moorhosj

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by moorhosj 8y ago
==NYC is one of the few (like 2, maybe 3) America cities with an actual usable rail system== Interested to hear what the other cities are. Chicago? San Fran?
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The Tienanmen Square protests weren't very violent for the party leaders, same can't be said for the protesters.
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Luckily for their leaders, they don't need to worry about elections.
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Odd that you only mention federal income taxes, there are a bunch of other taxes that people pay (payroll, sales, excise and property to name some).
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Or those who require zero government services. Your implication is that lowering taxes would have no impact on the services people receive. Does that seem right?
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==Large companies can choose which country they are taxed in just like you and I can choose which market we shop at. If your preferred market decides to raise prices while another decides to lower them, this would not be considered a loopho
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But my family all lives in the US, not in some other country. Knowing that, I will work to make this system better instead of bailing on the people I love. Don't take it personally when someone criticizes their government, that's
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==On some level, perhaps people read too much into neighborhoods.== I think this is part of the argument the article is making. People who buy real estate put an emphasis on the neighborhood, thus realtors have an incentive to create "
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The city has boundaries for neighborhoods too [1], they just aren't "official" like the Community Areas. [1] https://data.cityofchicago.org/browse?q=neighborhoods&sortBy...
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And yet, many European countries have higher entrepreneurship rates than the US. [1] [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/think-w...
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==Instead, a bunch of MBAs want to rule the world by focusing on growth at all costs== How does Paul Graham explicitly stating "Startup = Growth" fit into this box? Remind me where Mark Zuckerberg got his MBA.
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==This fact, combined with Finland's well-known social safety nets leads to the obvious conclusion that you would be hard pressed to find living conditions like those in the slums of Akron/Cleveland in Finland.== Isn't it pos
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==Using Finland as an example is absurd. Finland has a very wealthy, very homogeneous population.== Finland is 21% less wealthy than America on a per capita basis. Finland GDP per capita - $35,964.77 US GDP per capita - $45,759.46 - http:&#
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They also have policies in place to support parents at the beginning of a child's life (i.e. the most important developmental phase of life). They also have a lower GDP per capita and somehow still afford all of these benefits that we
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More proof of how far down the list of priorities Americans place education.
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==It sure would be nice if Facebook would come out and clearly say that these bad actors are clearly non-partisan, and are simply trying to cause civil unrest in the US by agitating both sides of the political spectrum.== Both of these can
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This seems like a criticism that could be used against almost all products. I continually vet my grocery store's products by ingesting them.
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Users declined in Europe which is their second highest revenue/user geography. Their future revenue targets were also revised lower (i.e. declined).
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>The labor force participation rate is currently about 62.8%. In 2013, it was at most about 63.8%, only 1 percent higher This 1% difference works out to 1.6 million fewer people in the laborforce, that is a problem. Especially, when I ke
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>Economists believe that the unemployment rate can dip even further because there's still slack in the job market. There isn't "still" slack, the slack is growing as the laborforce participation rate is lower today th
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Lowest unemployment rate since 1969 [1] coupled with negative real wage growth [2] is an indicator that our current ideology (low taxes, limited regulation) is broken. [1] https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/01/news
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“I'll take my country life as a remote worker going on 8 years. Trees, forest, wildlife, fresh air, backyards. 5 minutes walk or 1 minute drive to a shop for groceries, hardware, lumber, restaurants, kid parks.” My neighborhood in Chic
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It's not just Senators, plenty of Constitutional experts disagree with you as well: https://www.vox.com/iraq-crisis/2014/9/12/6134159/is-obamas-... It's interesting how you dismiss things
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Please elaborate on why we should consider that belief false? Plenty of Senators disagree with you.
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Your examples all occurred after we suspended individual liberties and spent untold fortunes and lives to stop it. Would you conclude that to be a successful strategy?
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Not necessarily. If the owners of the tech and the robber barons are the same people, that is a concern.
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==Taking Gini coefficient into consideration, China still has a long way to go.== So does the US [1]: The top 1 percent of earners in America now take home about 20 percent of the country’s pretax national income, compared with less than 12
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Pew found a 35% decline in reporters covering statehouses from 2003 to 2014. This is a scary lack of information for voters and watchdogs. http://www.journalism.org/2014/07/10/americas-shifting-state... ==Les
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I never said they were the same. In this case, the President is using fascist techniques (nationalism, militarism, suppression of opposition, theatrics, purging the disloyal or RINO's, cult of personality) in order to implement a pro-c
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==The definition of fascism according to webster: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government head

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