moorhosj

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by moorhosj 9y ago
Can you explain your false equivalency a little better, I'm not sure I follow?
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by moorhosj 9y ago
==It just seems that this whole thing was conjured up to explain an event that didn't need explaining.== It might seem like this if you ignore lots of facts. Comey started the investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016. Hillary
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by moorhosj 9y ago
==If you say that your environmental regulation actually made people healthier then you'd better be able to point to the dropping health insurance rates.== Of course the rest of the world doesn't exist in a vacuum, which makes a s
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by moorhosj 9y ago
This is the same argument made against any environmental regulation. The governments report released the other day showed us those often have a net benefit to society.
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Does Portugal have taxes?
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by moorhosj 9y ago
“I don’t like to be put in a box and labeled. To prove I’m right, I’ll put a bunch of other people in a box and label them.”
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by moorhosj 9y ago
I think you have a point here with Chicago. It may because no single industry dominates the economy like in Silicon Valley (tech), NYC (finance), LA (entertainment) or Cambridge (education). To me, the caricatures described in the post are
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Oddly, I didn’t find any of that nuance or context in your original comment. You presented absolutes and the data proved you wrong. Maybe the population has grown by more than 10% in 2.5 years like food service employment. At the same time,
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by moorhosj 9y ago
You keep ignoring the primary point in order to argue semantics. Laws impact the economics of businesses operation, no matter how you define a business. The data tells us that our laws are maximizing wages for a small subset of the populati
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Meanwhile, Seattle Food Services and Drinking employment is at an all-time high. April 1, 2015 - 135,100 employed December 2017 - 149,600 employed https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMU53426607072200001SA
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Legal definitions drive economic reality, the results of which we are discussing in this thread. What is the tax rate other than an "arbitrary legal definition"? I consider my education an investment, by your logic that makes it a
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Is the inverse of this not true? Are non-US companies doing more of their business in the US?
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Even more proof that wages should be rising as the labor market thins out and the economy grows.
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by moorhosj 9y ago
What are you suggesting those consequences would be?
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by moorhosj 9y ago
I am not incorporated as a business and the guy painting my garage is not my employee. Otherwise, a spot on analogy.
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Can you explain what "damage" it might cause? Giving labor a seat on the board seems like a logical, small step in this direction. Maybe a lower tax rate for Employee Owned Companies (ESOP's) would incentivize owners to sprea
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Meanwhile, corporate profits as % of GDP are historically high: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=fPLQ
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by moorhosj 9y ago
I largely agree with you, it was more of a question for those who believe labor economics should act like traditional market economics. You have pointed out the key difference as there isn't perfect information in labor economics like
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Even so, the problem outlined isn't after-tax earnings, it is wages. Lower tax rates don't solve that fundamental economic issue. In the past twelve months, the unemployment rate has fallen, from 4.8% to 4.1%. Meanwhile, the labor
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Could you expand on your point? I'm not really following the answering of one question with another question.
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by moorhosj 9y ago
This paper finds that the change in wage distribution in the US over the past 40 years has been more similar to China than France. This implies policy may be playing a large factor. How many times has the highest tax rate been cut in the pa
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by moorhosj 9y ago
==In this case, it might be better to actually have somebody with more balanced approach.== Do you have evidence that these texts ever had an impact on this agent's approach? Or are you just speculating to fog the entire discussion? Di
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Flynn, a very high ranking administration member, plead guilty to lying to the FBI about his communication with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislak. This crime happened while Trump was in office ( https://www.usatoday.com/story&
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by moorhosj 9y ago
==Strzok messages showed pretty clearly where his loyalties lie.== They showed that he supported John Kasich. Your comment, however, shows pretty clearly where your loyalties lie.
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by moorhosj 9y ago
==people who are hoping that there will be a wave of indictments against the current administration are going to be severely disappointed.== We have already seen someone within his administration get indicted (Flynn). Then we saw that perso
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by moorhosj 9y ago
What point are you trying to make here? That the public only cares because the interference was successful and may have influenced the outcome? Seems to me like something the public should care about.
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Almost as big of a leap as putting something that was never said in quotes.
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Why would DOJ and FBI leaders appointed directly by Trump try to get him impeached?
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by moorhosj 9y ago
I’ve never heard of people being indicted as part of a grieving process. Isn’t it also possible that a bunch of people broke the law? If yes, then we should make sure to investigate that.
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Is it possible that for some women the first weeks on campus they were made to feel like potential rape victims?

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