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@Mr.Automatic

If Iran were to completely shut off all of their oil production, or Saudi Arabia, do you have any fucking idea what that would do to our economy? Oil would SHOOT past $200 a barrel on its way to god knows what. Our already on thin ice economy would come to a screeching halt. It would be like the great depression, except worse. Countries would go to war. The country would plunge into poverty. Then, after a while, law and order would start to break down.

But thats not us really relying on them or anything. They just have the ability to completly fuck our country over. No big deal. No reason to worry. Those folks all LOVE US!!!

That would happen with any foriegn dependency. what is interesting is that we can actually go and drill for this oil in our own county and pull out of the ‘crisis’. oil alone will not fail the economy… no matter how much you want to believe it will… gas can go to $15.00 a gallon and guess what, people that want to drive will.

and your little situation is quite the ‘sky is falling’ syndrome… check out the our top importers of crude and petrolium.

CRUDE :

CANADA
SAUDI ARABIA
MEXICO
VENEZUELA
NIGERIA
RUSSIA
IRAQ
ANGOLA
ALGERIA
VIRGIN ISLANDS
BRAZIL
UNITED KINGDOM
NETHERLANDS
ECUADOR
KUWAIT

Petrol:

CANADA
SAUDI ARABIA
MEXICO
VENEZUELA
NIGERIA
RUSSIA
IRAQ
ANGOLA
ALGERIA
VIRGIN ISLANDS
BRAZIL
UNITED KINGDOM
NETHERLANDS
ECUADOR
KUWAIT

Go grab a globe. we don’t appear to be a single threaded as your little situation above makes it appear… do we?

@ShalerPunk"

Comparing progressive taxation to communism is inaccurate. Communism is equality of outcome, our system tries to establish equality of oppertunity.

I’m arguing that progressive tax bracketing is similar to the Robin Hood Theory which is pretty close to communism. A lot closer than percentage based fixed brackets. no?