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I always liked the thin man. The summation at dinner has been copied by everyone, but this movie was the first that I remember seeing it used.
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If you emigrate to the Cayman Islands, you do not have to pay taxes.
 
If I want to live with my parents, then they need to own a residence, be alive and want me living there.  If they are not happy with me living there, they can evict me just as an unrelated landlord does.  And my parents either have to pay the rent or pony up the $$ to own that house, so your "solutions" only pass the buck to someone else..
 
My friends (girl or otherwise) can punt me out too, and THEY either have to pay the landlord or pony up the $$ to buy the place at well.
 
I could sleep under a bridge or in the park, but then I get arrested for vagrancy.   I could walk far enough out of the city that no one notices me sleeping in the forest, so I don't get arrested.  When the mercury dips to -40 degrees, sleeping outside is a pretty poor option.  I guess I have to find somewhere that is not so cold - leave the location I do not like and find one I do.
 
But I have walked away from the location where I would have to pay the freight to sleep, and gone somewhere else.  Just as, if I do not want to pay the taxes imposed by the nation where I live, my choice is to find another nation whose tax policies are more to my liking, and go live there.  Or get involved politically and work to change my own country's tax policies, as Pariah suggests.  And listen to all the people who disagree with your approach voice their views of how you have messed up the country.
 
 
Do they not use the resources of the community to which they pay those property taxes?  Or should they just get a free ride, and those under 65 should pay for the resources they consume?  Let's assume that 20% of the properties in your municipality are occupied by seniors.  Are you OK with your property taxes rising 25% so we can collect the same money to pay for the same services, and they can ride for free?
 
There are two basic questions of any system of taxation:
 
 - how much do we collect?  That needs to be enough to pay for the services we provide.
 
 - how do we share the burden among all those we collect from?
 
The sad fact is that pretty much everyone wants services from the government which exceed the value of the taxes they pay to the government.  Many can't seem to make that simple connection that more, or better, government services requires paying more taxes.  I'm always amazed in the early spring when the phones at city hall ring off the hook with complaints about proposals to increase property taxes, and how slow and crappy the snow removal services are.
 
That doesn't change the reality that government debt is a serious problem.  Whether your objective is more and better services, or lower taxes, the money going to debt payments doesn't help achieve your objectives.  But what happens when we go to "voluntary taxes" and no one volunteers to contribute to interest or principal payments of the debt?  Do we just hope the lenders will be OK capitalizing their interest forever, or does someone who did not WANT to get FORCED to pay those costs?

It was either that or let people die. No one had the money to save because it was the great depression. Surviving businesses weren't going to help their employees.  The biggest opposition was inside the government that had already mismanaged the banking system and was trying to prevent a pull out of the depression because they didn't want to help anyone at all. It's very similar to how republicans opposed the ACA when it was based on their plan in the first place.
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Carol Hardy is the destructive villain know as Lens. She magnifies flaws in material until the material breaks under the stress of her regard
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The Train Man can use the tracks of the local railroads and elevateds to get around the city. He keeps his full potential hidden so he is considered weak for not having abilities away from the tracks. No one knows of his ability to summon trains wherever he is, and that he can use that to travel on open roads or the waters of Lake Michigan
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Five highlights for my dungeon are:
1) The Fish Tank: Numerous predatory fish are kept in a closed section of the Facility. From the Megalodon, to the Lake Placid Monster, each creature has its own space with plenty of fish to eat. Each separate section can be opened from the top but it is not recommended.
 
2) The Asylum: A few people have been experimented on. They have suffered mental breaks from reality. They are kept locked in and cared for by the staff so they can't use their powers and cause a breakout. That would be disastrous for both the Facility and New York City.
 
3) The Grimoire: The Facility has gained custody of magic using fiends/magicians/weird entities. They are kept on the other side of the Asylum in special traps and and cells. They are monitored to prevent the inmates from mixing with the Asylum across the place.
 
4) The Zoo: The Facility's major area is for the care of monsters and unnatural creatures that it has collected over the years. This is a major area of concern since some of the giant monsters breaking loose would naturally wreck the cells of the other prisoners.
 
5: Self Destruct System: If the system is breached, and there is a chance of some of the monsters and fiends escaping, the Facility can be destroyed with a mix of antimatter and nuclear fuel. It is assumed that a part of the city would just develop a sinkhole and part of the harbor would be radioactive.
 
No one knows.
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The Mysterion is a hero that may be a walking suit of armor, or a gas in a bag, or a fancy trickster. He appears in a cloud of mist, and disappears just as quickly. His calling card is a bowl of goldfish.
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Five highlights for my dungeon are:
1) The Fish Tank: Numerous predatory fish are kept in a closed section of the Facility. From the Megalodon, to the Lake Placid Monster, each creature has its own space with plenty of fish to eat. Each separate section can be opened from the top but it is not recommended.
 
2) The Asylum: A few people have been experimented on. They have suffered mental breaks from reality. They are kept locked in and cared for by the staff so they can't use their powers and cause a breakout. That would be disastrous for both the Facility and New York City.
 
3) The Grimoire: The Facility has gained custody of magic using fiends/magicians/weird entities. They are kept on the other side of the Asylum in special traps and and cells. They are monitored to prevent the inmates from mixing with the Asylum across the place.
 
4) The Zoo: The Facility's major area is for the care of monsters and unnatural creatures that it has collected over the years. This is a major area of concern since some of the giant monsters breaking loose would naturally wreck the cells of the other prisoners.
 
5: Self Destruct System: If the system is breached, and there is a chance of some of the monsters and fiends escaping, the Facility can be destroyed with a mix of antimatter and nuclear fuel. It is assumed that a part of the city would just develop a sinkhole and part of the harbor would be radioactive.
 
No one knows.
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The mighty Unicorn uses her horn of justice on evil doers on any evil doers who get in her way 
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Bee Woman has all the powers of a bee which she implants in her victims and causes them to obey her commands with their new tiny wings
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The mighty Unicorn uses her horn of justice on evil doers on any evil doers who get in her way 
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Bee Woman has all the powers of a bee which she implants in her victims and causes them to obey her commands with their new tiny wings
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The man in charge of the Facility and the man in charge of building the Facility is Rick Dicker, Government Agent. He thought he was retiring but he was assigned to the most deadliest place on earth with his sidekick guardian. 
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The Ginormus Ant is an ordinary ant that can grow to twenty five feet in length. His brute force allows him to bite through any obstacle in his way. Worse than that, he can summon swarms of his ant brothers to attack
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Who's the black surgical doc
That's as solid as a rock ?
(Graft)
You're damn right
Who is the man
That would attach his neck to his brother man ?
(Graft)
Can you dig it ?
Who's the cat that won't cop out
When there's danger all about ?
(Graft)
Right on
They say Graft was struck off
(Shut your mouth)
But I'm talkin' 'bout Graft
(Then we can dig it)
He's a dedicated man
But no one understands him but his victims
(John Graft)
 
The evil surgeon that does experiments on people involving transplanting living tissue, that is John Graft
 
Shaft was blaxploitation and change the lyrics and voila mad scientist

Watched Storks with the boy. Storks have given up delivering kids to deliver packages. They have a human mad scientist who was a baby that grew up in their factory and assigned to the closed mail room. When a letter comes in for a baby, she puts the letter into the baby making machine. Hijinks  ensue as the mad scientist and the stork getting ready to be promoted have to deliver the baby before the boss finds out and the stork gets fired.
 
Key and Peele steal the scenes they are in as crazy wolves. Form of a Wolf Submarine
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Why Go There: Someone always wants to use the Facility's inhabitants to attack something. They are living weapons that can be dropped on target and allowed to run wild. The only problem is putting them back in the box.
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Mythic Guardian: The Facility below  New York is guarded by a mysterious creature who tries to keep the other monsters in check. This guardian has a propensity for Electricity and is known to use electrical blasts to show intruders the door. The monsters must be left alone.
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The architect goals: Deep below the city, the government created a vault to store some of the vast experimental ideas that were created during the cold war. An entrance/loading dock was hooked to the subway system at one end, and the harbor at the other. This was done for resupply and fast deployment. Some of the creations have broken out and wander the complex.
 
Both doors should be sealed, but no one has been down to make sure.
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I'm picking New York
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Steve Erkette is looking for a cure like Larry Hilton-Talbot. He thought he had a means to teleport worked out, but when he tried it out, it mixed his molecules with a spider. Now he commands his dog-sized offspring to eat any enemies as he tries to get his equipment back from the people the landlord sold it to thinking he was dead.
 
He is Black Arachniod
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Steve Erkette is looking for a cure like Larry Hilton-Talbot. He thought he had a means to teleport worked out, but when he tried it out, it mixed his molecules with a spider. Now he commands his dog-sized offspring to eat any enemies as he tries to get his equipment back from the people the landlord sold it to thinking he was dead.
 
He is Black Arachniod
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Wolfman of Watts
 
Lawrence Hilton-Talbot was caught up in the Watts riots and was running from the police and ended up hiding in an abandoned building. As he wandered deeper into the building he was stalked and attacked by what he thought was a guard dog and was left for dead. He survived and soon discovered on the next full moon that he was actually attacked by a werewolf and was now cursed to be one himself. He began a killing spree targeting police and other authority figures which brought him to the attention of Blacula. He wants to find a cure for his curse, but part of him does enjoy having the power to fight back against the establishment.  

Every time Trump tore up a piece of paper information on his desk, he was committing a crime. At one point, people were putting that stuff back together for the national archive before they were fired. The fact is that Trump has committed so many crimes that it becomes a thing on what's important enough to impeach on, and what isn't. They should have started impeachment when the Mueller report came out and Bill Barr tried to hand over a redacted report
 
They should have started impeaching Barr too
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