Your argument assumes 100% turnout in past elections. In 2016 there was a relative increase in voter turnout in specific low education groups. Specifically there was an increase in high school and bellow educated turnout in rural communities.
What the Russians were able to do is increase voter turnout among very very uneducated rural voters by spending little cash. The reason why they were able to do it with little cash is that they were able to run politically toxic ads without any blowback to the R party due to the arms length lack of association with the direct R party.
Put any phone side by side at they all look like an iphone, or a galaxy etc etc. The only surefire way to tell the difference and see whom the phone is attached to. If its attendant is a hipster whom is technologically illiterate the phone is an iphone, if its attendant is a neck-beard it is an android. Anyone else its all just shades of grey.
This is an application of an age old conflict strategy. Tricking your enemy into thinking they have found a weakness is a well proven tactic if effort is put in to correctly prepare for the situation.
"which is something that humanities graduates happen to be best trained to do" Citation please
"but the sense of empathy that comes from music, arts, literature and psychology provides a big advantage in design". Citation please
"psychologist is more likely to know how to motivate people and to understand what users want than is an engineer" Psychology isn't a humanities or a liberal art.
"A musician or artist is king in a world in which you can 3D-print anything that you can imagine" Nonsense
No I have not. I am,however, familiar on an amateur level with the oil industry. There are dozens of articles about the boom bust cycle and its associated impact on massive drug use spikes within the field workers.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Cr...
Yes and the rest of us STEM graduates take the business, law, marketing jobs from the poor B.A.'s who cant do jobs in their own studied industry. This is the reason STEM employment peaked at about 1/3 the unemployment rate of BAs.
Yes there are plenty of dumb degrees and people keep studying them. This is a major problem.
Yeah become a welder because for one year you can earn 200k while working 100+ hour work weeks, develop a drug habit nearly required by the insane work schedule, then be unemployed for the next 2 years after the oil boom/bust cycle moves on! Great choice!
I actually do advocate for trades jobs over the burger flipping degrees, but let us not pretend the life of a tradesmen is so rose tinted.
I am glad see that your community may be getting value for their $. But that is not a universal experience. I also imagine mine is not either. Each community should do a realistic check and see if they are getting value. Some communities should expand their library systems, some should reduce their costs. Other "third locations" are a valid alternatives for these communities to consider. 20 mill can be spent to do quite a lot on other things.
My local library in Boston is getting upgraded for a grand total of about 20 million. The library has potential to be of use but the reality is no one uses it. It is an obscene waste of money to spend 20 million to maintain a space most commonly used by a half dozen elderly men to play checkers.
"Then-Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters stated on August 15, 2007, that about 60% of federal gas taxes are used for highway and bridge construction. The remaining 40% goes to earmarked programs.[11] However, revenues from other taxes are also used in federal transportation programs."
The road system is massively under maintained, additionally the initial funding came from a massive amount of federal capital, which still needs to be accounted for.
They have done studies on this, which I cant be bothered to find right now. But long story short you are right it depends on population density. You are wrong about your assumption that current population density does not justify it. The result of the studies I read indicated that essentially the north eastern shore, and the west coast have enough population density to justify a massive interconnected mass transit system.
That is a made up fear as it has not been true so far. Even with the majority of cars being human driven cards, automated cars have a negligible rate of accidents.
What we have here is a group of people like wwphx who either don't realize , or least communicate like they are a member of that 20%. This is a common human problem, where people from tiny subsets pretend like their niche issue impacts the world at large.
"Sales taxes are paid by the customer, not the seller." That is simply propaganda. You have obviously never taken an economics class. In econ 101 somewhere around the 4th week they will discuss who pays a tax. The answer is "it depends on the supply and demand elasticity." The only time a consumer pays the whole tax would be if the consumers' demand is perfectly inelastic, and the producers supply is perfectly elastic. IE never in the history of the world.
For a 10% income tax If a product costs $9.50 to make and can be sold for $10.00 the transaction will occur a profit of $.50 will be generated which can then be taxes for $.05.
For a 10% sales tax. If a product costs $9.50 to make and can be sold for $10.00, the tax will be $1.00 and revenue only $9.00. As such the transaction will not occur
You ask. Cant we just lower the sales tax to %.5? Sure, however, given the large variety of margins generated in the whole of the market, it is impossibly impractical to customize sales taxes so they do not create these market distortions.
Purely looking at market dynamics, all sales taxes should be abolished and replaced by income taxes. It would increase market efficiency substantially.
The question is "will the merger bring more competition." This is one of the areas where there valid debate. Generally fewer players = less competition, but in the case that you have two market dominators and two minor market participants, the merger of the two minor market participants to create a third market dominator class organization, the answer is more ambiguous and would require a real in depth analysis to come up with a reasonable conclusion.
Palantir is proof that any one who was "shocked" by what Snowden etc "revealed" are idiots and/or uninformed. Planitir was around for years before the leakers and they were very very public about telling the world that this kind of data mining was ubiquitous. We never needed the drama queens to spill the beans, any of the concept we're public for a long time. All they did was reveal some details which compromised some poor field agents and got them killed.
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Your argument assumes 100% turnout in past elections. In 2016 there was a relative increase in voter turnout in specific low education groups. Specifically there was an increase in high school and bellow educated turnout in rural communities.
What the Russians were able to do is increase voter turnout among very very uneducated rural voters by spending little cash. The reason why they were able to do it with little cash is that they were able to run politically toxic ads without any blowback to the R party due to the arms length lack of association with the direct R party.
So either use would be correct. "The deer is" and "The deer are" would both be valid, but have different meanings.
Put any phone side by side at they all look like an iphone, or a galaxy etc etc. The only surefire way to tell the difference and see whom the phone is attached to. If its attendant is a hipster whom is technologically illiterate the phone is an iphone, if its attendant is a neck-beard it is an android. Anyone else its all just shades of grey.
This is an application of an age old conflict strategy. Tricking your enemy into thinking they have found a weakness is a well proven tactic if effort is put in to correctly prepare for the situation.
"you'll note that engineers are heavily overrepresented there" No I will not. Do you have a citation please? Your humanities are showing.
"which is something that humanities graduates happen to be best trained to do" Citation please
"but the sense of empathy that comes from music, arts, literature and psychology provides a big advantage in design". Citation please
"psychologist is more likely to know how to motivate people and to understand what users want than is an engineer" Psychology isn't a humanities or a liberal art.
"A musician or artist is king in a world in which you can 3D-print anything that you can imagine" Nonsense
https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/
"Detailed Breakdown $627.4B Outflows " "$713.4B Inflows"
Go make up numbers elsewhere, we can actually do math and quote sources here (for the most part).
No I have not. I am ,however, familiar on an amateur level with the oil industry. There are dozens of articles about the boom bust cycle and its associated impact on massive drug use spikes within the field workers.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Cr...
Yes there are plenty of dumb degrees and people keep studying them. This is a major problem.
Yeah become a welder because for one year you can earn 200k while working 100+ hour work weeks, develop a drug habit nearly required by the insane work schedule, then be unemployed for the next 2 years after the oil boom/bust cycle moves on! Great choice!
I actually do advocate for trades jobs over the burger flipping degrees, but let us not pretend the life of a tradesmen is so rose tinted.
OR OMG People drive/pass by them on a regular basis, and can *gasp* see inside them to due the new fangled device called *glass*
I am glad see that your community may be getting value for their $. But that is not a universal experience. I also imagine mine is not either. Each community should do a realistic check and see if they are getting value. Some communities should expand their library systems, some should reduce their costs. Other "third locations" are a valid alternatives for these communities to consider. 20 mill can be spent to do quite a lot on other things.
I live in Boston, so I will use that as a reference
https://budget.boston.gov/capital-projects/boston-public-library/
https://boston.curbed.com/boston-development/2017/10/23/16516694/dudley-library-branch-boston-renovation
My local library in Boston is getting upgraded for a grand total of about 20 million. The library has potential to be of use but the reality is no one uses it. It is an obscene waste of money to spend 20 million to maintain a space most commonly used by a half dozen elderly men to play checkers.
The road system is massively under maintained, additionally the initial funding came from a massive amount of federal capital, which still needs to be accounted for.
Actually throttling all video is still a violation of NN concepts.
They have done studies on this, which I cant be bothered to find right now. But long story short you are right it depends on population density. You are wrong about your assumption that current population density does not justify it. The result of the studies I read indicated that essentially the north eastern shore, and the west coast have enough population density to justify a massive interconnected mass transit system.
Cars are a even more subsidized transit system.
Ive gotten by just fine in NYC, Boston, LA, Chicago, and Charlotte without a car.
That is a made up fear as it has not been true so far. Even with the majority of cars being human driven cards, automated cars have a negligible rate of accidents.
What we have here is a group of people like wwphx who either don't realize , or least communicate like they are a member of that 20%. This is a common human problem, where people from tiny subsets pretend like their niche issue impacts the world at large.
"Sales taxes are paid by the customer, not the seller." That is simply propaganda. You have obviously never taken an economics class. In econ 101 somewhere around the 4th week they will discuss who pays a tax. The answer is "it depends on the supply and demand elasticity." The only time a consumer pays the whole tax would be if the consumers' demand is perfectly inelastic, and the producers supply is perfectly elastic. IE never in the history of the world.
Sales taxes distort markets, income taxes do not.
For a 10% income tax If a product costs $9.50 to make and can be sold for $10.00 the transaction will occur a profit of $.50 will be generated which can then be taxes for $.05.
For a 10% sales tax. If a product costs $9.50 to make and can be sold for $10.00, the tax will be $1.00 and revenue only $9.00. As such the transaction will not occur
You ask. Cant we just lower the sales tax to %.5? Sure, however, given the large variety of margins generated in the whole of the market, it is impossibly impractical to customize sales taxes so they do not create these market distortions.
Purely looking at market dynamics, all sales taxes should be abolished and replaced by income taxes. It would increase market efficiency substantially.
The question is "will the merger bring more competition." This is one of the areas where there valid debate. Generally fewer players = less competition, but in the case that you have two market dominators and two minor market participants, the merger of the two minor market participants to create a third market dominator class organization, the answer is more ambiguous and would require a real in depth analysis to come up with a reasonable conclusion.
Palantir is proof that any one who was "shocked" by what Snowden etc "revealed" are idiots and/or uninformed. Planitir was around for years before the leakers and they were very very public about telling the world that this kind of data mining was ubiquitous. We never needed the drama queens to spill the beans, any of the concept we're public for a long time. All they did was reveal some details which compromised some poor field agents and got them killed.
How silly of them.