The Leave campaign in particular was very anti-expert, anti-reason, believe in your country rah rah rah.
Leave wanted sovereignty over their own country and currency. Entirely reasonable positions, so Remain had to engage the sort of petty distortions and propaganda that they accused Leave of engaging in.
But as a subset of relying more on land taxes, which is going to hurt retirees and encourage people to work right up until they die. Cure is worse than the disease. Repeal Prop 13, but lower property tax rates while increasing those for income. The exception would be for vacant property and vacation homes - go ahead and tax them more.
We didn't win WW2 for the Russians, all we did in Europe was keep Western Europe out of their hands.
Hence the don't in "don't ask a Russian why they don't like the US more since we won WWII", Captain Obvious. 80% of German casualties came at the hands of the Soviet Army, so I ask western exceptionalists if they really would have wanted to face five times the Nazi presence on the western front. Hell, if Hitler hadn't been such an idiot and waited to attack the USSR, D-Day may have come years earlier - except it would have been the Germans landing in Wales.
Outright banning it would be a hard sell. Taxing corporate welfare might get some grudging support from libertarians, a la the Stop BEZOS Act. Sure, they don't like regulation much, but do they really want to be paying more in taxes to go straight into quarterly profits?
Pass a federal law that taxes all corporate subsidies at 150% of the subsidy, to account for Hollywood Accounting. With the important exception being: companies can avoid the tax if the state or local entity giving the subsidy gets an ownership stake equivalent to the value of the subsidy.
Example: the Dallas Cowboys are valued at about $4 billion dollars. If Jerry Jones wants a billion-dollar stadium constructed for his team and doesn't want to pay for himself, he can choose between paying half that again in taxes, or giving 25% ownership of the team to the city of Dallas. This would allow state and local governments to work to encourage industry - but give them an ownership stake in return for asking taxpayers to engage in corporate welfare.
If you're jaywalking and a car has to slow down, swerve or otherwise change course to avoid you, then you deserve to get hit by that car, the end.
If you're driving and have that mindset towards pedestrians, hopefully the guy you're about to run over will turn out to be George Zimmerman, and we can take care of two problems in one fell swoop.
You're welcome. Any other pro tips you need? Don't call a marine a sailor, don't ask a Russian why they don't like the US more since we won WWII, don't give your orthodox jewish friend a ham for Christmas...
No. That would be the income tax, which directly and easily scales with how much a person makes. As opposed to relying on property taxes, which is going to screw over workers the second they retire.
I'm always amazed every time rent control is brought up as some type of 'solution' to a housing shortage. Number of new housing units created by rent control? Zero. Absolutely NO new housing gets created.
I'm amazed you think rent control is supposed to create new housing directly. It's direct purpose is to keep people from being forced to move because they can't afford exploding rents while their paycheck stagnates. It's to prevent gentrification.
Besides, how are bourgeois shitbags going to get their lattes and street food while on break, if no one can afford to live in the area on the wages those jobs provide?
Unfortunately our states Leftist have forgotten that being a leftist means first, second, and third, looking out for those with less money.
Unfortunately you wouldn't know a leftist if the entire Soviet Army bit you on the ass. Democrats dominate the state government in California - but they're just another party of right-wing asshole capitalists.
Except that manufacturing jobs in the US have been on the rise since 2010...
Except that's ignoring the economic crash that started in 2008 and got worse in 2009. Your own link shows that manufacturing jobs are down in 2018 by over a million from where they were ten years ago. And when you take population increases into account, manufacturing jobs have kept shrinking as a sector of the economy, even as new jobs are "added".
Do you have ANY idea how stupid you sound right now?
Do you?
Because your argument is about as fucking pants on head retarded as saying if I change tires on my Ford its now a fake as it still has the Ford logo on the grill!
Let's fix your analogy by making the Ford a Shelby GT-500 you bought used. It still looks like a Mustang, handles like a Mustang and may have a perfectly nice refurbished engine - but not the 500 hp cast iron block from Shelby, despite having all the Cobra decals. Which was one of the main reasons for making the purchase in the first place.
Do you understand how far this reasoning could be applied to? For example, you will not be allowed to sell your old iPhone, or iMac to somebody else, because it has Apple logo and you are not Apple and you are not allowed to use the Apple logo.
There isn't a line that connects those dots. Used equipment from an OEM is not at all the same thing as new generic parts with a trademarked logo slapped on them.
You know, sometimes people tell me that Russian trolls aren't a thing.
Probably by the same sort of people that told you that Saddam really didn't have WMD's or planned 911. You know....people that aren't gullible fools.
Then I get someone like you, who is trying to pretend that things like budgets are the primary defining features
Budgets are a measure of capacity and intent. Stephen Hawking may have always wanted to be a professional boxer, but really wasn't in a position to be one. Putin could be evil James Bond villain that western exceptionalists pretend he is (intent) but he doesn't have the capacity, and he's not in a position to do.01% the level of planetary spying the NSA does on a daily basis.
rather than results.
Results? Where's the Russian equivalent to the Five Eyes, where they try to not just spy on the rest of the world, but each other's own citizens to get around pesky FISA laws or the 4th Amendment. Where's the Russian equivalent to the backdoors the FBI/CIA/NSA have in communication networks, consumer electronics and operating systems. Did AT&T give Putin direct access to its hubs they way it did for the USG? Where's the history of Putin spying on the personal communications of allied heads of state?
"All things are equal, intent equals capacity derp derp"
When was the last time you remember US pulling something like Crimea?
You mean accept a democratic vote to re-join Russia? Never. Do try and explain why the US-backed junta in Ukraine would have any legitimacy, but a super-supermajority vote for self-determination has none.
And as for the rest, "illegal wars", etc irrelevant moralizing
Stomping your feet and shouting "la la la I can't hear you" does jack and shit to change the fact that the US has been a horrible ally to Europe, and Jack left town.
vae victus
vae victis. If you're going to be a twat throwing Big Words around like they're supposed to mean something, you might want to spell them correctly. Now, onto your equally obnoxious avoidance of ghoul's points:
The Ruble is not the international reserve currency so all trade goes through New York not Moscow hence the US has opportunity to spy on all world trade transactions. India is demanding that at least domestic trade transactions not be spied on by not having the data go through New York
That's nice. How is this relevant to what I said?
Capacity and intent. See above. If the ruble becomes the world's reserve currency and Putin uses the resulting infrastructure to spy on everyone's business, then we can talk - but not before then.
Lets talk about the outrage over the Saudis kidnapping the Lebanese PM. Who did they learn from? The US kidnapping the Panamian President.
Moralizing doesn't work in geopolitics because of its utter irrelevance. Which is why most people on the planet who haven't been completely insulated in ridiculous propaganda bubble of modernity that tries to assign geopolitical actions on a "good vs evil" dimension generally don't subscribe to this model of thinking. It's highly unnatural.
"All things are equal, intent equals capacity derp derp". Again. All this prattle about propaganda bubbles is just projection on your part, to keep ignoring the indisputable fact that the United States is not just the biggest asshole on the planet, but bigger than all other assholes combined. Putin is nothing more than the latest in a long line of boogymen used to frighten western exceptionalists like yourself into shitting the bed on command, to justify being a continent sized Sarlacc orifice with an insatiable appetite.
If long distance power lines are good enough for nuclear and coal, they're good enough for pumped storage:
"The idea was to build a power plant adjacent to the lignite fields in North Dakota to supply electricity to Minnesota cooperatives," said John Bauer, the director of North Dakota generation for Great River Energy. The power travels more than 400 miles by direct current (DC) transmission lines from Coal Creek Station to a large substation just west of the Twin Cities.
More than enough to build a pumped storage facility in the Guadalupe Mountains range and run it to much of Texas and Oklahoma. So good enough....really is good enough.
I spent twenty years as an engineer but didn't feel fulfilled because I couldn't see a direct impact of my labor improving the lives of the people around me
You could drive past whatever bridge/reservoir/building/car you helped engineer and see what it was doing for people's lives at any time.
I wanted a way to more directly benefit those around me
By touting investments that may or may not make money, but will eat at the people putting down all the cash and taking all the risk with fees. What a humanitarian you are.
If you think Russia isn't trying to do at least as much, I have bridge on the Moon to sell you.
Yeah, you do "own" a bridge on the moon if you believe that baseless tautology. Russia's entire defense budget is a fraction of the last increase to Pentagon spending. They have an economy smaller than austerity-wrecked Spain. The United States has a thousand military bases around the world - can you name one of Russia's outside of Syria or Sevastopol? Little computer tech is made in Russia, and Russia had nothing to do with building the internet or financial infrastructure that these two Senators want to remain back doored for the NSA.
All this "all things are equal, intent equals capacity derp derp" is just deflection from the fact that not only is the United States the biggest asshole in the world today, it is worse than all other assholes combined.
And for the time being, US interests remain firmly aligned with those in Western countries.
The refugee crisis that has enveloped Europe, cost the EU huge sums of money, and has led directly to the rise of far-right wing parties - is the direct result of America's illegal wars. If war comes again to Europe, it will start in Ukraine - thanks to the United States overthrowing the elected government under Obama, and now arming literal neo-Nazis under Trump. Some "ally".
This move by India will make it harder to pump all that information straight to the NSA's ginormous server farm in Utah. After the Snowden and Vault 7 leaks plus the revelation that the US was tapping Angela Merkle's personal cell phone, every country should be treating the US as the hostile foreign power that Russia has been accused of being.
You're so far out there you can see Pluto from your house. People like you are why gulags were invented, so you can spend a couple of decades digging ditches while rethinking your life choices.
Wrong, it means China will continue to grow its production, which already outstrips the USA 2 to 1
When they have four times the population of the United States while having a fraction of its wealth? I see you're working real hard to dispel the notion that your arrogance is in a contest with your sense of entitlement to see who's in control.
Or the Department of Energy managing America's nuclear weapon arsenal. You can basically take the official number and double it (to well over a trillion) with all the military spending the government pretends ins't military spending:
Jill Stein being in the race and taking more votes in 3 states than Hillary lost by is how you got Trump.
That's also wrong, as more Republicans voted for Johnson and McMullen than Democrats did for Stein. Take third parties out of the race and Clinton would have done worse, not better. In fact she would have lost at least Minnesota, as she was ahead of Trump by only 45,000 votes in that state - Johnson and McMullen put together had more than three times that many.
Your sig says "debt is slavery". Are you suggesting those that accumulated debt are putting people into slavery? No one asked them to sign up for credit cards, car loans, home loans, or anything else. Slavery means "without consent". When you apply, sign, and shop, you consented.
What a sweet, elitist summer child you are. Car breaks down and you have no choice but to fix it unless you want to lose your job, followed by an eviction? Put the repair on credit. Have to go see the doctor but you have a shitty health insurance plan with a high co-pay and deductible? Put it on credit. It's not a choice when it's a matter of necessity.
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Annnnd threatened that the UK would to the back of the trading queue. I see the blinders Remain on.
Whatever you say, Bizarro.
Leave wanted sovereignty over their own country and currency. Entirely reasonable positions, so Remain had to engage the sort of petty distortions and propaganda that they accused Leave of engaging in.
But as a subset of relying more on land taxes, which is going to hurt retirees and encourage people to work right up until they die. Cure is worse than the disease. Repeal Prop 13, but lower property tax rates while increasing those for income. The exception would be for vacant property and vacation homes - go ahead and tax them more.
Hence the don't in "don't ask a Russian why they don't like the US more since we won WWII", Captain Obvious. 80% of German casualties came at the hands of the Soviet Army, so I ask western exceptionalists if they really would have wanted to face five times the Nazi presence on the western front. Hell, if Hitler hadn't been such an idiot and waited to attack the USSR, D-Day may have come years earlier - except it would have been the Germans landing in Wales.
Your continued projection is noted.
Outright banning it would be a hard sell. Taxing corporate welfare might get some grudging support from libertarians, a la the Stop BEZOS Act. Sure, they don't like regulation much, but do they really want to be paying more in taxes to go straight into quarterly profits?
Pass a federal law that taxes all corporate subsidies at 150% of the subsidy, to account for Hollywood Accounting. With the important exception being: companies can avoid the tax if the state or local entity giving the subsidy gets an ownership stake equivalent to the value of the subsidy.
Example: the Dallas Cowboys are valued at about $4 billion dollars. If Jerry Jones wants a billion-dollar stadium constructed for his team and doesn't want to pay for himself, he can choose between paying half that again in taxes, or giving 25% ownership of the team to the city of Dallas. This would allow state and local governments to work to encourage industry - but give them an ownership stake in return for asking taxpayers to engage in corporate welfare.
If you're driving and have that mindset towards pedestrians, hopefully the guy you're about to run over will turn out to be George Zimmerman, and we can take care of two problems in one fell swoop.
You're welcome. Any other pro tips you need? Don't call a marine a sailor, don't ask a Russian why they don't like the US more since we won WWII, don't give your orthodox jewish friend a ham for Christmas...
No. That would be the income tax, which directly and easily scales with how much a person makes. As opposed to relying on property taxes, which is going to screw over workers the second they retire.
I'm amazed you think rent control is supposed to create new housing directly. It's direct purpose is to keep people from being forced to move because they can't afford exploding rents while their paycheck stagnates. It's to prevent gentrification.
Besides, how are bourgeois shitbags going to get their lattes and street food while on break, if no one can afford to live in the area on the wages those jobs provide?
Unfortunately you wouldn't know a leftist if the entire Soviet Army bit you on the ass. Democrats dominate the state government in California - but they're just another party of right-wing asshole capitalists.
Except that's ignoring the economic crash that started in 2008 and got worse in 2009. Your own link shows that manufacturing jobs are down in 2018 by over a million from where they were ten years ago. And when you take population increases into account, manufacturing jobs have kept shrinking as a sector of the economy, even as new jobs are "added".
Do you?
Let's fix your analogy by making the Ford a Shelby GT-500 you bought used. It still looks like a Mustang, handles like a Mustang and may have a perfectly nice refurbished engine - but not the 500 hp cast iron block from Shelby, despite having all the Cobra decals. Which was one of the main reasons for making the purchase in the first place.
There isn't a line that connects those dots. Used equipment from an OEM is not at all the same thing as new generic parts with a trademarked logo slapped on them.
Probably by the same sort of people that told you that Saddam really didn't have WMD's or planned 911. You know....people that aren't gullible fools.
Budgets are a measure of capacity and intent. Stephen Hawking may have always wanted to be a professional boxer, but really wasn't in a position to be one. Putin could be evil James Bond villain that western exceptionalists pretend he is (intent) but he doesn't have the capacity, and he's not in a position to do .01% the level of planetary spying the NSA does on a daily basis.
Results? Where's the Russian equivalent to the Five Eyes, where they try to not just spy on the rest of the world, but each other's own citizens to get around pesky FISA laws or the 4th Amendment. Where's the Russian equivalent to the backdoors the FBI/CIA/NSA have in communication networks, consumer electronics and operating systems. Did AT&T give Putin direct access to its hubs they way it did for the USG? Where's the history of Putin spying on the personal communications of allied heads of state?
"All things are equal, intent equals capacity derp derp"
You mean accept a democratic vote to re-join Russia? Never. Do try and explain why the US-backed junta in Ukraine would have any legitimacy, but a super-supermajority vote for self-determination has none.
Stomping your feet and shouting "la la la I can't hear you" does jack and shit to change the fact that the US has been a horrible ally to Europe, and Jack left town.
vae vict i s. If you're going to be a twat throwing Big Words around like they're supposed to mean something, you might want to spell them correctly. Now, onto your equally obnoxious avoidance of ghoul's points:
Capacity and intent. See above. If the ruble becomes the world's reserve currency and Putin uses the resulting infrastructure to spy on everyone's business, then we can talk - but not before then.
"All things are equal, intent equals capacity derp derp". Again. All this prattle about propaganda bubbles is just projection on your part, to keep ignoring the indisputable fact that the United States is not just the biggest asshole on the planet, but bigger than all other assholes combined. Putin is nothing more than the latest in a long line of boogymen used to frighten western exceptionalists like yourself into shitting the bed on command, to justify being a continent sized Sarlacc orifice with an insatiable appetite.
If long distance power lines are good enough for nuclear and coal, they're good enough for pumped storage:
More than enough to build a pumped storage facility in the Guadalupe Mountains range and run it to much of Texas and Oklahoma. So good enough....really is good enough.
You could drive past whatever bridge/reservoir/building/car you helped engineer and see what it was doing for people's lives at any time.
By touting investments that may or may not make money, but will eat at the people putting down all the cash and taking all the risk with fees. What a humanitarian you are.
Yeah, you do "own" a bridge on the moon if you believe that baseless tautology. Russia's entire defense budget is a fraction of the last increase to Pentagon spending. They have an economy smaller than austerity-wrecked Spain. The United States has a thousand military bases around the world - can you name one of Russia's outside of Syria or Sevastopol? Little computer tech is made in Russia, and Russia had nothing to do with building the internet or financial infrastructure that these two Senators want to remain back doored for the NSA.
All this "all things are equal, intent equals capacity derp derp" is just deflection from the fact that not only is the United States the biggest asshole in the world today, it is worse than all other assholes combined.
The refugee crisis that has enveloped Europe, cost the EU huge sums of money, and has led directly to the rise of far-right wing parties - is the direct result of America's illegal wars. If war comes again to Europe, it will start in Ukraine - thanks to the United States overthrowing the elected government under Obama, and now arming literal neo-Nazis under Trump. Some "ally".
This move by India will make it harder to pump all that information straight to the NSA's ginormous server farm in Utah. After the Snowden and Vault 7 leaks plus the revelation that the US was tapping Angela Merkle's personal cell phone, every country should be treating the US as the hostile foreign power that Russia has been accused of being.
You're so far out there you can see Pluto from your house. People like you are why gulags were invented, so you can spend a couple of decades digging ditches while rethinking your life choices.
When they have four times the population of the United States while having a fraction of its wealth? I see you're working real hard to dispel the notion that your arrogance is in a contest with your sense of entitlement to see who's in control.
Or the Department of Energy managing America's nuclear weapon arsenal. You can basically take the official number and double it (to well over a trillion) with all the military spending the government pretends ins't military spending:
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That's also wrong, as more Republicans voted for Johnson and McMullen than Democrats did for Stein. Take third parties out of the race and Clinton would have done worse, not better. In fact she would have lost at least Minnesota, as she was ahead of Trump by only 45,000 votes in that state - Johnson and McMullen put together had more than three times that many.
What a sweet, elitist summer child you are. Car breaks down and you have no choice but to fix it unless you want to lose your job, followed by an eviction? Put the repair on credit. Have to go see the doctor but you have a shitty health insurance plan with a high co-pay and deductible? Put it on credit. It's not a choice when it's a matter of necessity.