you might appreciate having those lines and laws protecting those lines if a country that doesn't have enough resources decides to send a couple hundred thousand troops and mercenaries over to take control of your resources

but that would be extremely unlikely in this modern civilized world...
maladroit Reviewed by maladroit on . Updated bailout price tag: 840 Billion? I'm surprised this hasn't come up over the past couple of days, but yesterday I saw something quite interesting in the news. While we were all focused intently on the bailout negotiations, the Treasury Department quietly released a five-sentence statement saying it had repealed section 382 (I think) of the tax code. Section 382 kept corporations from claiming losses taken on by buying failing corporations for tax deductions/exemptions (I don't know the exact way it works) This was Rating: 5