Wednesday, February 26, 2014

More Inequality


 
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.



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