So is representation without taxation, if you think about it.

My mom raised me to not use force except in self defense. Not even to raise tax money. Did yours?

I assumed by "publicly funded" you meant "tax funded". If you don't think taxes are coercive, what happens when an individual doesn't pay it?

Another beautiful fallacy. Being against coercively funded education or healthcare != conservative.

Keep them coming.

I'm also against coercively funded food and shelter, but I bet you are too.

I don't recall there being a single conservative here. Maybe Red but that's about it.

The work, to be reported today in the journal Nature Neuroscience, grew out of decades of previous research suggesting that political orientation is linked to certain personality traits or styles of thinking. A review of that research published in 2003 found that conservatives tend to be more rigid and closed-minded, less tolerant of ambiguity and less open to new experiences. Some of the traits associated with conservatives in that review were decidedly unflattering, including fear, aggression and tolerance of inequality. That evoked outrage from conservative pundits.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives’ brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other “primitive” emotions. At the same time, conservatives’ brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate — the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

Hoarders spending money into the economy doesn't grow it. That's just consumption: taking real wealth out and putting currency in, bidding up prices.

To grow the economy, hoarders would need to invest their coins. investment creates or grows new businesses, which is precisely economic growth. The thing is, you can't really loan out bitcoins at the moment, but this is a problem of a lack of infrastructure, which will come with time.

Just holding coins forever doesn't impact the economy, except by lowering prices due to reduced supply of coins in the active economy.

usdCoin miners? A different chain? Why? Just "taint" satoshis, no need to create another chain, that's much more complicated.

EDIT: For those who don't know, one satoshi = 0,01µBTC, the minimal bitcoin unit. And "tainting" a coin is just marking it and following where it goes. The issuer could credit a bunch of addresses with 0,01µBTC each, and publicly state that each of those satoshis could be redeemable by, say, $1. They could be transferred and all just like any other bitcoin, the issuer himself cannot control where they go once they transfer it to someone else.

Old guy on Jekyll Island: This might not work, you know most people aren't going to understand.
Another old guy: I don't think that's going to be a problem.

What an interesting idea!

It's true that you would still have some almost-central "point of failures", which are the issuers, that could be shut down. But, if at least a few countries in the world have governments which are not that authoritarian, these issuers could establish in those places. Sort of what Pecunix tries to do in order to avoid the same fate of e-gold.

The trick is to feed the trolls in the "off-topic" section by posting troll like stuff. But now that I posted you the secret to keep'em away the trolls will be all over this thread(its what they do)

but wait a minute what if because they know I'm trying to do reverse psychology that they will just not post to make me look like I don't know what I'm talking about because if they came in an trolled then I'd be right, but if they now don't come in a troll I will be wrong and thus its more humorously-profitable to not troll and watch everyone troll me(whom are not usualy trolls).

umm, why are you using bitcoind.exe to generate namecoin address? or am i missing something here?

+1

In France there has been a study recently, about the amount of tax money used to pay people in charge of organizing distribution of public help to homeless people.  Once we divided the total amount by the number of those homeless people, it was almost enough to pay them an hotel room.  Every night.