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In the discussion thread: David Weber, absolute proof that very smart people can buy into wingnut bullshit.. [View all]

Thu Jun 7, 2012, 12:10 AM

3. I'd say if you have characters sitting around bullshitting about . . .

interstellar tax policy in such a ham-handed fashion you need to decide whether you're reading a novel or an essay. A particularly lame-brained essay at that.

Infamous crypto-libertarian Robert Heinlein was masterful in the way he folded his stories around his political beliefs in a way that made them palatable to people like me who knew he was something of a crackpot and disagreed with him in just about every particular.

Weber is several tiers below that.

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5 replies	Author	Time	Post
David Weber, absolute proof that very smart people can buy into wingnut bullshit.. [View all]	Fumesucker	May 2012	OP
I am of course astonished that a Baen author is a wingnut...	Posteritatis	May 2012	#1
Nothing wrong with a flat tax.	krispos42	May 2012	#2
I'd say if you have characters sitting around bullshitting about . . .	MrModerate	Jun 2012	#3
There ain’t no such thing as a big simple tax	Fortinbras Armstrong	Jun 2012	#4
Alien star systems, some have to pay taxes eh!	jambo101	Jan 2013	#5

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