What the holy heck? First of all, nearly everything is tainted with narcotics and fecal matter. You know those handle bars on the metro? You touch that then you come in contact with whatever the person before you came in contact. The denser the city, the more stuff was in contact with. Also, tainted does not mean visible to the naked eye traces, it means having a minimum quantity which is delectable by current equipment, which is very very little.
My point is you have one less reason to wear gloves.
Oil is currently a fantastic storage of energy, we don't (I think) anything which comes close to oil, except possibly nuclear, not to mention its many other uses such as for plastic, lubrication, and medical. Don't like oil? Use more mass transit instead of your own vehicle and stop purchasing so many plastics. Also, use less energy because most energy is generated from coal plants because coal and oil are very closely tied together since they *gasp* come from the same thing!
I'm not against using oil. I'm against going to war over it using borrowed money.
52% of a countries budget? I assume you are referring to the USA, which uses only 19% of the budget. And a massive amount of that money is spent not on actual warfare but instead places like Darpa and their Big Dog, further research on nuclear power for submarines and aircraft carriers, further research into extremely high end aviation stuff. Not to mention the huge amount of money they invest into their engineers and educating them, such as offering free tuition for people who wish to work for the military as a Nuclear tech.
Costs of war when you have a standing military are debatable. In the US, much of the military budget is not included in the 2 year appropriations. It simply becomes debt.
If you don't like the way your current government handles wars, then why did you vote them in? Voting for someone else is far easier than attempting to change the currency of the country. Don't like either the Democratic Party and Obama or the Republican party and Romney? Then vote for a third party, or even better, vote in the primaries to chance the candidate for the party!
Voting ended in the US in 2000 with electronic voting machines. They are not auditable.
If we get rid of money printing presses, then kings or parliaments that want to commit these atrocities must ask their subjects to donate their savings to do so. A nation willing to commit atrocities wholeheartedly is easier to deal with by the world courts. Maybe there are alternatives to bloodshed.
What? If you are referring to the world courts, we already have them in a meh state, known as the UN. Also, what do you think taxes is? Bitcoin is a form of a currency, just like a USD, when you do taxes then the governments ask for tax money from you. If you do not give it to them, you go to prison for tax evasion or something like that. With bitcoin it would be exactly the same, the government calculates your tax rate and asks you to pay them. If you don't, you go to prison by force. There would be no difference.
Dear god the tinfoil hatness here is insane at times.
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Many world courts condemn policies and actions, but are powerless to enforce them because some institutions are too big to fail and are protected by the banks by being given (literally) thousands of tonnes of free money printed off their presses. That much money can buy a lot of corruption.
I agree with you about taxes. We should pay whatever our masters tell us to.
