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badgerexpat commented on the diary post Income Security For The 1%. by TomThumb.
Doesn’t the proposed Buffet Rule address your concern noted below: Low Capital Gains Taxes. Low capital gains taxes for income from investments are a form of unequal tax treatment of income. Current capital gains taxes are at a historical low. While a one event—low capital gains tax may benefit the lowly retiree who sells their [...]
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post Marriage Equality is Inevitable
Just speculation, but maybe that corresponds with a prior presidential election year when the issue was the subject of serious ad buys opposing marriage equality?
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post Nearly 30 years later
Seems a little strange to say that we’ve progressed past Bowers “no thanks to the supreme court” and not mention that the supreme court itself overruled Bowers in Lawrence v. Texas.
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post What Should Progressives Root For in the Sequestration Fight?
Supermajority or strategic decision by R’s not to filibuster. So we’ll get things like Hagel with <60 votes, but the CPFB and NLRB are shut down indefinitely.
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post What Should Progressives Root For in the Sequestration Fight?
Here’s a detailed (although overly biased imo) recap of the Court’s logic.
Definitely do not agree with the author’s tone or conclusions, but it does a pretty good job of describing (and a mediocre job of engaging) the court’s ruling.
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post What Should Progressives Root For in the Sequestration Fight?
Although, as currently interpreted, that only applies to vacancies that first “happen” during the Recess, right? So I don’t think it really applies to a total refusl by the senate to grant or withhold consent to appointments to fulfill vacancies that happen while the Senate is in session.
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post What Should Progressives Root For in the Sequestration Fight?
A more interesting question is whether the Senate is failing to fulfill its constitutional obligation to advise and consent to appointments, I’m not really aware of any cases or scholarship on this issue though.
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post What Should Progressives Root For in the Sequestration Fight?
No.
And I’m curious as to why you think no response is considered consent (you said assent, assume you meant consent). If I write you a letter saying I am going to assume you consent to me taking your car unless you respond saying otherwise, and you throw the letter in the garbage after reading it, are you saying I wouldn’t be committing theft if I showed up and took your car?
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post Arizona Won’t Build Its Own Health Care Exchange
Did they ever resolve the issue where, due to drafting error, it appeared that federal exchanges would not enjoy the same tax incentives as state established ones?
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badgerexpat commented on the diary post A Counter Narrative to Peterson’s by letsgetitdone.
Also, to the extent your response was meant to answer my question, I do not understand it at all.
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badgerexpat commented on the diary post A Counter Narrative to Peterson’s by letsgetitdone.
I asked a question, how can a question be “simply not true?”
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badgerexpat commented on the diary post A Counter Narrative to Peterson’s by letsgetitdone.
Is there a limit to how much money the government can create before it starts devaluing the currency?
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post Has Google Destroyed the 4th Estate?
No way is that chart right, it shows Google with 30 TRILLION dollars of revenue in 2011.
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post As Paul Ryan Lines Up Behind Rahm, the Scheme to Privatize Chicago Schools Becomes Clear
Um, one quibble; where’s the content in this article re “the Scheme to Privatize Chicago Schools Becomes Clear?” Did you hit publish too soon?
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post Decades of Evidence Subsidies Alone Should be Sufficient to Encourage Enrollment
Jon, doesn’t your analogy fail since it compares the old system in which persons could be denied coverage for preexisting conditions (and had a corresponding incentive to obtain coverage even if healthy) with the current system, in which people can obtain “insurance” even after developing serious illnesses?
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badgerexpat commented on the diary post Tell your state officials: Stand against ‘Shoot First’ laws by Rashad Robinson.
I don’t really see how the hold your ground law is relevant to the Zimmerman/Martin case. Either Zimmerman is telling the truth, in which case Martin attacked him and was pinning him to the ground and Zimmerman had no reasonable avenue of escape; or Zimmerman is lying, in which case he unjustifiably shot Martin when [...]
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post NATO to Occupy Chicago
Jesus, glad to see FDL is so supportive of the heckler’s veto.
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badgerexpat commented on the diary post Conflict Arises As Siegelman Case Inches Toward SCOTUS by RogerShuler.
Also, I think you are fundamentally misunderstading what “conflict” of interest means. John-Alex Romano is adverse to Siegelman in the litigation, and has adverse interests to him via his wife, there’s no conflict, he’s just doubly adverse. Obviously this would be a problem if John-Alex Romano was the judge, who is supposed to be impartial, [...]
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post The Failed American Voter Registration System
Well, to be fair, you make 8, and your inability to count elicited 9.
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badgerexpat commented on the blog post The Failed American Voter Registration System
“And the assumption that anyone convicted of a crime at any point in their lives should be stripped of all of their rights as a citizen for the future is still sadly an unchallenged belief.”
This sentence is such ridiculous hyperbole. Generally excellent post, what made you to decide to end it with garbage?
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