RockIslandLine

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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"Many countries could be come debt free" Why is "debt-free" a desirable condition for a nation?
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"This starts with compensating them fairly and providing important benefits." So 51% of corporate profits are reserved for the employee bonus pool? And all employees are eligible for said bonuses? It's not hard to come up wi
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
The same way it worked for Atlantis. Do you have some special method of holding back the tides?
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"I don't believe consumers secretly yearn for largely text based pages" I sure as hell do. Joe Sixpack doesn't give a fuck either way.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
That's not a precedent to set lightly. Government money creation should be used for actually productive purposes. While avoiding costs represents some kind of return, it's not clear that's the best plan.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
Relationships matter. Independent truckers or small trucking companies have close relationships with their customers. The matters in both the Business-As-Usual case (Ron drives a beer distribution truck which makes the same route to the s
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
That's why you have taxes to destroy money and control inflation. There are good reasons why budgets should be close to balanced most of the time.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
Are you unclear on the meaning of create?
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"I want higher taxes because the government can do better things with the money" Note that this thinking only applies to nations which are currency users, not currency issuers. For a nation with it's own fiat currency (curren
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
My social skills are just fine. You don't waste my time, and I won't waste yours. If you ain't got nothing to say, don't waste my time.
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by RockIslandLine 8y ago
As a state employee, my salary is published for all to see. https://illinoiscomptroller.gov/financial-data/state-expendi...
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by RockIslandLine 8y ago
Inflation comes from too much money chasing too few goods and services. So to reduce inflation, the easiest way to remove money from circulation is to buy Federal government bonds. The other way to reduce inflation is to create new value am
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by RockIslandLine 8y ago
Demonstrate how those programs do keep the country safe. Just because someone wants to do it doesn't mean that it's actually valuable work. ------ "Karp, whose Palo Alto, California-based company provides services to the D
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by RockIslandLine 10y ago
As someone with gaps in my resume for various reasons, I have found a range of responses by potential employers. I have worked in two different career fields. When I made that switch, getting the professional certifications took me about 3
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by RockIslandLine 11y ago
Because women commit vastly fewer crimes than men in almost every way. https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/...