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by opo 5y ago
>( 72% used to, now only 46% do. per my link) They are referring to the typical small increase in minimum wage that has been done for the last few decades. You seem to hold very very strong views for someone who found a press release. &
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by opo 5y ago
From your link it says the top 10% received 47.7% of gross income but paid 71.4% of total income taxes paid. Why do you think that if they receive 47.7%, they should pay 90% of the taxes?
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by opo 5y ago
Please don't misrepresent what I wrote - that is arguing in bad faith. You simply wrote "Minimum wage increase do not increase unemployment." I pointed out "Small changes in the minimum wage will have minimal changes in
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by opo 5y ago
You misunderstood what I wrote. I wrote "Small changes in the minimum wage will have minimal changes in short term total unemployment" If any given minimum wage rate would have no effect on employment levels, than we would simply
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by opo 5y ago
>...Minimum wage increase do not increase unemployment. We have almost a century of data. It's always trumpeted by the wealthy, but never happens. Small changes in the minimum wage will have minimal changes in short term total unemp
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by opo 5y ago
>The feds sets the prime rate... Just to clarify, the Fed doesn't directly set the prime rate, though it does have influence on it: >...Although the Federal Reserve has no direct role in setting the prime rate, many banks choose
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by opo 5y ago
>There are always passive safety systems, Chernobyl and Fukushima had too. The Chernobyl plant was such a dangerous enough design that it would have been illegal to build it anywhere except the Soviet Union. There were many screwups at F
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by opo 5y ago
The most common forms of high fructose corn syrup are HFCS-42 and HFCS-55. HFCS-42 has 42 percent fructose and HFCS-55 has 55 percent fructose, with the remaining sugars being primarily glucose. As a comparison, common table sugar (sucrose
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by opo 5y ago
>...Summarizing them here will make me an advocate. In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can be recycled (as it is in France) which would reduce the amount of waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactiv
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by opo 5y ago
>Big time the loser there is the environment for literally any bovine farming. Factory farming probably does cause externalities that aren't addressed. People could choose to buy from grocers who only source from smaller farms but
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by opo 5y ago
>...the very nature of profit/capitalistic societies means someone has to lose The last time you bought milk did you lose or did the grocery store? The last time you paid money for a hair cut, who lost there? The extreme regulation
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by opo 5y ago
Cost should always be a consideration, but when you see people conveniently ignore some costs and focus on others, it does a disservice to the goal of decarbonizing the grid and it isn't clear what they are really trying to accomplish.
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by opo 5y ago
>Half as much damage as coal is a pretty low bar! Natural gas also meets it, for example. Natural gas has advantages over coal, but if we are talking about effects on climate change, natural gas is unfortunately comparable to using coal.
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by opo 5y ago
>... the reality was that the coffee was exceptionally hot for decontamination convenience It sounds like that might not be accurate: >...In 1994, a spokesman for the National Coffee Association said that the temperature of McDonald&#
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by opo 5y ago
You are moving the goal posts. The original post said: >...In a world without "government interference" you wouldn't have leave, you'd work every day of the week, and you'd work 12+ hours a day. The claim is tha
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by opo 5y ago
In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can be recycled (as it is in France) which would reduce the amount of waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste Soon it will be possible to use most of the wa
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by opo 5y ago
>In a world without "government interference" you wouldn't have leave, you'd work every day of the week, and you'd work 12+ hours a day. If this were true, none of us would be earning more than the minimum wage.
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by opo 5y ago
>...Let's not even get into the fact that Capital gains tax is at its lowest ever, No it is not. The lowest capital gains rates were 12.5% and even 10 years ago it was 15%. >...and at one point capital gains for top earners was
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by opo 5y ago
>...I think in Nordic countries (where I am from) have shown that relatively low levels of inequality ... None of the Nordic countries have very low wealth inequality and both Denmark and Sweden are in the top 10 for wealth inequality. H
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by opo 5y ago
>>...There is a reason we let people keep the wealth they build. >You should try visiting the Scandinavian hellholes... It is misleading to group all of the Scandinavian countries together in terms of wealth inequality. Here are th
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by opo 5y ago
The Taliban were not part of the groups that fought against the Soviet occupation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
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by opo 5y ago
>US citizens' desire to fight in WW2 perhaps largely came from propaganda to begin with - maybe in the absence of propaganda most of them would have been fine with doing nothing to help Britain, France, etc. The attack on Pearl Harb
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by opo 5y ago
>..so was the top carmaker entering bankruptcy with all of those employees and pensions on their books. Biggest bankruptcy of that sort since the depression. Precedent isn't a suicide pact, when things get weird then people can adap
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by opo 5y ago
People were upset because of how the secured debt was treated Some analysis here: >...Secured debt takes first priority in payment; it is also typically preserved during bankruptcy under what is referred to as the "absolute priorit
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by opo 5y ago
>Germany is absolutely a great example, ... Coal mining is dangerous/destructive, burning coal is poisoning the oceans and has killed many, many people. For example, an estimate is that over 20,000 deaths are caused per year due to
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by opo 5y ago
>...but the automation / negative outcomes of menial labor being too expensive to hire for will happen whether or not the official minimum wage is increased. This is true, but obviously the rate at which this happens will matter. In
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>...The US gained its advantage during the 40s-70s, when the government sector was a much larger percentage of the economy. The government sector is larger now than pretty much anytime since the end of WW II. The US gained its advantage
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by opo 5y ago
>...most rich people have a far higher IQ than Hollywood actors. Not surprisingly, back when marginal rates were so high, rich Hollywood actors also hired CPAs to avoid giving 90+ percent of their income to those in power. The previous d
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by opo 5y ago
>This is kind of all over the place and riddled with non-sequiters; Blanket dismissals aren't helpful. As the guidelines state: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critica
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by opo 5y ago
>...Actually labour is like $0.15 cents of it Where are you getting that number from? >...A fast-food restaurant could typically run labor costs around 25% while a full service restaurant could run about 30-40% of revenue depending on

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