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Buttcoin, you just pull it out of...

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Brownbacking? Is that some new perversion?

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Microeconomics 200 (meaning an 18 year old can get it). It costs money to prevent waste. There's a certain point where you're actually spending more to get rid of the waste that's left than just allowing some to continue. It is more economical, ie cheaper, to allow some waste than to try to eliminate all of it.

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What corn fields? We're not talking about Nebraska. (Kansas's biggest crop is wheat).However, there is LOTS of value in Kansas - the enormous Hugoton gas field is mainly under western Kansas. They also have oil. That's why there is a very $$$rich$$$ oil industry services company based in Wichita - Koch Industries.

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Brownbacking is just another term for regressive taxes aimed at minorities.

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It's commonly called "The Law of Diminishing Returns".

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"FAUL-TY! FAUL-TY! MUST AN-AL-YSE!"

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More specifically it's called the "optimal economic level of abatement". But who's counting?

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How about fucking just a poor? Like they just rotate a few every month in the state senate's GOP dunking booth?

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Priceless insofar as there's no number big enough to express its cost?

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Being poor is un-Christian!

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I saw that movie. It was called "In Time"...with Justin Timberlake.

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Like watching Captain Kirk destroy a computer with illogic.

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You laugh, but how many people said "Floods in Texas? Yeah, that'll be the day."

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I'm starting to think it was Kansas, not the witch, who said "Surrender, Dorothy!"

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