Not if the 1% doesn't get to keep it because the government takes it away in taxes and gives it to the bottom 12% who don't pay anything. It's called "income redistribution" and it's considered "fair."
I think that's what the article is trying to point out. Take this statistic FTFA as an example.
In America, for example, in 1987 the top 1% of taxpayers received 12.3% of all pre-tax income. Twenty years later their share, at 23.5%, was nearly twice as large. The bottom half’s share fell from 15.6% to 12.2% over the same period.
Who cares about pre-tax, the important question is "what about post-tax income on those groups?"
Gross pay isn't what you put in the bank or pay your bills with, it's Net that's important.
And since by then southern Canada will have the climate of present-day Iowa or Missouri or Arkansas (take your pick, north to south) you'll be coming out ahead anyway.
I know my life won't be complete until my smartphone can grate cheese, do my laundry, and change my car's oil. Who needs a phone that can only make phone calls?
Expand the worker visa program, require some minimal English competency (different levels for different jobs), and crack down on any company or individual that hires a foreign citizen without a work visa. Also, require companies to report how many foreign workers they hire, and report exactly what their wages and taxes are, subject to the fair wage laws. If a foreign worker takes a job for less than minimum wage, or takes a job knowing that their employer is violating the law, should be deported and have their visa revoked for a time. If someone knowingly uses false visas to get work, deport them and never allow them back. As you say, fine and imprison the ones who break the law by hiring outside the law.
This would not affect the criminal drug runners, but it would affect the human traffickers. Unfortunately it would also cause quite a bit of inflation, as the increased cost of labor would have to be factored into products, but the local state and federal governments would be making more in tax revenues from that labor, which would help with the deficits. By requiring companies to follow OSHA and other safety regulations for the foreign workers, there would be less likelihood of illegals needing hospitalization and emergency room treatment.
Make "anchor babies" illegal, by clarifying Amendment 14 Section 1, such that persons born in the US of non-citizens are not automatically citizens. The "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" part can be used to justify this, since the citizen of a foreign country is subject to their jurisdiction. There is precedent for this, since any child of foreign ambassadors is not automatically US citizens, even if they're born in a US hospital, because they're not subject to the jurisdiction of the US or the state where the child is born.
Of course, the political will to do things like these is not there, at least not right now.
But can we have both a colder arctic and more ice, and yet have an ice-free arctic with no permafrost at the same time? Why would the mechanism for a colder arctic also lead to a warmer arctic? I keep seeing people saying that increased humidity in the air flowing to the arctic will cause increased snowfall which won't melt and which will cause the next ice age, and yet the same people say that the warmer air is melting the permafrost and will make the arctic ice-free in summer. And, if the colder arctic model is correct, isn't that just a return to the status quo ante? What difference does it make if the arctic is back to being arctic, and a new ice age is begun, even if the "global" temperature is higher?
Aw, heck with it, I'm going to start up a cruise line that will sail the ice-free Northwest Passage in the summer, so tourists can ogle the mile-thick Canadian and Siberian ice sheets of the new Ice Age. Of course the ships will cruise between the ice-free Greenland to the ice-free North Slope. Anyone interested in investing? We're sure to make a fortune!
Most predictions I've seen stop at the end of the 21st century. It's uncommon to see climate predictions past 2100. This is the case firstly because the predictions will be less accurate the farther out the are, and because we simply don't need to make predictions past 2100 to know that we should reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly.
Astounding. So, the models can't accurately predict the short-term climate, and they can't accurately predict the long-term climate, so we're supposed to accept that there's this magic time period over which they are accurate?
But how can the ice form and last through the summer, when the summers are too warm for ice to form and last now? Especially in Canada and SIberia, where the Atlantic current doesn't flow? If it's too warm for ice to last from season to season, then glaciers can't grow, and so an "ice age" can't happen.
Which is supposedly offset by the warmer air, which is causing all permafrost in the Arctic to melt, or at least the Canadian, Siberian, and Alaskan Arctic. Since the Atlantic currents are going to shut down, and stop "sending equatorial warmth", does that mean the glaciers will stop retreating?
It's better in the long term for the country to have rational debate at election time.
Kinda hard to do that when one side is constantly calling the other "racist homophobic brain-dead knuckle-dragging toothless inbred fascist wannabes" at even the slightest political disagreement. "Bipartisan" means "Do it our way, you hate-filled fascist racist pigs!"
Well of course you do because you're both closed-minded, left wing Marxists. What a couple of snots - oh, I forgot - it's./, home of the snots.
You don't have to be left-wing to find Palin to be an idiot.
Seems to be the prevailing characteristic. The other one seems to be only being able to insult people you have political disagreements with, completely unable to discuss differences like adults. Yeah, yeah, of course the kindergarten playground excuse will come out, "They started it!" Demagoguery, hatred and fearmongering, the tools of the modern "progressive".
Europeans do compressed cities just fine, and since you're in DC, i'll say that Ballston and Courthouse are a really good example of high density living.
Yeah, paying for all kids to go to college could very well be just like printing diplomas and mailing them to everyone. Especially with the political correctness going around. Luckily though, colleges still fail students... but if the government starts dumping cash into colleges you better believe the college will get the most money out of it (ie: they will make it easy for kids to stick through the whole ordeal.)
Um, the government already is dumping cash into colleges, via Sallie Mae and others. Weaker secondary education is helping, too, by making it harder for students to finish in 4 years, so that students have to pay for more years. I knew we were in trouble when, just before I graduated in '84, my university instituted "000" level math and English classes, for freshmen who were illiterate and innumerate.
Only Fiat money today, but next year it will be shooting projectiles the size of Volkswagens!
Yes I know what you mean, I agree it's depressing but it was time for a silly car analogy.
Bad car analogies are like... um...
...
Buy the new Fiat Lux! It's a car, and a dishwashing detergent!
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Not if the 1% doesn't get to keep it because the government takes it away in taxes and gives it to the bottom 12% who don't pay anything. It's called "income redistribution" and it's considered "fair."
I think that's what the article is trying to point out. Take this statistic FTFA as an example.
In America, for example, in 1987 the top 1% of taxpayers received 12.3% of all pre-tax income. Twenty years later their share, at 23.5%, was nearly twice as large. The bottom half’s share fell from 15.6% to 12.2% over the same period.
Who cares about pre-tax, the important question is "what about post-tax income on those groups?" Gross pay isn't what you put in the bank or pay your bills with, it's Net that's important.
I prefer being lazy and shiftless...
Nobody expects the random inquisition. Our chief weapon is surprise. Surprise and fear, fear and surprise...
Statistically, that's just mean, Norm.
And since by then southern Canada will have the climate of present-day Iowa or Missouri or Arkansas (take your pick, north to south) you'll be coming out ahead anyway.
I know my life won't be complete until my smartphone can grate cheese, do my laundry, and change my car's oil. Who needs a phone that can only make phone calls?
Expand the worker visa program, require some minimal English competency (different levels for different jobs), and crack down on any company or individual that hires a foreign citizen without a work visa. Also, require companies to report how many foreign workers they hire, and report exactly what their wages and taxes are, subject to the fair wage laws. If a foreign worker takes a job for less than minimum wage, or takes a job knowing that their employer is violating the law, should be deported and have their visa revoked for a time. If someone knowingly uses false visas to get work, deport them and never allow them back. As you say, fine and imprison the ones who break the law by hiring outside the law.
This would not affect the criminal drug runners, but it would affect the human traffickers. Unfortunately it would also cause quite a bit of inflation, as the increased cost of labor would have to be factored into products, but the local state and federal governments would be making more in tax revenues from that labor, which would help with the deficits. By requiring companies to follow OSHA and other safety regulations for the foreign workers, there would be less likelihood of illegals needing hospitalization and emergency room treatment.
Make "anchor babies" illegal, by clarifying Amendment 14 Section 1, such that persons born in the US of non-citizens are not automatically citizens. The "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" part can be used to justify this, since the citizen of a foreign country is subject to their jurisdiction. There is precedent for this, since any child of foreign ambassadors is not automatically US citizens, even if they're born in a US hospital, because they're not subject to the jurisdiction of the US or the state where the child is born.
Of course, the political will to do things like these is not there, at least not right now.
But can we have both a colder arctic and more ice, and yet have an ice-free arctic with no permafrost at the same time? Why would the mechanism for a colder arctic also lead to a warmer arctic? I keep seeing people saying that increased humidity in the air flowing to the arctic will cause increased snowfall which won't melt and which will cause the next ice age, and yet the same people say that the warmer air is melting the permafrost and will make the arctic ice-free in summer. And, if the colder arctic model is correct, isn't that just a return to the status quo ante? What difference does it make if the arctic is back to being arctic, and a new ice age is begun, even if the "global" temperature is higher?
Aw, heck with it, I'm going to start up a cruise line that will sail the ice-free Northwest Passage in the summer, so tourists can ogle the mile-thick Canadian and Siberian ice sheets of the new Ice Age. Of course the ships will cruise between the ice-free Greenland to the ice-free North Slope. Anyone interested in investing? We're sure to make a fortune!
Most predictions I've seen stop at the end of the 21st century. It's uncommon to see climate predictions past 2100. This is the case firstly because the predictions will be less accurate the farther out the are, and because we simply don't need to make predictions past 2100 to know that we should reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly.
Astounding. So, the models can't accurately predict the short-term climate, and they can't accurately predict the long-term climate, so we're supposed to accept that there's this magic time period over which they are accurate?
But how can the ice form and last through the summer, when the summers are too warm for ice to form and last now? Especially in Canada and SIberia, where the Atlantic current doesn't flow? If it's too warm for ice to last from season to season, then glaciers can't grow, and so an "ice age" can't happen.
Especially effective is the squad of armed marketers holding guns to peoples' heads to make them buy.
Which is supposedly offset by the warmer air, which is causing all permafrost in the Arctic to melt, or at least the Canadian, Siberian, and Alaskan Arctic. Since the Atlantic currents are going to shut down, and stop "sending equatorial warmth", does that mean the glaciers will stop retreating?
And they screamed out "Look at the standard deviation!"
Aw, that's just mean...
SIr, I know stuff. I worked with stuff. Stuff was a friend of mine. And sir, you are no stuff...
I'd say either the net is already forked, or we are...
It's better in the long term for the country to have rational debate at election time.
Kinda hard to do that when one side is constantly calling the other "racist homophobic brain-dead knuckle-dragging toothless inbred fascist wannabes" at even the slightest political disagreement. "Bipartisan" means "Do it our way, you hate-filled fascist racist pigs!"
Why not? We let non-citizens vote now...
However i do agree with every else you said.
Well of course you do because you're both closed-minded, left wing Marxists. What a couple of snots - oh, I forgot - it's ./, home of the snots.
You don't have to be left-wing to find Palin to be an idiot.
Seems to be the prevailing characteristic. The other one seems to be only being able to insult people you have political disagreements with, completely unable to discuss differences like adults. Yeah, yeah, of course the kindergarten playground excuse will come out, "They started it!" Demagoguery, hatred and fearmongering, the tools of the modern "progressive".
I remember the old Winchester drives, that got 40 MEGAbytes of storage by using two 20 Megabyte platters...
Europeans do compressed cities just fine, and since you're in DC, i'll say that Ballston and Courthouse are a really good example of high density living.
If you can afford it, yeah.
Fearing forking is so pre spork and github.
That's... not even English anymore...
Yeah, paying for all kids to go to college could very well be just like printing diplomas and mailing them to everyone. Especially with the political correctness going around. Luckily though, colleges still fail students... but if the government starts dumping cash into colleges you better believe the college will get the most money out of it (ie: they will make it easy for kids to stick through the whole ordeal.)
Um, the government already is dumping cash into colleges, via Sallie Mae and others. Weaker secondary education is helping, too, by making it harder for students to finish in 4 years, so that students have to pay for more years. I knew we were in trouble when, just before I graduated in '84, my university instituted "000" level math and English classes, for freshmen who were illiterate and innumerate.
Only Fiat money today, but next year it will be shooting projectiles the size of Volkswagens! Yes I know what you mean, I agree it's depressing but it was time for a silly car analogy.
Bad car analogies are like... um...
...
Buy the new Fiat Lux! It's a car, and a dishwashing detergent!
That word "most" is dispensable here. You in the US spend more on military than the rest of the world combined.
Not to worry, we probably also spend more on pizza than the rest of the world combined...
So, it's no different than now, with the scope-n-grope?