DOMA and Prop 8. Both History.

[kandrathe]

It's also a little on the long side, and occasionally tends towards the didactic? No Randian hero is less than heroic, no villain less than despicable, with truly absurd amounts of space used extemporizing on precisely why this is the case. No quest of the righteous goes unresolved, nobody with a contrary philosophy is given any quarter.

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I still have an extremely hard time not reading Dagny Taggart as anything but a pretty egregious Mary Sue. But that strikes me as the least of the book's problems.

She was no Tennessee Williams, neither in quality or productivity. She happened to make some well connected friends, which is the reason we probably even have heard of her.

Although, at times in our society, it seems some of it rings true. Such as, GE paying zero taxes, while getting huge government subsidies. And, the irony of one of the worlds richest men, Mr. Buffet complaining about low income taxes, right up until you suggest we modify capital gains or put oversight and regulation on derivatives/Credit Default Swaps (the very thing that melted down the economy last time). Meanwhile, your average schmoe is strugling to keep their home above water, or ends up paying upwards of 50% effective tax. No, we aren't a society that's brain dead on the opium of handouts -- although we get closer and closer, year by year.