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Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up
Hugh Pickens writes "Wisconsin Republicans claim that no one else can republish a video of United States Representative Sean Duffy (R-WI) complaining about how he is 'struggling' to get by on his $174,000 salary without their permission, even though they originally released the video on YouTube for the whole world to see. Now the GOP is trying to take legal action to stop anyone else from republishing the video. The tape caused a stir for Duffy, a first-term conservative best known for his past as a reality TV show star on MTV's The Real World after Democrats flagged the comments about his taxpayer-funded salary, which is nearly three times the median income in Wisconsin, and criticisms began to flow Duffy's way. Here's a one-minute clip, excerpted from roughly 45 minutes of video of the public Duffy townhall, that the Polk County GOP doesn't want anyone to see."
Nope. Copyright still belongs to the person who made the recording. (The Zapruder film, for instance, which showed the assassination of President Kennedy is owned by the Zapruder family.) However, there is a pretty good case for fair use in this case, especially since this Duffy video is being used for news reporting/commentary purposes.
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When the Democrats do something stupid, it's because it's expected from the diverse, working class roots they largely come from.
When the Republicans do something stupid, they deny it happened at all and is a liberal conspiracy.
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Well, it allowed me to keep my daughter on my (from work) health insurance even though she's graduated high school... So, I'm in favor.
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Let's just drop that old saw right now. Taxing them more heavily isn't going to FIX anything and it'll actually make things worse.
Agreed. Why, if GE would've had to pay even a dime of federal taxes this year, the repercussions would've been dire for us all. Dire, I tell you!
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...as it has done for the past decade, as it was in my employer's case.
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I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
no your insurance premiums went up because your insurance company is ran by greedy assholes.
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I know my rates were going up and coverage was getting going down long before Obama took office. In fact it nearly doubled about 5 years ago.
Do you actually believe that if it were repealed immediately your premiums would drop by 20%?
Not a chance, your coverage would drop to previous levels, but your premiums certainly wouldn't go down.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
Yes. Tax rates from 1900 to date is one dataset. GDP during the same period is another dataset. Employment rates are a third.
Those are my sources. Both are extremely easy to find. You will notice a slight lag of GDP behind the changes in tax law, because GDP is responding to those changes in tax law.
I'll let you overlay the graphs yourself, because if I send you to the place where someone has done the work for you, you will say "Oh, those graphs were made by liberals as a way of disregarding the data. If you do it yourself, you won't be able to claim that it's invalid because of the ideology of the economist who put them together. But try it. It works as I describe.
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