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MrModerate

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3. I'd say if you have characters sitting around bullshitting about . . .

Reply to Fumesucker (Original post)

Thu Jun 7, 2012, 12:10 AM

Jun 2012

interstellar tax policy in such a ham-handed fashion you need to decide whether you're reading a novel or an essay. A particularly lame-brained essay at that.

Infamous crypto-libertarian Robert Heinlein was masterful in the way he folded his stories around his political beliefs in a way that made them palatable to people like me who knew he was something of a crackpot and disagreed with him in just about every particular.

Weber is several tiers below that.

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David Weber, absolute proof that very smart people can buy into wingnut bullshit.. [View all] Fumesucker May 2012 OP

I am of course astonished that a Baen author is a wingnut... Posteritatis May 2012 #1

Nothing wrong with a flat tax. krispos42 May 2012 #2

I'd say if you have characters sitting around bullshitting about . . . MrModerate Jun 2012 #3

There ain’t no such thing as a big simple tax Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2012 #4

Alien star systems, some have to pay taxes eh! jambo101 Jan 2013 #5