I was just reading the news. There were two stories
(links below) that got my attention for the same reason, and eliminating the
issues would be very easy. (Actually, there was a third story that interested
me, but for a very different reason.) One
had the headline “Judge rules Texas same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional”,
and the other bore the headline “Dim prospects for House Republican plan to
overhaul tax code.” You would have to
read the article to know the details, but both relate to some people getting privileges
that not everyone gets. That means that there are violations of the Fourteenth
Amendment in both.
I may have written something before about the
problem with the brouhaha about marriage between homosexuals, but the heart of
the matter is that married people get privileges that are not given to
unmarried people, and that is wrong. Everyone should get the same privileges.
There is a side issue in that; to wit, marriage is a matter of state
regulation, and the feds have no business getting involved. It is perfectly
valid for one state to have no regulation of marriage and another state allowing
it only between third cousins. But the easy way to eliminate the problem is to
eliminate governmental regulation of marriage. I don’t believe that it is any
concern of government who is interacting with whom. If they produce children,
then they should be held to account, but that should not give them move
privileges.
The dim prospects for overhauling the tax code
involve which pieces of extra privilege they will be able to get to whom. If
they were to simplify the tax code so that there were no special breaks, then
it would work better for everyone, but nothing passes congress unless everyone
gets special treatment. That suggests that congress should eliminate more
special deals, so that things could get passed. I fail to understand why there
are any unequal taxes. It seems obvious that if everyone paid an equal rate on
everything, then it would be fairer and easier to determine whether anyone was
cheating. It would be so easy, that some people who avoid taxes as much as they
can would start paying, because it would be so easy. It could be worded so that
it would seem like you, and I were being treated better than those others, but
those others would interpret ate it that they were getting a deal that you and
I weren’t getting, too simple for words.
The other article was about a court ordering Youtube
to remove trailers for the movie “Innocence of Muslims”, which is a poorly done
broad attack on Islam and Mohammed. Apparently it was made by Christian Egyptians,
so there are some real problems that underlie the movie, but the movie is amateurish
and not well thought out, see link below. It is my opinion that reinterpretation
has turned Islam from an excellent answer to Christianity into something that
is foreign to the Koran, just as a beginning. I don’t like censorship, but that
movie is bad in pretty much every way that I can imagine. When we get a working
time machine we will be able to make a much better movie about the birth of
Islam. If the link doesn’t work, when you try it, then wait a while, and it may
return. If that doesn’t work, then try google to see if there are any new
locations for it.
“Innocence of Muslims”
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cda_1347507079
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cda_1347507079
