alaxhn

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by alaxhn 2y ago
Government (local, federal, state) spending as a percentage of GDP is 34% and as a total amount is 6.75 trillion. According to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_the_num... there are ~756 bi
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by alaxhn 2y ago
Can you please be more clear on what is being looted in your view? I can see how a lot of money can be made from having the government fund a project that you benefit from. For example DOGE uncovered that Senator Lindsey Graham sits on the
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by alaxhn 2y ago
So you don't think being forced to include a statement on diversity in every single grant request reviewed by the NIH was "injecting dumb politics" but you do think that being forced to NOT include a statement on diversity in
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by alaxhn 2y ago
I think the claim here is that more actual human suffering is coming out of the status quo which we think needs to be fixed with fairly drastic action. The Mexican cartels for example do provide aid in predominantly poor parts of the countr
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by alaxhn 2y ago
DOGE did feature prominently in the campaigning and some of us did vote for the full package primarily holding our nose on other parts of the campaign that we were not happy with specifically because we wanted to see this happen. "that
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by alaxhn 2y ago
Anyone with gains on stocks who makes $250k (200k single) and sells shares at a capital gain pays NIIT. This has been the case since 2013 and the threshold is not indexed to inflation. I would guess a significant fraction of commenters here
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by alaxhn 2y ago
Ok, I'll bite. Your thesis is that we are having poor educational outcomes due to poor funding of schools. Based on the latest numbers I could find, funding per pupil was $15,591 in 2022. Because of "cost disease", I would hy
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by alaxhn 2y ago
I'm not completely convinced Lina Khan would be out if Trump wins. JD Vance has mentioned support for her by name on several occasions.
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by alaxhn 2y ago
I am going to argue slightly on your wording although I fully acknowledge the numbers do line up with your timeline. RE the budget surplus, the dotcom boom led to a large increase in taxes collected which collapsed from 2000 to 2003. Simila
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by alaxhn 2y ago
My fast food experience * Worked ~9 months at a dunkin donuts * Start of shift generally 4 a.m. * End of shift generally 1 p.m. * 7 days per week although Sunday would only work 3 hr - this was because my boss could provide much more compen