For my Libertarian friends

I'm moving back to NC next month.

Boo state income tax, state regulated liquor stores, and John Edwards. 

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Why the move?

Several reasons:

Both sides of my family is there (whereas only half of my wife's immediately family is here).  My relatives are having children and we want our kids to grow up with cousins (like I did).  There's also been 2 deaths in my family this year, so I kind of want to be with my family as much as possible.

I'm sick of the damn heat.

I'm sick of the damn lizards.

Our apartment complex is raising our rent $40 a month and we are not satisfied with the way our apartment complex has become (like our AC going out 5 times in one month before they fixed it).  So like good believers in capitalism, we are taking our money elsewhere.    For less than what we are paying here a month, we can live in the wealthiest neighborhood (single family home, not apartment) in my hometown.  We can have a yard for our kids to play in.

Since we both work at home, we can make the same amount of money each month but significantly reduce our cost of living.

Also, most of my friends are there and not here. 

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Pretty cogent argument. I approve of your logic and will allow you to move.

Thank you, noble leader.

Slartibartfast wrote: Epignosis wrote: I'm moving back to NC next month. Boo state income tax, state regulated liquor stores, and John Edwards.  I was going to vote for John.

I just have no respect for him.  It's not even just his politics (which of course I disagree with)- it's the man.

How can a husband and father go running around with some woman and father her child while his wife is coping with breast cancer?  What a disgrace.

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Epignosis wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: Pretty cogent argument. I approve of your logic and will allow you to move. Thank you, noble leader. Strange. I imagined you would look much different than that.

Yeah, that red garment really brings out my back pimples.

Equality 7-2521 wrote: All Parking Authority employees should be bound and  shot in a public place. Anyone disagree?

The joys of the PPA - back in college I parked in a "no parking zone" to literally run into a building for three minutes to retrieve something....by the time I got back outside the car was gone....tow truck must have been trolling

Equality 7-2521 wrote: An excessive $51 dollar parking ticket incurred at midnight on a street with no conceivable reason to disallow parking at the time. The signage was clearly meant to confuse people into thinking parking was allowed so that the city could make a cool $1000 dollars by gorging people as they're enjoying a Phillies playoff game. EDIT: Seriously even if signs were clear and I deliberately defied them how often is a meter person around at midnight on a Sunday? The answer is never. It was because there was a playoff game, and it was known that they could profit easily.

Edited by Trademark - October 21 2010 at 09:14

Trademark wrote:   Wise up man, this ain't Libertopia.

What principles of mine did you apply? You just came in here trolling like you usually do. You have no idea what my principles are let alone how to apply them.

Yes there is no private street-side parking in Philadelphia. Even most of the parking lots in the area of government granted lots.

There is no choice in the matter of government roads. I am forced to pay for them. I don't understand the choice in the matter. To say I chose to use the roads is ridiculous. I chose between what? Any option of me getting to the stadium has been monopolized by government. If government chopped down all trees and produced it own oxygen, Am I choosing to breath it? Don't be absurd.

Also as I said above, I didn't get caught doing sh*t. I got caught by the arbitrary whim of the city government. There were no signs disallowing parking. There was no indication that parking was not allowed.

If everyone joined my crusade the city would have two options. Stop preying on people to collect a hidden tax revenue, which it cannot openly institute, to finance the corrupt, wasteful, disgusting city government. Or the government could privatize streets, end its immoral monopoly, and allow some sanity to return to transportation.

The best solution would be for privatized roads. Newsflash, I tell people to move when its due to a transgression they do not like of private enterprise. It's a statement backed on proper property rights. Last I checked the government is not private.

If a gang of burglars entered broke into your house, and then said it would allow you to live there if you paid them a daily tax, I would not respond to you "well you just have to move if you don't like it" because a crime has been committed. There should be legal recourse. You owned your property and have been aggresed upon. The government does not legitimately own roads. It has no authority over them. They are burglars in the house. They should be expelled. I need not bend to their fancy.