# 143 days **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 11, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/143-days/199552 "2008-09-11T14:21:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 89
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> [@Halloween Party Pics](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/halloween-party-pics/37786/61): > > And we could be making our own fuel with even MORE AMERICAN JOBS!!!111 > > and again, FOR THE 10TH TIME, ITS ABOUT WHERE THE MONEY GOES!!! Ya know who gets the VAST MAJORITY of the money from the oil that is produced in Saudi Arabia? SAUDI ARABIANS! If we were producing our own oil/gas/biofuels here in America, guess who gets that money. AMERICANS!!! Trillions of Dollars! dick… we are buying their natural resources… duh… when we sell ours are you mad that other countries are contributing to our economy. the raw material of fossilized oil is a market that dictates it’s own price. Stop driving and help the cause. 1. I am not against drilling in america… the amount of oil in the earth is well beyond any of our life times, if not centuries. > How about when we’re on the verge of total economic collapse. :dunno: it only makes it worse. > having a progressive tax system is NOT akin to communism. 🤣 “progressive tax system” A progressive tax is a tax imposed so that the tax rate increases as the amount subject to taxation increases.[1][2][3][4][5] In simple terms, it imposes a greater burden (relative to resources) on the rich than on the poor. “Progressive” describes a distribution effect on income or expenditure, referring to the way the rate progresses from low to high, where the average tax rate is less than the marginal tax rate. “Communism” Communism is a socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production and property in general. Communism states that the only way to solve these problems would be for the working class, or proletariat, to replace the wealthy bourgeoisie, which is currently the ruling class, in order to establish a peaceful, free society, without classes, or government. akin = similar redistribution seems to be obvious in both! --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/143-days/199552)._