zeke5123a
11mo ago
I wasn’t making a policy point about comparing blue collar to white collar but a political point.
The only policy point I would make is that I frequently find low paid white collar jobs anti productive (eg activist type jobs).
zeke5123a
11mo ago
I don’t think either has a big interaction with the system. But there is a point that this is targeted a bit more to help blue workers / less to help poor white collar worker and is harder to accrue the benefit to the corporation.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
On your W-2 they would just create a new box that says untaxed OT earnings. When you go on turbo tax, it will ask what number is in box 15. You input that. Pretty simple.
EITC has the problem that it can reduce wages. In contrast this proposal only increases the benefit for working OT; not the baseline wage. So might be harder for the employer to capture the benefit of the tax break.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Are you sure tackling isn’t reasonably likely to result in serious injury where concrete is concerned?
Context also matters. I am reminded of Bernie G. The miscreants were menacing and the implied next step was reasonable to infer. Same here where a dude decides to run through traffic and tackle you. There isn’t a ref blowing the whistle.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Hamas isn’t an individual. It is the government of the Palestinian state. When people say “the US or Israel did X” do they mean the government, the nation, or the people?
zeke5123a
11mo ago
True. Facts could be otherwise. Always true. But based on what we know right now it doesn’t look great.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Yeah pretty much. It’s frustrating. If Tomlin could pair an average offensive with this defense they’d be a contender. But Tomlin’s preferred strategy is to minimize mistakes on offense meaning you will never have an average performance. It also puts a lot more strain on the defense.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Let’s change the facts. Let’s say like Han Solo pro Palestinian guy shot first but unlike Solo he missed. Mr Hayes wouldn’t have been injured and Bad Solo would’ve been when Hayes returned fire. That fact though wouldnt queer Hayes self defense.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
You aren’t responding to anyone’s specific claims. Would an objective person reasonably fear serious bodily injury when a guy runs through traffic to tackle them? That’s such aggressive odd behavior to start with that I would say in the seconds afterwards (especially given there is a delay of a second or two to draw your gun and shoot) a reasonable person would fear serious bodily injury.
Bringing up unrelated cases with zero background (outside of telling us the shooters are black) just seems like an attempt to say “you wouldn’t support the black kids so you can’t support this guy without being a bigot.” Maybe I would support the black kids. Maybe I also don’t think you are reasonable about what reasonable.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Render unto Caesar doesn’t seem to say anything about the optimal tax policy; instead it seems to say don’t be a tax cheat.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Sure he has moments. But he isn’t a decent passer and will turnover the ball. He had a C+ performance. Okay. But not great.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
My favorite Browns star is that until very recently the QB with the most wins at Browns stadium was…Big Ben. Baker narrowly edged him out. The Browns have played something like 180 games there (and Ben much much less). Almost impossible to fathom.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Yeah agree that’s a possibility (maybe even reality). On the other hand, Wilson had good TD to interceptions numbers suggesting he might not be cooked (or that might be fluke). The upside of Wilson is probably higher than Fields but the fit is probably better with Fields.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
My Stillers have an interesting QB dilemma. Do they go with Fields or Wilson? It probably doesn’t matter (Tomlin wants to run a cave man offense). I think you go with Wilson if healthy (I think Fields is probably at best a homeless man’s LJ). Any takers?
zeke5123a
11mo ago
And to me the answer when I see murder isn’t “let’s do something that won’t reduce murder” but “let me do what I can to reduce the number of murders.”
So I take wins where I can get them and then try to work on changing hearts and minds.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
It is funny. Trump let Kamala get away with it. The moderators asked her about flip flopping. She said nothing and then just said Trump rallies suck. He spent most of his time going off about how his rallies are awesome.
The right answer would be: notice how she couldn’t explain her position? I’ll give up my time because I want to hear how she changed so radically in such a short period of time.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
OpenAI has a 100b valuation per latest funding rounds.
To me that suggests:
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They don’t think they can build a moat, OR
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The technology is plateauing.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
It also doesn’t mean they are here legally. They may be judged to be here illegally in the end.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
I think you are generally unfair to Trump but this is spot on. Dude couldn’t shut up and saved Biden numerous times.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Yeah hammer home they are people like Cheney and it was a regret you (ie Trump) had in first admin. Then note the turnover Harris has in her office but note it wasn’t political but personal. Recount the story about how she made the intern stand when she walked into the office whilst being California AG.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
zeke5123a
11mo ago
He also speaks in the most boring slow “I’m saying something profound” way.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
My guess is she doesn’t have a big following amongst normie suburbanites one way or the other. But she has some Rogan cache. The endorsement doesn’t move a lot either way but helps create positive news / momentum / probably very much on the margin.
The RFK Jr one may matter. If he can get 60% of his block to vote for Trump that’s a 1% net boost. Question is whether it has negative effects but he may be a “crank” but at the same time he is associated with the left and is talking about historic left issues (eg anti war, pro free speech). It is a bit hard to reconcile that with an authoritarian Trump. So it shows that while Trump might be a bit weird, he is t the threat the Dems keep making him out to be.
Because we have an income tax; not a takings
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