On the other hand, there are a good number of things I can think of where a 72 hour waiting period might be inappropriate such as disaster reliefand other time sensitive bills typically handled swiftly by all parties involved.
Are you serious? Do you imagine first-responders to disasters need a literal act of (state) congress to respond? The various departments of the state are pre-authorized to respond, the so-called 'disaster relief' bills would address things like investments in reconstruction, providing emergency housing, etc., and are passed well after the disaster. First the disaster occurs, then the damage is assessed, cost estimates are formulated, then disaster relief bills are drafted and passed.
You could always amend the state constitution to provide a fast-track for a very specific type of bill, but honestly such a provision would likely be exploited way too often, rendering the bill useless.
How about we just admit that this idea sucks balls.
My comment was directed at Democrats, to make a point about blanket partisan rejection of bills...
And yes, Obamacare 'sucks balls' (you mean that in the bad way, right?) that's why Republicans moved on from the idea and choose not to rally around it when Democrats resurrected it in 2009.
Business owners like Trump generally run dictatorships and aren't up to the grinding job of building a coalition to get things done.
Your right, Trump has never gotten various suppliers and contractors together to accomplish anything - all his multi-million dollar renovations and construction projects "just happen" without any intervention or direction from him.
Are you really that stupid, or do you just not even pause when regurgitating democrat party talking points?
It isn't about "discussions" it is about posting the "final text of all proposed legislation" for 72 hours before a final vote:
If passed, the law would require that the final text of all proposed legislation be published on the Internet for 72 hours before lawmakers can conduct a final vote.
Also, I'm pretty sure California broadcasts their legislative sessions, but I am curious why you feel a need to provide lawmakers with a "safe space" to conduct backroom deals.
According to Steven Maviglio, the director of Californians for an Effective Legislature, a campaign committee formed to oppose Proposition 54. It all comes down to who is behind the initiative, and why. "The first thing you need to do is follow the money," he told Ars, pointing us to Munger, Jr. "He's been the top contributor to the California Republican Party. His goal is to disrupt the power of a legislature that's getting things done."
WTF? Ignore the actual wording, just look at who is proposing it! That's all you need to know. Oh, and "Getting things done" isn't the right metric, "doing the right thing" is, and they are not equivalent.
Dear Democrats, a little lesson for you - you know Obamacare (PPACA)? You know where the idea came from? (Brace yourself) A Republican! And when it was proposed by the Heritage Foundation it was attacked and vilified because, well, it wasn't Hillary Care, and since Hillary Care was the Democrat idea and the Heritage Foundation's plan was the Democrat plan, it must be destroyed! Until one day, many years later, Gov. Romney and the MA legislature picked it up, dusted it off, and tried it - it worked! The Democrats, thanks to their short memories, saw what happened in MA and decided to take it nation-wide. When the Republicans started to push back on (what was now called) Obamacare, suddenly one of the Democrats remembered it was a Republican plan (from the crazy old Heritage Foundation) and wondered why Republicans were attacking what was essentially their own plan!
Moral of the story - if Democrats didn't reject the Heritage Foundation plan back when Hillary's husband was in office for no other reason than it wasn't their plan, we could have had all the benefits of Obamacare at least ten tears earlier.
"getting things done" is not the same thing as "doing the right thing" - the person opposing posting the final language of a bill for 72 hours before passage is hoping you don't see the difference...
The whole point of Prop. 54, as I read it, is to make sure the gov't is "doing the right thing" - what's wrong with that? Oh, right, it was proposed by a "republican"! Yikes! It must be a trick of some kind!
Who else would vote for a lying, racist, narcissist and egomaniac piece of shit dimwit as the Donald.
Anyone that has the ability to do any critical thinking... Aside from her (claimed) lady-parts, her second claim to be the next president are, in no particular order:
Under the agreement, all governments that have ratified the accord, which includes the US, China, India and the EU, now carry an obligation to hold global warming to no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels.
Except, there's no penalty for failing to meet the stated goals...
Bush White House email controversy : 22 million emails deleted, those recovered not made public
Wait, when you say "deleted" what you really mean is "stored on mis-filed backup tapes" - right?
And when you say "not made public" you mean because they weren't asked to be released to the public, right? They were handed over to the requesting legal bodies, no crimes were found, and the issue dropped...
Wikipedia is such a lousy source, why not turn to CNN?
BTW, The "Bush Secret Server" was a public email server, did not carry classified information, and was used in an effort to COMPLY with federal regulations (The Hatch Act), not to subvert the FOIA act...
ust look at the Fred Trump document. it appears to be a 1991 release of data in response to a 1966 FOIA request, containing information covering the years 1962-1988.
You can't submit a FOIA request in advance of the records being created, and a 1966 FOIA request can't be responsible for records spanning 1962-1988.
I'm certain there's a typo in there, just not sure which date you "fat-fingered".
That's not true. The republicans and democrats may fight over elections, but they are absolutely on the same side when it comes to insulating politicians of both affiliations from criminal prosecution. This is why none of the Bush administration was ever prosecuted under the Obama administration. Trump is breaking from tradition in calling for Hillary to be jailed.
For what would members of the Bush administration have been prosecuted for? As a reminder, making a statement that is later proven wrong isn't "lying".
No, that's coordination between two groups, which happens all the time. This kind of behaviour is run of the mill with just about any news story
Except neither organization in this email exchange is, you know, a "news organization"
They each need to know what the other is saying in order to avoid contradiction and confusion.
Really? That's called conspiracy when criminals do it... Why do they need to know what each other is saying? Can't they just tell the truth, rather than what they agree is the version of the truth they want to tell the public.
Hmm. Sweden. Low federal and corporate income taxes.
You and I have differnet definitions of the term "low":
Sweden's "low" income taxes: no taxes on first 413,200 SEK ($46,376US), 20% tax up to 591,600 SEK ($66,399US), and 25% tax on all income above 591,600 SEK ($66,399US)
Only one candidate is the subject of TWO simultaneous FBI investigations, and it ain't the Republican... These investigations are under a DEMOCRAT administration, so its pretty hard to blame an imaginary "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy".
This all could have been avoided if Hillary had deigned to use a state.gov email address - I'm pretty sure hillary2016@state.gov was available.
Lets not forget those endless tax breaks for the wealthiest 1%, and enough loopholes in the tax code so they can enjoy not paying taxes at all...
The Lower 47% enjoy their fair share of "endless tax breaks" - they actually PROFIT from the tax code, collecting standard deduction, dependent credits, earned income tax credits, etc., the sum effect of which is that more than 40% of tax filers "earn" refunds in excess of all monies withheld from their paychecks during the previous tax year.
Any sufficiently large organization (such as a school district) should have better management of their licenses such that they aren't tied directly to a single piece of hardware.
Schools typically license MS products under the "Education Advantage", where by districts pay about $35/year per user for access to all the latest MS desktop products (mainly, but not exclusively Windows and Office).
It is newsworthy/noteworthy that reduced competition leads to higher prices?
From what I understand, cities like NYC have very carefully-crafted laws regarding hotels designed to protect the rights and safety of both the hotelier and the guest. AirBnB wants to be exempt from all those regulations and hospitality taxes because, well, it allows them to offer a lower-cost option without any significant investment. In effect, AirBnB wants to be a hotelier that owns no hotel rooms, pays no hospitality taxes, and has no legal responsibility for anything that happens in a space they rented.
That AirBnB can't pick and choose the tax, safety, and other regulations that apply to their 'service' isn't discriminatory against AirBnB, it is treating everyone equally.
And Comcast should make it possible for people to opt-out of some of the fees (my personal pet-peeve fee is the regional sports fee; I do not watch sports, and do no wish to contribute to the broadcast of same), although that is a different discussion.
That sounds like a fee imposed to pay for a local sports team stadium, not a cable company fee.
What you maybe/should be complaining about is the ESPN fee you are paying.
A higher price for credit purchases of gas is extremely common in the US, I don't know of any gas station that charges the same price for cash or credit. See, the margin on gas for the station owner is tiny, and giving the credit card processor 2-3% of each gallon sold wipes out a big part, if not all, the profit in a gallon of gas.
The 3% a credit card processor charges comes out to about 6 cents/gal at current prices - and that's fairly typical for the spread between cash and credit prices on gasoline.
Didn't the USA revolt against UK for taxation without representations? These extra hotel taxes even if approved by local citizens are ususally only charged to visitors since that is who hotel rooms are designed/targeted to!!!
Oh no! Without those taxes on hotels and rental cars, who ever will the locals fund their newest billion-dollar sports arena?
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Are you serious? Do you imagine first-responders to disasters need a literal act of (state) congress to respond? The various departments of the state are pre-authorized to respond, the so-called 'disaster relief' bills would address things like investments in reconstruction, providing emergency housing, etc., and are passed well after the disaster. First the disaster occurs, then the damage is assessed, cost estimates are formulated, then disaster relief bills are drafted and passed.
You could always amend the state constitution to provide a fast-track for a very specific type of bill, but honestly such a provision would likely be exploited way too often, rendering the bill useless.
My comment was directed at Democrats, to make a point about blanket partisan rejection of bills...
And yes, Obamacare 'sucks balls' (you mean that in the bad way, right?) that's why Republicans moved on from the idea and choose not to rally around it when Democrats resurrected it in 2009.
Your right, Trump has never gotten various suppliers and contractors together to accomplish anything - all his multi-million dollar renovations and construction projects "just happen" without any intervention or direction from him.
Are you really that stupid, or do you just not even pause when regurgitating democrat party talking points?
The top 20% of income earners pay 86% of all collected income taxes at the federal level, so why shouldn't they get 90% of the tax cuts?
I'll let you in on a little secret, it is the folks with "the very highest incomes" that pay the bulk of the taxes. The top 1% earns 20% of the income in America, yet pays 40% of the income taxes collected (at the federal level). Cutting taxes for folks that don't pay any taxes (and the bottom 50% of taxpayers pay less than 3% of all federal income taxes collected) isn't a tax cut, it's a handout.
As then Speaker Pelosi said, "We have to pass the bill, so you can find out what is in it!"
Or, as Rep. John Conyers famously said "Read the bill?"
It isn't about "discussions" it is about posting the "final text of all proposed legislation" for 72 hours before a final vote:
Also, I'm pretty sure California broadcasts their legislative sessions, but I am curious why you feel a need to provide lawmakers with a "safe space" to conduct backroom deals.
What good would that do? Politicians don't report bribes on their tax returns, besides, the folks charged with writing the tax code don't even understand it, just ask Rep. Charles Rangel who failed to realize you need to report income from foreign rental properties he owns.
WTF? Ignore the actual wording, just look at who is proposing it! That's all you need to know. Oh, and "Getting things done" isn't the right metric, "doing the right thing" is, and they are not equivalent.
Dear Democrats, a little lesson for you - you know Obamacare (PPACA)? You know where the idea came from? (Brace yourself) A Republican! And when it was proposed by the Heritage Foundation it was attacked and vilified because, well, it wasn't Hillary Care, and since Hillary Care was the Democrat idea and the Heritage Foundation's plan was the Democrat plan, it must be destroyed! Until one day, many years later, Gov. Romney and the MA legislature picked it up, dusted it off, and tried it - it worked! The Democrats, thanks to their short memories, saw what happened in MA and decided to take it nation-wide. When the Republicans started to push back on (what was now called) Obamacare, suddenly one of the Democrats remembered it was a Republican plan (from the crazy old Heritage Foundation) and wondered why Republicans were attacking what was essentially their own plan!
Moral of the story - if Democrats didn't reject the Heritage Foundation plan back when Hillary's husband was in office for no other reason than it wasn't their plan, we could have had all the benefits of Obamacare at least ten tears earlier.
"getting things done" is not the same thing as "doing the right thing" - the person opposing posting the final language of a bill for 72 hours before passage is hoping you don't see the difference...
The whole point of Prop. 54, as I read it, is to make sure the gov't is "doing the right thing" - what's wrong with that? Oh, right, it was proposed by a "republican"! Yikes! It must be a trick of some kind!
Anyone that has the ability to do any critical thinking... Aside from her (claimed) lady-parts, her second claim to be the next president are, in no particular order:
- It's her turn
- She's not Trump
Except, there's no penalty for failing to meet the stated goals...
Wait, when you say "deleted" what you really mean is "stored on mis-filed backup tapes" - right?
And when you say "not made public" you mean because they weren't asked to be released to the public, right? They were handed over to the requesting legal bodies, no crimes were found, and the issue dropped...
Wikipedia is such a lousy source, why not turn to CNN?
BTW, The "Bush Secret Server" was a public email server, did not carry classified information, and was used in an effort to COMPLY with federal regulations (The Hatch Act), not to subvert the FOIA act...
You can't submit a FOIA request in advance of the records being created, and a 1966 FOIA request can't be responsible for records spanning 1962-1988.
I'm certain there's a typo in there, just not sure which date you "fat-fingered".
That's not true. The republicans and democrats may fight over elections, but they are absolutely on the same side when it comes to insulating politicians of both affiliations from criminal prosecution. This is why none of the Bush administration was ever prosecuted under the Obama administration. Trump is breaking from tradition in calling for Hillary to be jailed.
For what would members of the Bush administration have been prosecuted for? As a reminder, making a statement that is later proven wrong isn't "lying".
Except neither organization in this email exchange is, you know, a "news organization"
Really? That's called conspiracy when criminals do it... Why do they need to know what each other is saying? Can't they just tell the truth, rather than what they agree is the version of the truth they want to tell the public.
You and I have differnet definitions of the term "low":
Sweden's "low" income taxes: no taxes on first 413,200 SEK ($46,376US), 20% tax up to 591,600 SEK ($66,399US), and 25% tax on all income above 591,600 SEK ($66,399US)
Sweden's "low" investment tax is 30%
Sweden's "low" corporate taxes are 22%
Source: https://sweden.se/society/why-...
SEK to US Dollar conversion tool: http://www.likeforex.com/curre...
Except, in many states it is illegal to pay workers per voter registration as we learned during the investigation into ACORN
Only one candidate is the subject of TWO simultaneous FBI investigations, and it ain't the Republican... These investigations are under a DEMOCRAT administration, so its pretty hard to blame an imaginary "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy".
This all could have been avoided if Hillary had deigned to use a state.gov email address - I'm pretty sure hillary2016@state.gov was available.
The Lower 47% enjoy their fair share of "endless tax breaks" - they actually PROFIT from the tax code, collecting standard deduction, dependent credits, earned income tax credits, etc., the sum effect of which is that more than 40% of tax filers "earn" refunds in excess of all monies withheld from their paychecks during the previous tax year.
The top 1% pay about 40% of all income taxes collected, the lowest 50% of taxpayers pay slightly less than 3% of all income taxes collected.
Schools typically license MS products under the "Education Advantage", where by districts pay about $35/year per user for access to all the latest MS desktop products (mainly, but not exclusively Windows and Office).
It is newsworthy/noteworthy that reduced competition leads to higher prices?
From what I understand, cities like NYC have very carefully-crafted laws regarding hotels designed to protect the rights and safety of both the hotelier and the guest. AirBnB wants to be exempt from all those regulations and hospitality taxes because, well, it allows them to offer a lower-cost option without any significant investment. In effect, AirBnB wants to be a hotelier that owns no hotel rooms, pays no hospitality taxes, and has no legal responsibility for anything that happens in a space they rented.
That AirBnB can't pick and choose the tax, safety, and other regulations that apply to their 'service' isn't discriminatory against AirBnB, it is treating everyone equally.
That sounds like a fee imposed to pay for a local sports team stadium, not a cable company fee.
What you maybe/should be complaining about is the ESPN fee you are paying.
A higher price for credit purchases of gas is extremely common in the US, I don't know of any gas station that charges the same price for cash or credit. See, the margin on gas for the station owner is tiny, and giving the credit card processor 2-3% of each gallon sold wipes out a big part, if not all, the profit in a gallon of gas.
The 3% a credit card processor charges comes out to about 6 cents/gal at current prices - and that's fairly typical for the spread between cash and credit prices on gasoline.
Oh no! Without those taxes on hotels and rental cars, who ever will the locals fund their newest billion-dollar sports arena?
The taxes and fees don't go to the water company, they go to all the wonderful programs your local government provides.