Whoppertime

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by Whoppertime 1y ago
I am against rich people putting their kids in private school on credit then having that debt "forgiven" and paid for by people who sent their kids to public school. I am sure those kids are getting a benefit from private educatio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unit... Sovereign Immunity is an idea that has a long precedence. The Supreme Court was arguing that bad behaviour by the President is resolved through impeachme
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
https://www.cato.org/blog/new-k-12-productivity-chart It's hard to believe that education is getting less funding. There seems to be a perception that spending more money on education will result in smarter studen
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
If you look at the home ownership rates of that generation it would be a fair assumption
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/11/05/131105373/the-... I still remember an old Planet Money podcast they did covering a Rent or Buy calculator, It didn't allow for the possibility
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
Some people really just want a back yard with a white picket fence their kids can play in
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
Well if they're buying gasoline in California, or cigarettes in Australia taxes can be a huge part of the pricetag even if they're not thinking of it as taxes. You can see various taxes and fees if you look at the receipt of an ai
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
https://www.cato.org/blog/new-k-12-productivity-chart It's hard to believe that education is getting less funding. There seems to be a perception that spending more money on education will result in smarter studen
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
I think contemporary events force people to be skeptical. For one generation it was the Vietnam War, the dissonance between what generals were saying and what was happening on the ground. Another generation had that happen with WMDs in Iraq
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
"all of these unbelievably useful with high ROI agencies" Unbelievably useful to whom? A lot of people seemed to have problems with what institutions like USAID were doing. I can think of the CIA during Iran Contra as a very usefu
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
That's the thing. COVID was a crisis an emergency, and that justified emergency powers. Donald Trump is declaring the current situation an emergency and is making use of emergency powers. You cannot assume "your side" is goin
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/05/22/japan/gre... Japan would be a classic example of a developed country hamstrung by unaffordable debt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
How is a tax cut a handout to the wealthy? The wealthy still have to earn the money. If the Doctors top tax rate goes from 35% to 30%, and his combined State Local and fee burden goes from 50% to 45%, he still has to perform surgeries to ge
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
Would you be willing to put your money where your mouth is on this issue? Bet that the deficit will go up more over the next 4 years compared to the last 4 years? On January 20, 2021, when President Biden took office, the U.S. national debt
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_U... Defense spending is 12% of the budget. Even if we cut every dime from defense we would still have 88% of the problem and be no closer to a balanced budget
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
At least with tariffs you can understand there will be short term economic pain for presumed long term economic gain Polling of Biden voters seem to suggest they didn't expect the 20% inflation that happened between Biden entering offi
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
Who would you say was a real journalist as opposed to a propagandist during the COVID 19 era? I am not asking this as a gimme but out of curiosity of who you thought was a true journalist during a time where many journalists were acting as
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
The concept of "Diversity Equity and Inclusion" would be wonderful if it actually focused on ideological diversity and being welcoming to others rather than being a system designed to produce people with different skin tones and t
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5087892/nasa-starliner-...
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
The constitution is not a suicide pact. If deporting millions of people without due process is authoritarianism, what is letting in millions of people without due process? Rules for thee but not for me?
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
It's hard to hear people complain about looting and authoritarianism after watching these same people calling BLM mostly peaceful protest, and had no problem with the authoritarian policies passed during the COVID lockdowns https:&#x2
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
It's like California paying more for homelessness each year and getting more homelessness each year
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
https://www.aei.org/economics/what-atms-bank-tellers-rise-ro... Well, the average bank branch in an urban area required about 21 tellers. That was cut because of the ATM machine to about 13 tellers. But that meant it w
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
I would have been more worried if I lived through 1939-1945, or the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kids going duck and cover under their desk. Nuclear exchange seemed inevitable. And yet the cold war never went hot. The experts of the 1960s didn&#x2
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https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/in-the-past-most-pe... We went from 50-70% of the population working in agriculture to 2-5%. Did over half the population remain permanently unemployed?
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
Do you want hard caps and redistribution on other things or just money? Like a redistribution of grades. The magna cum laude doesn't need another A+, and there's people at the bottom of the curve who's passing or failing coul
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
When I was growing up I knew a few families which worked in auto factories. They had multiple cars parked in their driveway. They could afford multiple kids. The ones I knew could afford to take vacations as well That's a level of cons
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-f-chapter-... Form DS-160, the Nonimmigrant Visa Application used by people applying to enter the U.S. on a temporary (non-immigrant) basis—like tourists, students, or
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
Foreign competitors is how you get competition usually. The big 3 auto companies can lobby Congress and discourage competition. When American Cars started installing tailfins (purely cosmetics) instead of competing on fuel performance, main
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by Whoppertime 1y ago
Looking at the labor force participation rate it seems like there is a lot of labor to work in the factories U-3, the official unemployment rate only includes people who were actively looking for a job in the last 4 weeks. Meaning if you&#x

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