Before I go off half cocked about whether the government should have detained the guy for psychological evaluation or not I'd be interested in hearing what his family and close friends think about it. They'd have a better handle on the situation than me.
Are those really the times you want to go back to?
Yup. Things worked just fine then, certainly better than they are now-a-days. I'll never make enough money to have to pay those top marginal rates and if I did I'd still have plenty of money to work with anyway.
s/Asteroid/Comet/ A large comet could come out of the Oort cloud headed for Earth and give us less than a year of warning. It's not likely we'd be able to handle it with our present space technology.
No more hand waving than your dismissal of Marxism. Marx got the answer wrong but some of his analysis is spot on.
I was idealistic like that when I was young. The world is a messy place and will never conform to his (and I assume your) idealistic vision. Somewhere in the middle is the optimal solution.
You don't think Romney looks down on us?!!! He has never in his life had to mingle with the hoi polloi and is shows in his stiffness at campaign events. I'll bet he's far more comfortable at those $10,000+ a plate campaign fundraising events.
Prove me wrong. You probably read the predictions, ignore the time scales attached to them and think it's all going to happen in the next 10 or 20 years. And I'm not saying all predictions have been conservative, just most of them so you're going to have to show several examples to prove me wrong.
I am well aware of the Holocene Climatic Optimum. The warming that occurred then was considerably more gradual than what is occurring now and the CO2 level then was not elevated to the point where ocean acidification was an issue.
roman_mir's free market idealism is just as unrealistic at Marxism. In the real world ideologies of any kind are rarely an ideal solution. A mixture of some capitalistic principles and some socialistic principles probably produces the best outcomes, in other words somewhere in the space between the two.
In 1957, the Federal Government made, in constant dollars, about $2800 per capita [usgovernmentrevenue.com]. In 2010 it was about $6200
According to several inflation calculators I Googled $2800 in 1957 is equivalent to $21,728 in 2010 in inflation adjusted dollars, 3.5 times your $6200.
Actually Fed Ex and UPS do have their own air traffic controllers at their major hubs. They work in concert with the FAA's controllers but they do the majority of the coordination of arrivals and departures. UPS has around 250 daily flights at its Louisville hub, most arriving and departing between 10:00 PM and 4:00 AM.
The reason the "top income earners" are shouldering a higher share of the budget is because the gap between them and the middle class has widened over the last 30+ years. If the income was spread more evenly as it was when the top marginal rate was over 50% then the middle class would pay more taxes and more than make up for the drop in income of the top earners. There's no point in taxing low income people if you have to turn around and give them food stamps and subsidize their housing.
Jesus said "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." If you lived by His example you would give up your worldly possessions and dedicate your life to helping the less fortunate among us
I suspect in general there is a qualitative difference between government funded research (medical and otherwise) and privately funded research. Privately funded research is more likely to be directed toward shorter term and more immediately profitable goals while government research is more likely directed toward research that may have longer term benefits that eventually trickles down to private research.
Does waste really happen more in government or does the fact that government has to be more publicly open about its failures than private enterprise just leave the perception that it does?
A certain amount of climate change is already irreversible in any human time scale. It's just a question of how bad it will get before we do something.
Several coal terminals have been proposed in Washington and Oregon but none of them are anywhere close to realization yet. There's a lot of opposition to them.
The simple way to tax carbon it not at the emissions end but at the source end, at the minehead, wellhead or import point. Let the costs percolate up the supply chain.
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Before I go off half cocked about whether the government should have detained the guy for psychological evaluation or not I'd be interested in hearing what his family and close friends think about it. They'd have a better handle on the situation than me.
I think the proper spelling in this case would be "gubbmint".
Well, as an ex-Marine he's had better training in wreaking havoc than your average crazy person.
Are those really the times you want to go back to?
Yup. Things worked just fine then, certainly better than they are now-a-days. I'll never make enough money to have to pay those top marginal rates and if I did I'd still have plenty of money to work with anyway.
s/Asteroid/Comet/ A large comet could come out of the Oort cloud headed for Earth and give us less than a year of warning. It's not likely we'd be able to handle it with our present space technology.
No more hand waving than your dismissal of Marxism. Marx got the answer wrong but some of his analysis is spot on.
I was idealistic like that when I was young. The world is a messy place and will never conform to his (and I assume your) idealistic vision. Somewhere in the middle is the optimal solution.
You don't think Romney looks down on us?!!! He has never in his life had to mingle with the hoi polloi and is shows in his stiffness at campaign events. I'll bet he's far more comfortable at those $10,000+ a plate campaign fundraising events.
Me too.
Prove me wrong. You probably read the predictions, ignore the time scales attached to them and think it's all going to happen in the next 10 or 20 years. And I'm not saying all predictions have been conservative, just most of them so you're going to have to show several examples to prove me wrong.
I am well aware of the Holocene Climatic Optimum. The warming that occurred then was considerably more gradual than what is occurring now and the CO2 level then was not elevated to the point where ocean acidification was an issue.
roman_mir's free market idealism is just as unrealistic at Marxism. In the real world ideologies of any kind are rarely an ideal solution. A mixture of some capitalistic principles and some socialistic principles probably produces the best outcomes, in other words somewhere in the space between the two.
In 1957, the Federal Government made, in constant dollars, about $2800 per capita [usgovernmentrevenue.com]. In 2010 it was about $6200
According to several inflation calculators I Googled $2800 in 1957 is equivalent to $21,728 in 2010 in inflation adjusted dollars, 3.5 times your $6200.
Actually Fed Ex and UPS do have their own air traffic controllers at their major hubs. They work in concert with the FAA's controllers but they do the majority of the coordination of arrivals and departures. UPS has around 250 daily flights at its Louisville hub, most arriving and departing between 10:00 PM and 4:00 AM.
Somehow I doubt you started from zero if you had a six figure job before you dropped to $20K.
Are your numbers inflation adjusted?
Tax avoidance often means you invest more in your business and employees, in effect spreading the wealth.
The reason the "top income earners" are shouldering a higher share of the budget is because the gap between them and the middle class has widened over the last 30+ years. If the income was spread more evenly as it was when the top marginal rate was over 50% then the middle class would pay more taxes and more than make up for the drop in income of the top earners. There's no point in taxing low income people if you have to turn around and give them food stamps and subsidize their housing.
Jesus said "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." If you lived by His example you would give up your worldly possessions and dedicate your life to helping the less fortunate among us
I suspect in general there is a qualitative difference between government funded research (medical and otherwise) and privately funded research. Privately funded research is more likely to be directed toward shorter term and more immediately profitable goals while government research is more likely directed toward research that may have longer term benefits that eventually trickles down to private research.
Does waste really happen more in government or does the fact that government has to be more publicly open about its failures than private enterprise just leave the perception that it does?
A certain amount of climate change is already irreversible in any human time scale. It's just a question of how bad it will get before we do something.
In general the effects of global warming has been exceeding predictions.
Shouldn't people pay the true cost of their consumption? Artificially low prices distort the market.
Several coal terminals have been proposed in Washington and Oregon but none of them are anywhere close to realization yet. There's a lot of opposition to them.
The simple way to tax carbon it not at the emissions end but at the source end, at the minehead, wellhead or import point. Let the costs percolate up the supply chain.
One simple definition of pollution is to much of any substance where it is not wanted. In that sense excess CO2 in the atmosphere is a pollutant.
The Earth has already warmed enough to start causing "issues". Eventually it will become obvious even to people like you.