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The guy proposed reducing the government and you said he was advocating suffering for the sake of suffering. Why do you think they are hesitant to...
Authoritarianism, lack of commitment to liberty, insufficient compliance with the Constitution, corruption, refusal to eliminate most taxation,...
Why do you care if corporations buy stock from investors? If 10 people own a company together, and 1 of them sells his shares to the company, now...
No, you don't borrow to pay social security benefits. It would be part of a program that cuts deep into other areas of federal spending (such as...
No. You are paying the full amount to current retirees. As you cut the FICA taxes, future retirees will have put in less, so when they retire,...
Those who couldn't afford their own care would need to depend on the kindness of others in one form or another. There would be clinics set up by...
Potentially you could have some sort of mandatory pension program at the state level to replace social security. It would be based on your own...
It would be great if they did, but they don't have the balls or the vision to actually do it.
Yes, you can. Alcohol metabolizes at generally predictable rates (about 0.015-0.02 BAC per hour, once it has been absorbed into your system). That...
That was school shootings in a year, not any shooting in a lifetime. You should also take cover or shoot back if someone is shooting at you, the...
Even with those forecasts, the chances of dying by lightning strike are still as high as dying in a school shooting. That's how rare dying in a...
Why are you transitioning from school shootings to all shootings, and from people killed to people shot? Isn't that a tacit agreement that, yes,...
No, just that it isn't something you need to be concerned about, because the chances of it happening to your kid are extremely remote. Why don't...
It actually stems from a true sense of security, and an understanding that it is almost certain "it won't happen to me." These anecdotes are...
As a male, she wasn't competing against Michael Phelps. That is meaningless. I can't beat the top male swimmers. If I swam against the women, I...
One cannot know a bad policy from a bad policy. That makes no sense. You cannot differentiate on the same identical characteristic. You know what...
The bad policies in the past that make up some of our spending problems do not somehow transmute them into revenue problems. Nor should we...
Totally irrelevant to my post, but I am aware of the social security Ponzi scheme.
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Federal Receipts as Percent of Gross Domestic Product (FYFRGDA188S) | FRED | St. Louis Fed (stlouisfed.org) It was the third highest since 1930....
