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Post #11 (isolation #1) » Tue Jun 23, 2015 2:02 pm
Postby shaft.ed »
In post 3, MonkeyMan576 wrote:But she has a huge lead. You would think the logical political strategy would be to coast in, and not invite unneeded attention. It's almost as if she can't help herself. What's really to gain by centralizing these issues? Democrats already are known to have a more populist position on guns and race than Republicans.
he's always been that guy
he has decades long track record of this behavior
I also dont know what "stronger on foreign relations" you would expect from a guy like Christie. Maybe more of an asshole, but I wouldnt call that a strength
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Post #82 (isolation #9) » Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:40 pm
Postby shaft.ed »
they should be given a living wage sliding for net worth/other income sources. Cover all travel expenses on coach and establish a congressional "dormitory" to cover living expenses for those that want it
Just how high a wage hike Clinton supports, however, remains a mystery. The candidate has not provided a figure yet. Her campaign did not return a request for comment Sunday night.
O'Malley and Sanders have said they support a minimum wage of $15 an hour.
If you go to her website it is just vague promises about raising the wage, nothing concrete... just like her position on... everything. You are fooling yourself if you think that Jeb is any different the Hillary.
yup 'work more you lazy fucks' is exactly the same as 'let's raise the minimum wage 40-50%'
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Post #348 (isolation #19) » Sat Aug 22, 2015 1:12 pm
Postby shaft.ed »
In post 295, MonkeyMan576 wrote:I would say foriegn aid, national defence, social security, and welfare
lets see one of these things is entirely self solvent, another is so small it wouldn't pay for a flying machine, one has been slashed into next to nothingness over the last three decades and the other has grown almost every year since the 50s.
Wonder which would be the most effective place to start?
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Post #604 (isolation #25) » Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:43 am
Postby shaft.ed »
In post 602, Untrod Tripod wrote:it's a pretty insidious (and racially charged) problem that people make the assertion that athletes coast on their physical gifts and don't put in the work to become great
I dont see it as coasting
I see it as a large percentage of the population is just not of the correct body size/shape to ever play certain sports. Granted there are always exceptions, but there are very few 'normal' people in the NBA or NFL
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Post #622 (isolation #26) » Tue Sep 01, 2015 8:49 am
Postby shaft.ed »
In post 621, MonkeyMan576 wrote:There is a balance that can be struck between taking care of the poor and allowing people to keep their hard earned money.
In post 639, shaft.ed wrote:which is why a fraction of a cent financial transaction tax would likely do way more to generate the right money from the right places
Define your idea as it is probably easy to avoid.
Devil is always in the details. Broad statements like "tax the rich!" or "safety net" are not actual effective things to get behind in the current political system. Politicians will always advertise the best part of a bill and make a positive narrative out of it. The national health care system is a great example of this in action.
not that complicated
any financial transaction involving exchange of stocks/bonds/derivaties etc. has a miniscule flat tax added to it (fraction of a cent). This can be ignored by the average person with a personal account (or easily automated by websites handling such things) and would mostly hit pockets of high volume, short holding trading firms. Possible side effect might be slight increase in market stability, but I doubt it.
In post 639, shaft.ed wrote:which is why a fraction of a cent financial transaction tax would likely do way more to generate the right money from the right places
Define your idea as it is probably easy to avoid.
Devil is always in the details. Broad statements like "tax the rich!" or "safety net" are not actual effective things to get behind in the current political system. Politicians will always advertise the best part of a bill and make a positive narrative out of it. The national health care system is a great example of this in action.
not that complicated
any financial transaction involving exchange of stocks/bonds/derivaties etc. has a miniscule flat tax added to it (fraction of a cent). This can be ignored by the average person with a personal account (or easily automated by websites handling such things) and would mostly hit pockets of high volume, short holding trading firms. Possible side effect might be slight increase in market stability, but I doubt it.
Have a International company and simply declare all profit in another country but actually have that profit be generated in US or other countries of choice. Google for example only profited in the single digit thousands in the US last year. There would have to be a ton of law changes to actually get this to apply as intended.
Given that the US already has such a tax, and funds the SEC with it
doesnt seem that complicated
should just be expanded to derivatives and increased in amount
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Post #675 (isolation #31) » Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:54 am
Postby shaft.ed »
I think the higher admin is the problem (depending on the institution)
Their ranks and salaries have been steadily increasing, because how else would we get that talent without paying them
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Post #682 (isolation #32) » Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:38 am
Postby shaft.ed »
I just checked WSU salary info I could find and saw three employees above 500K (circa 2011).
Cool it works for the whole state of Washington. Now I can figure out how much all the people I was working with in Grad School were making. My boss was actually getting paid less than I expected.
Should also point out that profs in the Research sciences fund themselves with grant money nowadays. Salaried tenure is dying out, and I've heard of places offering 0% tenure. While I do think most profs are overpaid to some extent (although hours are insane) its kind of accepted as a reward after paying ones dues as an undercompensated grad student and postdoc all those years. It'd be nice if the money was spread out a little more even though.
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Post #709 (isolation #33) » Fri Sep 04, 2015 1:03 am
Postby shaft.ed »
In post 705, sthar8 wrote:welfare programs should be cut, donations to universities count as charity, football programs aren't sustained by public money. Irresponsible spending is OK as long as you put it on TV.
Or, the same people who can't figure out how progressive tax brackets work also can't figure out what 'subsidy' means.
well the NFL/NBA/MLB etc. leech huge amounts of money from the public, why not the NCAA?
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Post #768 (isolation #35) » Mon Sep 07, 2015 2:08 am
Postby shaft.ed »
In post 714, Cephrir wrote:I'm going to just sit back and imagine a single issue candidate for electoral reform and cast all my dream ballots for their dream self and possibly commit dream voter fraud.
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Post #828 (isolation #41) » Thu Sep 10, 2015 4:35 am
Postby shaft.ed »
In post 826, zoraster wrote:as much as that would play into notions of what the republican primary voter is, i don't think that is even remotely true except perhaps tangentially.
its not exactly his wife, but his brother was already too good to the Mexicans. This one even speaks Spanish