Popular until companies pass those cost on which taxes are and that leads to inflation, then it becomes unpopular again if we learned one thing in 2024 then that the public really, really, really hates inflation to a degree that even surprised me.
Personally, I oppose any tax rate over 50% combined state and federal on any kind of income, on moral grounds. Nobody has a greater right to a share of my income than I do. I don’t understand why that’s such a hard principle to grasp.
Oh please, they tried to push the Jews out of the Middle East, they were just really bad at fighting, so Israel took their territory, the West Bank and Gaza among it.
What are you even talking about we are talking about the occupation of the West Bank after numerous Arab nations tried to get rid of Israel and got their asses handed to them that's why Israel occupies them that predates October 7 by decades.
Why would it? Occupying a territory gained in a war you were forced into and annexing it are two different things. The first is standard procedure, the second is what’s problematic.
Because if they haven’t learned to read by that age, something is amiss, and someone other than their teachers who clearly haven’t fixed the situation should probably know about it.
And here’s where a lot of people disagree. They think having nearly 5% of the population here illegally is a very bad thing. Like I said before, I don’t agree, I actually prefer having an economic underclass for wage pressure reasons alone. But many of my family and friends see it differently.
It wouldn’t have even affected right-wing radio, since the Fairness Doctrine had nothing to do with the rise of talk radio. It didn’t require equal time or a 50/50 balance — any token effort to represent an opposing view was enough to satisfy the rule.
That’s not how the Fairness Doctrine worked. If they gave some left-wing jockey a 30-minute show on Sunday between 3:30 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. as a counterpoint, that would have been more than enough to satisfy the Fairness Doctrine.
Don’t focus strictly on heavy industry. Look at the likes of Carl Zeiss, AEG, Siemens, Schott AG, KWS Saat, BMW’s large operations, Knorr-Bremse, Telefunken, Leitz, and Agfa. They were all based in the East or had major operations there, they were just smart enough to flee west.
Sorry, but that wasn’t true before or even during the war, it only became so after the Soviets carted everything off. And it’s not just the GDR, it’s the whole Eastern Bloc, it’s Cuba, it’s Venezuela. As soon as a country goes socialist, it turns to shit.
I mean, to be fair, the Maduro regime is the main reason there are almost as many Venezuelans living outside Venezuela as inside it. I don’t trust Trump to handle it competently, but there is a case to be made that removing that regime could lead to less immigration.
Again, I’m against mass deportations mostly because of economic reasons. But if they do happen, detention facilities should be humane and adequate, and only temporary. If deportations are carried out, they should happen very quickly, ideally within 48 hours after arrest.
