Welfare states are by their very nature more totalitarian than free states. It is not possible to take from people what they won't voluntarily give up without the use of force or the threat of using force, and that's the core of a welfare state, and that's the foundational principle of totalitarianism.
Competition is a bogus issue, and it's not far away from a "zero-sum" mentality. Production is the more fundamental and more relevant issue. For something to be owned or consumed, it must first be produced. On an individual basis, a person should produce enough to provide for his life.
A lot of math has utility. We humans need to eat and we like to be comfortable. Choosing the sort of math that allows us to do those things is in large part not arbitrary.
Tabula rasa refers to the epistemological idea that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception. (wikipedia)
The tabula rasa concept refers to lack of innate knowledge, not any particular level of potential.
The tabula rasa concept is more true than not. A newborn has reflexes like breathing and suckling, and some memory of events in the womb, but little else. It may learn morals and math and language and physics, and that's no contradiction of the blank slate because it's not born with those things. A lack of ability to learn such things does not contradict the tabula rasa concept either. A small or damaged blank slate is still a blank slate.
The cost of teaching algebra is pretty close to the cost of teaching "Dick and Jane". Allocating more money to teach advanced subjects K-12 is wasting money, because the actual costs for the advanced subjects (unless they require additional expensive equipment and consumables) is the same as basic subjects.
Roe v. Wade has already been partially overturned by Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In any case, the whole issue has been built on a rotten foundation, considering such issues as a "right to privacy" (it isn't obvious that you're pregnant?) and the interests of the state (The state has no right to butt into this most personal of issues, and no possible valid claim to potential future humans.)
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Roe v. Wade needs to be thrown out in entirety and an almost the same result built on rational grounds.
Most federal government spending falls into 3 categories: breaking things (military), paying people not to be economically productive (social programs), and making production difficult or impossible (enforcement of regulations).
Cutting any of those 3 strengthens the economy, and it is the production of goods and services, not money, that is the foundation of our ability to pay our debts.
Careless cutting of military spending results in being conquered, which is not a good thing. Severe cutting of federal government social programs and regulation enforcement will leave the government with more money to pay off debts and will boost the economy.
The reason lowering taxes is ineffective is that government spending is not being matched to taxation. Lowered taxes should result in more money available for hiring, but social programs make it more profitable for layabouts and welfare cheats to stay out of the taxable labor force. If lowered taxes were matched by lowered social sewer^H^H^H^H^H services expenses, more people would be working. More working means more production of goods and more wages, and (after a delay) a compensating quantity of taxes at the new lower rate.
The only serious effort to balance the budget resulted in the Great Depression.
There is widespread disagreement about the causes of the Great Depression, but this is the first time I've seen your preposterous claim. Clues are available in the fact that the Great Depression was a US phenomenon, whereas there was only a normal recession with a normal recovery in Europe and elsewhere. That means the US was doing something wrong after the 1929 stock market crash and the subsequent partial recovery The wrong things included social programs, restrictions on business, and destruction of food by the government, among many others.
The Great Depression was not deep and long because of what happened before before 1929, but what happened after.
I don't know about these bonds, but sometimes the terms of the bond allow them to be paid off early. If tax situations become markedly different and inflation is low, forced early redemption might happen.
That was my first thought. Recovery isn't guaranteed, and the process might be labor intensive. They'd have to notify their customers that their data might be corrupted.
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Why do you call it a "reform" when it makes things worse?
The state provides nothing it has not already stolen.
Welfare states are by their very nature more totalitarian than free states. It is not possible to take from people what they won't voluntarily give up without the use of force or the threat of using force, and that's the core of a welfare state, and that's the foundational principle of totalitarianism.
Competition is a bogus issue, and it's not far away from a "zero-sum" mentality. Production is the more fundamental and more relevant issue. For something to be owned or consumed, it must first be produced. On an individual basis, a person should produce enough to provide for his life.
You don't know that. The current climate might be drastically different from what it is now if animals hadn't been farting for millions of years.
The need to defend civilization against insane (i.e. religious) middle eastern murderers does not disappear if the use of fossil fuels stops.
Then who wins? The prison rapists?
A lot of math has utility. We humans need to eat and we like to be comfortable. Choosing the sort of math that allows us to do those things is in large part not arbitrary.
Tabula rasa refers to the epistemological idea that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception. (wikipedia)
The tabula rasa concept refers to lack of innate knowledge, not any particular level of potential.
The tabula rasa concept is more true than not. A newborn has reflexes like breathing and suckling, and some memory of events in the womb, but little else. It may learn morals and math and language and physics, and that's no contradiction of the blank slate because it's not born with those things. A lack of ability to learn such things does not contradict the tabula rasa concept either. A small or damaged blank slate is still a blank slate.
If you're trying for humor, you failed. If you're aiming for bitter incoherence, you've succeeded.
The cost of teaching algebra is pretty close to the cost of teaching "Dick and Jane". Allocating more money to teach advanced subjects K-12 is wasting money, because the actual costs for the advanced subjects (unless they require additional expensive equipment and consumables) is the same as basic subjects.
Pity the poor CEO of Microsoft. He's in a dead-end job; he can never be promoted.
Sounds as if you can find an excuse for any sort of abuse.
Roe v. Wade has already been partially overturned by Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In any case, the whole issue has been built on a rotten foundation, considering such issues as a "right to privacy" (it isn't obvious that you're pregnant?) and the interests of the state (The state has no right to butt into this most personal of issues, and no possible valid claim to potential future humans. )
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Roe v. Wade needs to be thrown out in entirety and an almost the same result built on rational grounds.
Most federal government spending falls into 3 categories: breaking things (military), paying people not to be economically productive (social programs), and making production difficult or impossible (enforcement of regulations).
Cutting any of those 3 strengthens the economy, and it is the production of goods and services, not money, that is the foundation of our ability to pay our debts.
Careless cutting of military spending results in being conquered, which is not a good thing. Severe cutting of federal government social programs and regulation enforcement will leave the government with more money to pay off debts and will boost the economy.
The reason lowering taxes is ineffective is that government spending is not being matched to taxation. Lowered taxes should result in more money available for hiring, but social programs make it more profitable for layabouts and welfare cheats to stay out of the taxable labor force. If lowered taxes were matched by lowered social sewer^H^H^H^H^H services expenses, more people would be working. More working means more production of goods and more wages, and (after a delay) a compensating quantity of taxes at the new lower rate.
There is widespread disagreement about the causes of the Great Depression, but this is the first time I've seen your preposterous claim. Clues are available in the fact that the Great Depression was a US phenomenon, whereas there was only a normal recession with a normal recovery in Europe and elsewhere. That means the US was doing something wrong after the 1929 stock market crash and the subsequent partial recovery The wrong things included social programs, restrictions on business, and destruction of food by the government, among many others.
The Great Depression was not deep and long because of what happened before before 1929, but what happened after.
US debt fell each year from 1919 to 1930. Would you like to explain how that happened without a surplus?
https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo3.htm
Perhaps you mean the US had no net debt during Andrew Jackson's administration.
I don't know about these bonds, but sometimes the terms of the bond allow them to be paid off early. If tax situations become markedly different and inflation is low, forced early redemption might happen.
The 90% tax rate would be an incentive to waste money in order to avoid taxation.
Lithium is about $7.5 / kilogram, or $3 / pound, and going up rapidly as demand increases.
And if you equip your Tesla with a 1000 kg battery and go for a drive when it's -20 Fahrenheit, you might make it to the end of your driveway.
I like KDE, but I make sure never to enable frippery like akonadi and nepomuk. If you never use superfluous software, it can't do any damage.
That was my first thought. Recovery isn't guaranteed, and the process might be labor intensive. They'd have to notify their customers that their data might be corrupted.
I know I'm reading the words of a deranged leftist when I see the phrase "brown people".