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Sini #142592 12/24/17 02:26 PM
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If I am wrong about that, I look forward to your links to articles from anyone complaining about high air fares caused by a Boeing monopoly, high taxes caused by Ex Im loans, or the current crippling rate of inflation.

I'll wait...


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Originally Posted by Owain
Sini, I didn't choose Boeing to be the hill you die on. You did that all by yourself.


You started running your mouth about how Trump's tax policy of redistributing wealth from the middle class to multinational corporations and wealthy is returning money these bad actors supposedly earned. Then you blundered to pick Boeing as an example of upstanding corporate citizen. I proceeded to demonstrate that Boeing is a poster child for corporate welfare. So no, you picked Boeing, and now you won't admit that your argument was taken apart at every turn. At this point you doubled-down about dozen times, and well into "la la la I am not listening" denial.

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If your ego wont permit you to admit you are wrong, that doesn't bother me a bit.


No, I simply like arguing about politics. However, discussing anything with you reminds me of talking to my cat. Sure, the cat is there, and appear to listen, but all it really is interested in is feeding.

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Life is just going to suck for you, because I don't see any of that changing any time soon, because no one cares but deranged lefties.


Thing is, I started at the left of center. As I got older and wealthier, I moved right of center. During 80s, my today's views would be considered mainstream conservatism. You know, stuff like don't spend too much of borrowed money, don't intentionally write bad laws, don't be too greedy at the trough. If you see me as "deranged lefties", then you lost all perspective. Our last argument was over corporate welfare, where my position is that it is bad thing and distorts markets, and your position that it doesn't matter, and let us cut taxes on them some more. Yet, despite opposing "spend baby, spend!" Trump tax policy I am labeled the irresponsible one.




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Originally Posted by Owain
If I am wrong about that


You are being modest. You are wrong just about everything.

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I look forward to your links to articles from anyone complaining about high air fares caused by a Boeing monopoly, high taxes caused by Ex Im loans, or the current crippling rate of inflation.


I am not sure you read any of the articles I linked, but here are some more:

Brookings on aircraft industry. This Brookings Institution

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The basic logic behind trade enforcement mechanisms, whether pursued unilaterally or multilaterally through the WTO, is an attempt to “level the playing field,” or to correct the market for the distortions of government interventions. The problem is, when it comes to aircraft manufacturing, there’s never been anything close to a perfectly competitive, distortion-free market: It’s politics and subsidies all the way down.

Given how governments are so deeply and fundamentally involved in the industry, asking what a jet would cost in the absence of government distortions to the market is an impossible question. Government distortions constitute the aircraft market; take them away, and there’s nothing left.


[PDF] List of Boeing Subsidies challenged by EU . This is list where EU has sufficient evidence to start trade dispute.

The Economist: Boeing vs Bombardier


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Where in that does anyone cite the things you claim that specifically are the most damaging? Does anyone, anywhere on the planet, share your concerns? No one at all, out of 7 billion people?

Psychiatrists have a name for people who worry excessively about things that concern no one else at all.

Delusional.


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So Owain, when other people ask you about your political alignment, do you lie through your teeth and tell them you are a conservative? Because even you must know that if you admit to your actual political views to everyone, they will finally have a definitive proof that you are not of a sound mind? Stuff you post here could probably be used as evidence by your relatives to get power of attorney over you. So wipe that browser cache and make sure nobody sees you post this shit here.


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Ad hominem. Must have hit a nerve.
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Did you had to practice to get this hypocritical, or does it come naturally to you? I suspect you would make an excellent White House Press Secretary. Try applying, if you need references - this thread can be your reference.

Just a post above, you called me delusional. You also called me much worse throughout this thread. If you are too fragile to handle your own medicine, maybe you should behaved better yourself?

Back to my question, I want to know:

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So Owain, when other people ask you about your political alignment, do you lie through your teeth and tell them you are a conservative?



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Based upon your posts, where you complain about things that are of no apparent concern to anyone but you, delusional might be an accurate description.

But that is a reference to your nonsensical arguments. I cannot help it if you choose to employ nonsensical argument. When you do, all one can do is point that out.


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But before I can answer your question, I need a clarification. What is a violation of conservatism in what I have talked about?


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Lets start with naming some of your conservative values. You do have values, don't you?

I will even start with an example, to making it easier for you to understand this question. I believe that direct government intervention into free markets with cash injections, free loans, and targeted tax cuts distorts the markets and ultimately increases costs to anyone participating in the markets.


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