Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Styxhexenhammer666" channel.

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  7. Nice idea, but it will never happen without a revolution. The problem with revolutions is generally they get hijacked. Taxes. If an income tax is necessary make a simple flat tax. There are two ways to do it. A single percentage that everybody pays. Or a system where from 0 to X you pay no taxes. X to Y say 5%. Y to Z say 8%. Above Z 10%. And you do not have to pay on previously earned income when you move up to a higher bracket. And there are no personal deductions. Period. Businesses are a different matter. It's not just income taxes people pay. Its excise taxes on gas, tires etc. Its State, County and sometimes City Sales taxes. Go on vacation and you'll pay an extra room tax and possibly extra taxes on food. One could argue that at least they're fair in that you used it. One thing that would lessen regulation and make it easier on business is to reduce the number of fuel blends the EPA mandates for cars that burn gasoline. Summer blends, winter blends. Region A gets a different blend than B. Either outlaw government worker unions or eliminate any say they have in firing and hiring. There are areas where government oversight may need to be increased or maintain the same level. Clean water for one. Sewage districts for another. Air quality. Personally I'm in favor of banning coal burning power plants after a certain date. But I'm also in favor of increased government sponsored research into fusion power. I'm not talking about the money pit in France the Dept of Energy is involved in. I'm talking about some of the start-ups that are looking at alternatives to the extremely large projects. Building a reactor that can achieve fusion is actually pretty easy. People have done it in their basements. Getting usable power out is something else. One thing that goes along with fusion research is materials research especially high temp superconductors. Increased medical research that focuses on improved public health.
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  22. In the era between the Norse abandonment of Vinland* and Columbus's 1st voyage the complete absence of Europeans is somewhat of an open question. The Norse** settlers on Greenland certainly would have been crossing the Davis Strait to Labrador for timber. By the 1480s if not earlier fishing fleets from Bristol and probably the Basque region of Spain were fishing on the Grand Banks. That they may have had temporary encampments, bases whatever on Nova Scotia is likely. It is also likely that the odd European or North African vessel wound up in the Caribean or Atlantic seaboard due to weather. If they got home that's another story. Concerning indeginous permanent settlements on the Atlantic Seaboard all of the early Pilgrim or Puritain settlements were on the sites of former Native settlements that had been essentially wiped out due to one epidemic or another. By the 1600s the natives had over a century of dealing with Europeans and while they were willing to trade the preferred to keep them at arms length. As a side note one early explorer (Vespucci iirc) was exploring around present day Rhode Island he had Native guests aboard his ship. Some of whom were wearing Venitian glass and one had a broken Vinetian sword. Maybe from a lost ship or explorers who never got home. Plus by the 1600s some of the ships trading along the Atlantic Coast were crewed entirely by natives. * by Vinland I mean in the general sense of any settlements in North America. I doubt the the found on the Northern tip of Newfoundland was the only one. ** Norse and not Viking. The term Viking is related more to an activity than a specific people.
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