Recent content by Tardis

US has 5% of the world population and 30% of the worlds wealth, 42% of the worlds guns, 17% of the worlds top 1,500 universities. Belgium has 0.15% of the population but 0.84% of the deaths. These all statistically mean nothing and are neither causal or correlated. The only things that have...

Another big issue with the way Fauci and CDC keep pushing the new normal or wait until 2022 is how much it hurts the push for vaccination. If one can't return to normal or go maskless after the vaccine what's the incentive. From minorities to the elderly, across the political spectrum, there is...

But we are paying for the social safety nets and extra government services regardless. Right now, its a large police force with budgets driven mostly by pensions, enforcing laws through violence and locking people up. Some offenders will get rehab and recovery services and other won't, a...

No MSM has endorsed legalizing drugs. The only media that has easier either far left or Libertarian. Vice on the left and Reason Magazine on the Libertarian are about as close to Mainstream that has actually had any real sustained support for ending the War on Drugs. And yes most people are...

Yes, a government that open murders its citizen for non-violent offenses should be the example to follow. And a government under heavy influence from the Chinese Communist party can be trusted to not lie about their numbers. Or you know you could be like Portugal and treat people with respect...

The OP was complaining about Private schools "bribing" politicians for more money. Which is true, and even more so for public schools. You also missed where the words were changed in the quote to reflect public school language.

Correct. No Freudian slip, its just mind-boggling that within a decade we gone from arguing over billon dollar budgets and stimulus in the Bush and Obama administrations to seeing Biden considered the centrist because his budgets are still only in the 13 figure numbers. The sheer size of these...

The exact same thing can be said of public schools. Money isn't the problem. A one-size fits all model based on a 19th German socialist social programs hasn't adapted to the modern world, public or private. Private schools advantage is that they have more parents who care not that they have more...

Yeah, it seems if anecdotally every day there is a new article about private schools seeing a rise at the expense of public school enrollment. Seems that it might be in larger, metropolitan areas, which are more likely to be closed, we are seeing a big switch from public to private. With...

After a Trump budget of 5.4 trillion and Biden proposing 1.9 Trillon as first step stimulus to his budget it's clear no politician actually cares about long-term fiscal responsibility. The nature of politics is only to focus on the immediate short-term gains that help politicians get elected...

They are not going to. Big Business always welcomes regulation because it favors the status quo. Regulatory capture is always inevitable, no doubt the advisors or lobbyists who will actually shape any bill, or more likely, department regulation will come from the big businesses. The "experts"...

When originally proposed the federal income tax was only on the top 1%. Giving the government that kind of power will only eventually lead it to be expanded. Pretty sure this type of tax is unconstitutional anyways. The effectiveness of these types of tax is pretty weak as well. Most countries...

Because people making under $40,000 a year are the ones most likely to bear the biggest burden of the economic impact of raising the minimum wage. A small percentage will now make a little bit more and at the expense of a larger percentage of those who no longer have a job opportunity. This is...

This is a not an issue and just a petty partisan squabble that was only ever made an issue because Trump idolized Andrew Jackson. The real discussion should be removing all persons or at least politicians/ government officials from money. It only serves to further the idolization of people and...

While Trump can take blame from a PR standpoint, the absolute failures of the CDC are abundant and symptom of bureaucracy and the stubbornness of entrenched science. The incompetency at the CDC was made super obvious before the pandemic when the CDC went all out against all forms of vaping being...