@JoeTheNiteOwl@_motherslug My eras of pop culture include the decades of the 1980s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, and some 2020s (but less connected in this most recent decade because of living out of the USA for some years)
@brivael@ann_mcnitt Two things:
1. The classroom experiment you described is not socialism, and is not the way socialism works.
2. An imagined classroom with 30 students is not a nation or state with 10s or 100s of millions of people.
@johnhawkinsrwn 11%, 16% , and 26% tax rates are EXTREMELY low. Raising these each by 15% to 25%, 30%, and 40% would generate huge (nearly double) tax revenue.
And, yes reduce spending by cutting the defense and military contractor budgets in half.
@mattnahigian 1. These two teams are the best, most talented teams; they won the most regular season games in the NL and AL.
2. These two teams continued to play consistently well in the playoffs.
@JoeTheNiteOwl@_motherslug I’d never heard of it, so I did some reading about it. It looks like it was popular for young people, winning MTV awards, and popular in Japan.
@SamOlbur I hope (for the sake of anyone he hits, damages, or injures) he’s insured with a non-owner car insurance policy or has car-owner insurance that covers him in another car.
@nathand_12 Yeah, that’s kinda the way sports work: Extremely skilled and highly trained people on the field or court, all doing the best they can in the brief moments of super high speed action.
@madeleineebaker Is it because she’s unfamiliar with baseball terminology? So she doesn’t understand the clever misdirection? Or just because she’s lying? Because she’s liar.
@JL60015@Rexmsmq@WalshFreedom Lower taxes on middle & everyone below median income. Raise taxes on the wealthiest 25% and raise property, investment income & corporate wealth tax.
In the US, military & defense contracts are ~ 50% of non-social insurance budget. Cut that in half, overall expenses drop 25%
@Rexmsmq@WalshFreedom Government revenue comes from taxes and fees for services.
Fees are regressive, taking higher percentage from people with lower income.
Taxes can be progressive and raise much more revenue, by taxing wealthy individuals and businesses high percentages
@Thefrugalgay11 How long did you have to search for a 700 sq ft house, for sale for less than $50K in a city people would want to live? There are likely only a hundred or so of these houses in the entire USA.