People with average competence still deserve to earn to earn a living. They may not be able to demand a 40% pay increase, but making ends meet isn't unexpected.
The only reason I get to decide how much I get payed is that I work in an industry with a real unemployment rate around 4%, I am lucky enough to have high quality skills, intelligence, and the work experience to show I am worth the investment.
Most people don't work in that kind of field, and most people have more or less average competence, and many of them lack experience that demonstrates their capabilities. I am lucky as hell to be able to act participate equally in the job market. Most people have no such luxury and are struggling just to make ends meet, accepting less than they are worth, and then working twice as much just hoping to hold on and keep their family off the street.
That is only true in an ignorantly simple approximation of the market, assuming all players are fully informed, without deception, fully rational and possess roughly equivalent negotiating power. That approximation is about as far from reality as you can get for the low end job market.
Capital gains tax in the US is functionally the same as income tax, at a lower rate.
And no, increases in the tax rate of capital gains does NOT at all hinder the economy.
In fact the only tax cut PROVEN to stimulate economy is the corporate tax rate.
All other data points to most other tax cuts having no effect or a negative effect on the economy with the exception of taxes near or below the poverty level.
The feds are the last line of defense of your rights against the tyranny of the state government. The feds are the first line of defense against conquest by foreign powers. The feds are the only organization powerful enough to defend against the predations of for profit multinational corporations.
I am an American, not someone born in Montana, who grew up in Mississippi or lives in Florida. I am an American first and foremost.
We are currently facing a soil quality and agricultural water source crisis, using farmed plants to supplement our fuel source is not a sustainable process.
Obviously it helps the greenhouse problem by killing off the dirty masses of the poors. Without them exhaling CO2, the air will be clean and pure for his fellow plutocrats.
I have met dozens of Tea Partiers, comes with the territory of being a libertarian (though one with a non-standard economic and social viewpoint), and they do all express the same level of complete idiocy and ignorance. None of them have been remotely rational or competent.
Fundamentalism requires a component of arbitrary faith. All fundamentalists are religious, even if the thing they hold sacred and believe empowers them isn't a traditional god as such.
Some moral judgments can be based on objective reality and rationality. There can be an objective morality. It is just that it is vastly more limited than what people normally consider morality.
Rape is objectively immoral. Murder, but not necessarily killing, is objectively immoral. etc
Heroin was actually a very effective medical painkiller with a low level of lethality, after it was outlawed it was replaced by things like morphine that were far more dangerous.
Pure c1ommunism has no more answers that pure capitalism.
The ideal is somewhere between. Where capitalism reigns for all luxury goods and services, but the basic necessities are made available by the state, either directly as the case for utilities and healthcare should be, or indirectly with a non means tested basic income system that provides enough income to every household for a meager subsistence.
Exactly, its a shitty handout to the insurance industry. Government mandated spending on for profit industry. A right wing corporatist bill through and through.
What we really needed is nationalized single payer healthcare. But right wing Obama and his conservative democrats bowed down before the crazy wing tea party leadership and their regressive republicans.
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People with average competence still deserve to earn to earn a living. They may not be able to demand a 40% pay increase, but making ends meet isn't unexpected.
The only reason I get to decide how much I get payed is that I work in an industry with a real unemployment rate around 4%, I am lucky enough to have high quality skills, intelligence, and the work experience to show I am worth the investment.
Most people don't work in that kind of field, and most people have more or less average competence, and many of them lack experience that demonstrates their capabilities. I am lucky as hell to be able to act participate equally in the job market. Most people have no such luxury and are struggling just to make ends meet, accepting less than they are worth, and then working twice as much just hoping to hold on and keep their family off the street.
That is only true in an ignorantly simple approximation of the market, assuming all players are fully informed, without deception, fully rational and possess roughly equivalent negotiating power. That approximation is about as far from reality as you can get for the low end job market.
Capital gains tax in the US is functionally the same as income tax, at a lower rate.
And no, increases in the tax rate of capital gains does NOT at all hinder the economy.
In fact the only tax cut PROVEN to stimulate economy is the corporate tax rate.
All other data points to most other tax cuts having no effect or a negative effect on the economy with the exception of taxes near or below the poverty level.
Almost everything washes out in bright light.
The feds are the last line of defense of your rights against the tyranny of the state government. The feds are the first line of defense against conquest by foreign powers. The feds are the only organization powerful enough to defend against the predations of for profit multinational corporations.
I am an American, not someone born in Montana, who grew up in Mississippi or lives in Florida. I am an American first and foremost.
Yes, I know that for something to be objective, it means there is factual evidence/proof.
And such evidence/proof exists for the universal harm caused by rape and murder.
More or less correct, or like the "invisible hand of the free market"
We are currently facing a soil quality and agricultural water source crisis, using farmed plants to supplement our fuel source is not a sustainable process.
Obviously it helps the greenhouse problem by killing off the dirty masses of the poors. Without them exhaling CO2, the air will be clean and pure for his fellow plutocrats.
I have met dozens of Tea Partiers, comes with the territory of being a libertarian (though one with a non-standard economic and social viewpoint), and they do all express the same level of complete idiocy and ignorance. None of them have been remotely rational or competent.
Fundamentalism requires a component of arbitrary faith. All fundamentalists are religious, even if the thing they hold sacred and believe empowers them isn't a traditional god as such.
Some moral judgments can be based on objective reality and rationality. There can be an objective morality. It is just that it is vastly more limited than what people normally consider morality.
Rape is objectively immoral.
Murder, but not necessarily killing, is objectively immoral.
etc
Incorrect. All religions may be equally valid... all equally completely invalid.
But some cultures are more valid than others.
That button is called "call my parent"
If your 4 year old is extremely mature, you can also have a "call 911" button.
That is all.
In humans the most common such parasite is the memetic complex called religion.
If I am not going to correct c1ommunism, i am not likely to fix that.
Heroin was actually a very effective medical painkiller with a low level of lethality, after it was outlawed it was replaced by things like morphine that were far more dangerous.
Heroin is actually LESS addictive than nicotine.
Pure c1ommunism has no more answers that pure capitalism.
The ideal is somewhere between. Where capitalism reigns for all luxury goods and services, but the basic necessities are made available by the state, either directly as the case for utilities and healthcare should be, or indirectly with a non means tested basic income system that provides enough income to every household for a meager subsistence.
Pretty sure she gets her girlfriend to make the sandwiches, like any proper techie.
Exactly, its a shitty handout to the insurance industry. Government mandated spending on for profit industry. A right wing corporatist bill through and through.
What we really needed is nationalized single payer healthcare. But right wing Obama and his conservative democrats bowed down before the crazy wing tea party leadership and their regressive republicans.
Oh, I use a mouse and keyboard for shooters, but of all the controllers i have used, the PS3 one has been the best.
Ugh, cant they use a PS2/PS3 like controller?
Its the best design i've come across. Great button configuration.
This is NOT a new thing. Malware has been reprogramming video cards since the 80's