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Well you have a good point there.

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Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend (Post 1166477)

And why is Liz not in the same water as me who said he'd keep it? Not that I want him to get dragged into this. (really hope he doesn't)

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Originally Posted by Jagos

Because he sparkles?

I'm a girl.

Besides, Blingee doesn't pay for itself.

It does if you're a prostitute.

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Originally Posted by Jagos (Post 1166476)

And on this note I'd better go ahead and post the reason for this story (before it gets ugly). There's actually a reason I brought up Ben Stiller. For a few days, I've been reading this story about how cities all over the US are subsidizing movies in Hollywood. That actually shows how we have some messed up priorities in governance. We give Ben Stiller $10 million from taxes as part of an overlapping subsidy for his new movie Tower Heist. The problem is, just recently 777 Employees school employees have been laid off in NY.

Ben Stiller did not receive $10 million, and $10 million were not taken from teachers. You can't just say that every dollar in taxes that goes into some crap is being taken directly and entirely from whichever government funded entity you feel like all the good ol' folk might get worked up in a fit of populist rage over. Nor can you say the entirety of it is being given to an individual who is in fact only benefiting to a very diluted degree (if at all) from that subsidization. Ben Stiller is an employee of the entity being subsidized. For all I know his salary is fixed (as it is for many actors), and it would have been the same regardless, meaning only other aspects of the production would have been effected. The way you present this information is bullshit, and you should know that.

Also the way you formatted this thread is stupid. Just present us the information in the first post, don't play some shitty game where you try to push people towards a point where you can leap in and go "AHA, THEN YOU MUST AGREE WITH ME ON THIS!"

I wouldnt' mind movie tax credits or whatever the shit if there were a decently sane progressive income tax or whatever.

I guess what I would consider a decently sane progressive income tax would mean there's like no way anyone could make fifteen million dollars a year from anything, making shitty Ben Stiller comedies or otherwise.

So it's pretty much a wash.

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Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend (Post 1166477)

Yes education is in dire need of it but so are other things too. Cancer Research, helping out 3rd world countries, and helping the homeless and the poor, providing jobs for the jobless, etc.

Hey tool, if we don't improve the schools then there won't be people to research cancer.

Yes because being reasonable makes a man a tool.

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Originally Posted by The Sevenshot Kid (Post 1166498)

Hey tool, if we don't improve the schools then there won't be people to research cancer.

You're late to the party bro, but thanks for filing your complaint.

I will take the ten million dollars and pay it to a large brawny man in exchange for picking you both up by your necks and comically clonking your heads together.

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Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend (Post 1166499)

Yes because being reasonable makes a man a tool.

That's not true and neither is you saying that you're being reasonable.

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Fifth, I'd take that bullet.

Five million up front, five million if he can make your heads do an actual "clonk" sound.