the first time in history (Several small towns in New England have it, and always have). I wonder if any of our posters here would go for it.

Aww. . . did somebody hurt your feewings? Let's get you a hot cocoa.

Question: Does anybody actually give two squirts of piss about the truckers' grievances (whatever those may be), or is this just a proxy for loving/hating True Dope?

That's the Big Island. Hurlers, now. . .

Specially if it just slips your mind to announce yourselves as police. But I tell ya what. If I was a home-invasion robber, I'd crash through the door shouting "Police! On the floor!"

Can I look at the physical landscape instead? Way less disgusting. But thanks for answering my question in your own way, which, amusingly, you'd probably call "honest."

Question about terminology. . . I'm minded of a book (Ten Pound Penalty by Dick Francis) where a British politician's son asked "Are you running for office?" He replied, "If we were in America, like your friend Jeremy, I would be, but since this is Britian, I'm standing for Parliament." I know...

I don't see how her level of sexual experience is relevant.

Son, we'll never have honest discussions at all in groups bigger than what can fit in a standard-size parlor. Or kitchen table.

I don't suppose either of you has a reference to any source other than your recta? (Plural of "rectum" fer us edumacated folk.)