Steven Sprick Schuster

Associate Professor of Economics, @MTSU. member of @PERIatMTSU. Formerly @colgateECON. I study economic history, the postal service, and weird aspects of voting

[Steven Sprick Schuster @ssprickschuster]

Some professional news: this Fall I'll be a Visiting Professor in the School of Economics at @UniKent

I'm excited to work alongside some great social scientists. Thanks to @MTSU for making it possible

If you're in England or Europe, hit me up. I'm making travel plans

[Steven Sprick Schuster @ssprickschuster]

@VolGov53 The is literally a common argument that was made to support slavery in the South

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@VolGov53 @gpork That's not how value generation works. Could you imagine if I said "farmer's don't generate value. Grocery shoppers do"?

The value is create via the good. It would have value if the buyers exist or not

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This is incredibly gross. DeSantis knows this is misinformation

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

California keeps dumping votes. Odds are shifting because the vote dumps always seem to go one way.

Count until you get the result you want?

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@NancyMace One issue among many is that that seniors who rent would pay the tax (as it would be paid by the landlord and incorporated into the rent) but homeowners wouldn't

So this should read "All seniors should pay property taxes, except those who are wealthy enough to be homeowners"

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@ScoringChanges Huh. Thanks for the knowledge. I had no idea

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@ScoringChanges Here's what confusing me. "If a fair fly ball is deflected in flight by a fielder and then goes out of the playing field in flight over fair territory, it is a home run."
But a home run is not an error, right? Can it be both?

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@ScoringChanges I understand the logic of seeing it as an error, but how do you decide after the fact to rule it an error when doing so would have meant the batter should end up on 2nd?

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@ScoringChanges I don't get this. If it was ruled an error in the moment, wouldn't the two-base award applied? if the only reason the batter scored is BECAUSE the umps ruled it a home run, I don't follow the logic of changing the ruling later

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@TripleNetTyler CA has election day registration. Here's a plausible, leagal scenario:
1) Person wants to vote in LA election because they live there
2) Realizes they have not updated their address
3) They re-register using current address
4) Registration is validated, and thrown out if invalid

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@morelikemensa This just reflects the long-held assumption that you needed to usenvaluable cap space on an aging superstar. All contenders did it, so champs did it, too. Correlation is not causation. Replace Shaq with Marcus Camby (who made half as much $$), and the Heat maybe would have swept

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@RefinedPopulist Fine, then make home sales subject to capital gains taxes, even for primary homes. If your argument is that homes are things that you own free and clear just like any other asset, then tax it like any other asset.

Which would be a shame, because capital gains taxes are worse

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@JDevilSports @greg_price11 But that's her point. It's an easy question to answer if you're even a nominal fan by saying "they didn't win", but she's suggesting that Trump wouldn't be able to do that

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@bethanyshondark Agree with the stuggle. For one, internet-connected tablets make the bar for danger much lower, in ways that were unconcievable when we were children.

To keep the level of safety the same as it was 30 years ago, oversight needs to be greater

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@bttldog @RobertGKepes @Annakhait Totally got it. I think I misread it. I also don't think creationism makes a lick of sense

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I guess we pick and choose the battles to have here. The whole movie is performed in a language that wouldn't be developed until 1,500 years after the events of the movie. You'd think that would be a much bigger issue, but....crickets

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This is a real frame of Helen of Troy from Nolan's Odyssey (I just enhanced it with Grok to see it better). This is absolutely ridiculous, disrespectful, embarrassing. Wth is this??? An insult to audience intelligence, to Greek culture, This is trash!!!!! "White-armed" Helen??? I'm pissed....

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@BobMurphyEcon Because the complexity has nothing to do with it: that's a red herring. ChatGPT can produce infinitely more complex language than my dog. It does not follow that "because my dog has a mind, ChatGPT has a mind"

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@travisakers Then they also shouldn't have them during Shabbat. That elliminates all weekend, since there's literally no daylight hour on Sunday that isn't "chuch hours" somewhere.

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@DrScotMSullivan Therefore, to claim that "God does exist" means that it is impossible for God to not exist.

And by this logive, to claim "it is impossible for God to not exist" is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence.

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I think they are both bad ideas

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This is very similar to Florida's "abolition" of property taxes in the sense that both tax second homes more than primary homes. But it will be interesting how the two policies are covered differently.
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