Cuba is easily one of the best examples right now, though under a communist regime. With an effective planned economy, generally great universal health care and an impressive literacy rate, it's doing quite well for itself. Hell, they even have the best carbon output ratio.

Because of the Dark Ages, when you take things literally, nothing good comes out of it. Even if Christianity is embedded into America, that doesn't reunite Church and State. They run in completely separate ruts.

Jesus wouldn't of supported Capitalism, remember how he sent away the tax collectors and supported the poor? If anything, he hated money.

"It is theft if you pay the government almost half of what you make."

That's basically citizenship rent. I have no problem with paying rent.

"It is theft when you have to run your business the way the government wants you to run it. And they do this by restrictions. Socialism is a way of life...it has more to do with peoples lives than money. "

I support the businesses being forced to play on equal grounds. I support an equal chance for everyone, limitation brings creativity.

As for the neighbour situation, I would pay for them, because God taught me to love my neighbour. I like to think that it's better to support humanity as a whole, just like the saying "United we stand, divided we fall." Face it, if it were completely capitalist, we'd have a different America. An America with a much more vast wealth gap resulting in a lower standard of living. Besides, I'm Canadian, my health care is already free.

Then other religious headgear should be banned on that grounds too right? He found a clever way to use the law, and for that, we salute him.

Not only that, but it sustains the pants at a more consistent height throughout the day. Something I look for when my pants are a tad large.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"

I'm also technically getting someone else's hard efforts too aren't I? If I do his job, and he does mine, then everyone's getting along fine. What's the point in keeping my product if it's of no use to me, but completely useful for my neighbour? That's just plain greedy.

So as a guy, eating meat makes me straight. Wait, what? It'd make sense if this were for females.

As a guy, eating cabbage should make me straight. Vegetarian = Heterosexual if male.

As long as it's her property, I have no issue with that and the arrest is just ridiculous. One should be able to do whatever they want with their land.

Now if it were a landlord/lady's, then that would be reasonable grounds, it's like stealing land.

It is a cool idea, but that sort of technology seems expensive. Why not just use that research money to increase renewable energy? Planting trees on rooftop greenspaces makes more sense and will probably have the same effect.

Assuming purify means: CO2 to breathable oxygen, there's a possibility that type of garment will be made of some sort of organism like moss, which is ugly. Most people wear clothes for style and not to be productive. Otherwise, I can only see the idea working for miners in dusty areas or labourers in hazardous environments.

I do visit, even though most of the items are poorly made and probably from sweatshops. It's a cheap way to supply the first world with petty things, so why the hell not.

"Legalized theft" doesn't show it in a good light like "rewards"...

Still, it wouldn't be theft, if everything produced is publicly owned, who are you stealing from? You would technically be stealing from yourself as well as everyone else. There should be enough 'x' to supply the entire nation anyway, so nobody loses anything.