On 1/14/2015 11:58 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
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*Subject:* Re: Democracy
On 1/14/2015 10:20 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
NSA is only authorized to keep domestic communication data 5yr.
Well that's a relief!
But this is mostly just metadata. It is obviously appropriate to keep
data for
some period. Discussions of an airline flight that seem innocent may
become
important evidence weeks later when that flight is bombed.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"
And who decides what's reasonable? So far it's the courts and Congress. You may not
think it's reasonable, but you only get one vote.
And with the almost unlimited as well as largely un-attributable money flooding the
American political process at every level you believe that every person has equal
influence on the political process?
No, but I doubt Jason puts in enough money to get two votes. It's not that hard to see
where the big money comes from even if we don't get a legally mandated exact count. I
think this is actually a secondary problem due to the extreme inequality of wealth; but I
don't really know what to do about it. In the long run we could impose a direct wealth
tax. It seems a little unfair that I have to pay property tax on my home which represents
80% of my wealth, while a really rich person has his wealth in stocks and bonds and hedge
funds and only pays property tax on 5% of his wealth.
But any such proposal to raise taxes causes conservatives and libertarians to raise
specters of socialism and government control.
Brent
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