And they’re willing to sign a letter saying so. They still don’t have a plan of their own, because they know that it would be politically disastrous for them to state what they actually want – but they also know they can’t run through next year’s election with this in the news cycle.
Actually, they have had one budget, but they couldn’t bring themselves to let anyone see it.
I could be misunderstanding what’s going on here, but it sounds like they’re making the classic Marxist mistake, and assuming that the solution to the problem is to destroy created wealth, trying to make other wealth more valuable. It does not – wealth is not created by acts of destruction. What they should be doing is letting the housing price fall to the point where buyers are actually willing to invest. By not doing so, they’re being as intractable as the homeowners who refuse to sell at less than a profit.
While I wish we could choose which side we were funding, the fact of the matter is that money is fungible, and oil is precious enough that even if we get all of ours from Canada, other nations will still use enough of it that the regimes we don’t like are still getting cash.
What we could do is produce our own – lowering the dependency on foreign sources, and perhaps even eventually becoming one of the nations competing with those tyrannies for the oil money. And yes, we do have the energy reserves to do so.
The one who created the public’s image of drowning polar bears is now under investigation.
I never would have guessed…On the one hand, it’s arguably even more progressive than our current tax code, but on the other, it drastically cleans up the tax code and gets the politicians mitts off it.
In New York. Strange how we keep seeing this from Democrats, but not from Republicans, isn’t it?
Excellent. A huge percentage of our problems would go away if we threw away our arcane tax code, and went with something that was easy to enforce, comply with, and light on businesses. That’s what the Fairtax does. A flat tax would also be massively better than our current tax code, but there are a lot of good reasons why the Fairtax would be better.
Drug prices are plummeting as patents are expiring.
Patents are meant to expire for precisely this reason. The mixed bag is that the cost of bringing new drugs to market, and defending existing drugs from lawsuits, is so high that it’s hard for drug companies to recoup their costs in time. I think the solution isn’t patent reform, but fixing those costs.
A Muslim woman who wasn’t hired by Abercrombie and Fitch just got awarded $20,000, claiming she has the right to work there even though she wants to wear a hijab.
That same logic justifies Quaker pacifists suing the military, Buddhists vegetarians suing butchers, and Jewish Orthodox suing Playboy. And is completely inane.
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