Dave Johnson is not an economist, he is a left wing activist.
It's ludicrous to think that happens.
So why not tax companies at 50%? At 100%? At 200%?
I've turned down a 20% pay raise because the new companies insurance would eat every penny and then some, pre-ACA.
Thereby illustrating my point: if an employer provides you healthcare, they pay you less to make up for it.
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Odd how that leaves out how government was responsible for the robber barons and the creation of huge monopolies; how progressives were responsible for segregation, eugenics, and forced sterilizations; how American Democrats and progressives sympathized with European fascists; how government intervention deepened and prolonged the great recession; how progressives dragged the US into two world wars against the will of the people. So, yeah, educate yourself.
Drugs do not add anything to your mental capacity. Anything you do under the influence is something you could have done anyway without it, as long as you did not let your own personal demons get in the way.
I don't care what you do, but I do care that people who are young and impressionable believe that type of nonsense. If you are one of the extremely rare who remains a "normal" productive citizen while on drugs good for you. Most aren't.
You need to educate yourself instead of misrepresenting your prejudices and confabulations as fact.
It seems unlikely that they'd try to do any of that (let alone succeed).
You are terribly naive. Google and Facebook have killed lots of other formerly widespread protocols and replaced them with proprietary services and protocols that they can monetize. Of course they are trying to do the same for RSS.
Google supported the Democrats, Hillary Clinton, the regulatory state, and in particular, regulation of other companies and industries. They've made their political bed over the last decade, now let them lie in it. If the EU determines that Google has behaved anti-competitively, well, then Google has behaved anti-competitively and should pay the fines.
Thanks for so clearly expressing the attitude progressives have towards the poor, while simultaneously arguing that economic outcomes are just a matter of class and luck. It's jerks like you that made me leave the Democratic party.
The food stamp program says that poor people are too stupid to budget for themselves, while at the same time creating massive bureaucratic overhead and supporting fraud. How about we simply get rid of it and replace it with simple cash benefits, like most other civilized nations do?
You’re in full control of what’s in your feed and what isn’t, so you don’t get friends and colleagues throwing links into your feeds that you’ve got no interest in reading.
Facebook, Twitter, and Google don't want you to be in control and will likely be doing everything in their power to try to kill RSS.
I expect that they will sooner or later force web sites to make a choice between providing RSS feeds and being features on their sites. I also expect that those companies will try to portray direct reading of RSS feeds as being unsafe and exposing the reader to "fake news". Maybe they can even figure out legislation to make the provision and use of RSS feeds legally risky.
So, don't expect to be able to get RSS feeds for much longer: they are too democratic and too liberal (in the classical sense of "democratic" and "liberal").
And that's your opinion. Other people disagree strongly with that opinion. There are known issues with placing it on the rear
There are "known issues" with placing it anywhere; we call that a "tradeoff".
Android got rid of the home button a while ago, placed the fingerprint sensor on the back, and has given people a variety of additional biometric identification options (face, voice, etc.) and context options (device nearby, network nearby, location, etc.).
iPhone is getting rid of the home button now, removing the fingerprint sensor altogether, and gives people face unlock.
Apple is simply following the same path as Android in terms of getting rid of physical buttons. Like Google, Apple discovered that there was no place for the fingerprint sensor in front, but unlike Google, Apple just dumped the fingerprint sensor instead of placing it in back, leaving Apple users with just face identification for biometrics. Now line up your camera and smile.
I'm telling you from firsthand experience, the rear fingerprint sensor on some Androids suck. The front facing ones are better.
I seriously doubt you use both iPhone and Android on a daily basis. In any case, it's not the choice you get anyway. Apple is simply following Google's design lead, just a couple of years late. Unlike Android phones, it looks like the iPhone will end up with only face unlock and no fingerprint sensor at all.
You don't see companies unilaterally return money on lower taxed items and they don't unilaterally increase prices on higher taxed items.
How do you know "you don't see" that?
And theoretically making companies all pay for health insurance should be a wash, but it definitely is not. It varies significantly from company to company.
"It varies"? What exactly "varies"?
That's just a convenient fiction for a certain type of man.
Well, you leave me with no doubt as to what "type of man" you are: an economically illiterate nincompoop.
The Post points out gently that "not everyone believes" in the need to "transform" high schools
So we have one Democratic billionaire corporate master (Bezos) criticizing another Democratic billionaire corporate master (Jobs) over how to spend tax dollars on education. This is the vision Democrats have for America: propaganda, corporatism, and government by elites and billionaires.
What these pricks are united in is in denying Americans the right to make their own choices for how their kids are educated with the tax dollars their parents have spent.
Everybody is opposed to crony capitalism. The question is whose actions actually promote it, and progressives and Democrats are at the top of the list there. Many Republicans in practice do as well. But for progressives and Democrats promoting crony capitalism is an essential part of the policies they espouse, even while at the same time they claim to oppose it.
I'd like to see links to these progressives wanting Houston - that's suffered what, it third 500 year flood in three years - to rebuild in areas that have been wiped out. Areas that mostly affect poor residents.
Progressives and Democrats usually do things that look good cosmetically ("help poor residents") while promoting crony-capitalist policies that cause these problems in the long run (support and subsidize NFIP).
My premise isn't a pissing contest between Android and iPhone, my premise is that putting the fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone is a good design decision.
We're talking about costs going up for Google and Amazon.
Well, that would violate equal protection, but maybe Europeans don't care about that. In any case, so what? What does that have to do with what we were discussing?
Whatever potential labor savings this decision would yield, would cost them more in terms of lost sales from people opposed to child labor.
More importantly, parents are generally only going to let their children engage in child labor if it is in the interest of the children; that is, if they are so poor that child labor is preferable to other options.
Oh, I see, you're Dutch, that explains your latent fascism. A shame you haven't learned from your history. I'm just putting it out there for all Dutch citizens on this thread.
Which is why governments can step in with subsidies, minimum and maximum price levels, tariffs and other protectionist measures.
They can, and consumers end up paying the price for it.
There is no such thing as a free market, by the way. Theoretically such a thing contains an infinite number of sellers, an infinite number of buyers and no regulations whatsoever.
A free market is simply one in which any two people can engage in voluntary business transactions according to conditions that they choose. Free markets don't require an infinite number of buyers or sellers. They do require absence of regulations. Free markets are widespread.
So don't come and tell me you believe in letting the market decide when, for instance, you dislike the notion of child labour or slavery
Slavery is a creation of government; it can't exist in a free market.
So regulating things or making decisions about how a society should function and distribute it's wealth, freedom and safety is not exactly a gateway drug to balls to the wall Stalinism.
That's exactly what it is.
The minute you decide to impart any kind of moral or regulation on a trade, the market is not free. The minute you have a skewed market (towards monopsony or monopoly), it's not free.
Correct: people like you want crony capitalism, slavery, and property theft. You are reprehensible.
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Dave Johnson is not an economist, he is a left wing activist.
So why not tax companies at 50%? At 100%? At 200%?
Thereby illustrating my point: if an employer provides you healthcare, they pay you less to make up for it.
Odd how that leaves out how government was responsible for the robber barons and the creation of huge monopolies; how progressives were responsible for segregation, eugenics, and forced sterilizations; how American Democrats and progressives sympathized with European fascists; how government intervention deepened and prolonged the great recession; how progressives dragged the US into two world wars against the will of the people. So, yeah, educate yourself.
Citation needed.
Citation needed.
You need to educate yourself instead of misrepresenting your prejudices and confabulations as fact.
You are terribly naive. Google and Facebook have killed lots of other formerly widespread protocols and replaced them with proprietary services and protocols that they can monetize. Of course they are trying to do the same for RSS.
You've seen differential responses to taxes / cost increases; it's your interpretation that's ludicrous.
Well, your nick says it all: "UnknowingFool".
I didn't explicitly call you a "progressive". You may well be some other variety of elitist and totalitarian.
Google supported the Democrats, Hillary Clinton, the regulatory state, and in particular, regulation of other companies and industries. They've made their political bed over the last decade, now let them lie in it. If the EU determines that Google has behaved anti-competitively, well, then Google has behaved anti-competitively and should pay the fines.
Thanks for so clearly expressing the attitude progressives have towards the poor, while simultaneously arguing that economic outcomes are just a matter of class and luck. It's jerks like you that made me leave the Democratic party.
The food stamp program says that poor people are too stupid to budget for themselves, while at the same time creating massive bureaucratic overhead and supporting fraud. How about we simply get rid of it and replace it with simple cash benefits, like most other civilized nations do?
Facebook, Twitter, and Google don't want you to be in control and will likely be doing everything in their power to try to kill RSS.
I expect that they will sooner or later force web sites to make a choice between providing RSS feeds and being features on their sites. I also expect that those companies will try to portray direct reading of RSS feeds as being unsafe and exposing the reader to "fake news". Maybe they can even figure out legislation to make the provision and use of RSS feeds legally risky.
So, don't expect to be able to get RSS feeds for much longer: they are too democratic and too liberal (in the classical sense of "democratic" and "liberal").
There are "known issues" with placing it anywhere; we call that a "tradeoff".
Android got rid of the home button a while ago, placed the fingerprint sensor on the back, and has given people a variety of additional biometric identification options (face, voice, etc.) and context options (device nearby, network nearby, location, etc.).
iPhone is getting rid of the home button now, removing the fingerprint sensor altogether, and gives people face unlock.
Apple is simply following the same path as Android in terms of getting rid of physical buttons. Like Google, Apple discovered that there was no place for the fingerprint sensor in front, but unlike Google, Apple just dumped the fingerprint sensor instead of placing it in back, leaving Apple users with just face identification for biometrics. Now line up your camera and smile.
I seriously doubt you use both iPhone and Android on a daily basis. In any case, it's not the choice you get anyway. Apple is simply following Google's design lead, just a couple of years late. Unlike Android phones, it looks like the iPhone will end up with only face unlock and no fingerprint sensor at all.
How do you know "you don't see" that?
"It varies"? What exactly "varies"?
Well, you leave me with no doubt as to what "type of man" you are: an economically illiterate nincompoop.
So we have one Democratic billionaire corporate master (Bezos) criticizing another Democratic billionaire corporate master (Jobs) over how to spend tax dollars on education. This is the vision Democrats have for America: propaganda, corporatism, and government by elites and billionaires.
What these pricks are united in is in denying Americans the right to make their own choices for how their kids are educated with the tax dollars their parents have spent.
Everybody is opposed to crony capitalism. The question is whose actions actually promote it, and progressives and Democrats are at the top of the list there. Many Republicans in practice do as well. But for progressives and Democrats promoting crony capitalism is an essential part of the policies they espouse, even while at the same time they claim to oppose it.
Progressives and Democrats usually do things that look good cosmetically ("help poor residents") while promoting crony-capitalist policies that cause these problems in the long run (support and subsidize NFIP).
I'm telling you from first hand experience: the fingerprint sensor on the front of the iPhone sucks. In fact, so does the home button itself.
My premise isn't a pissing contest between Android and iPhone, my premise is that putting the fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone is a good design decision.
Well, that would violate equal protection, but maybe Europeans don't care about that. In any case, so what? What does that have to do with what we were discussing?
More importantly, parents are generally only going to let their children engage in child labor if it is in the interest of the children; that is, if they are so poor that child labor is preferable to other options.
Oh, I see, you're Dutch, that explains your latent fascism. A shame you haven't learned from your history. I'm just putting it out there for all Dutch citizens on this thread.
They can, and consumers end up paying the price for it.
A free market is simply one in which any two people can engage in voluntary business transactions according to conditions that they choose. Free markets don't require an infinite number of buyers or sellers. They do require absence of regulations. Free markets are widespread.
Slavery is a creation of government; it can't exist in a free market.
That's exactly what it is.
Correct: people like you want crony capitalism, slavery, and property theft. You are reprehensible.
I think they copied a bad design decision from the iPhone.
I have no opinion on what "you should do". For all I know, a rotary phone is ideal for you.
I'm telling you what people tend to do, and it's different from what you do,.