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Seems like the Russians expected the Ukrainians to surrender quickly and they didn't at all. So now they're like, "Now what?"

It's like mid to high 20s. And it's lower than basically all the other wealthiest countries, and much lower than most of them. https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/en/data-insights/tax-to-gdp-ratios https://www.visualcapitalist.com/comparing-tax-systems-around-the-world/

It wasn't an appeal to popularity as if I was appealing to their opinion, it was an appeal to the fact of the matter. They all appear to be OK, with tax burdens significantly higher than ours is. OK. OK. If we basically slash our tax burden down from 35% to 5% our revenues will drop by like...

What's the day when we celebrate the Dems telling Repubs to stop Reconstruction so they could go make all the racist laws that MLK got shot trying to repeal?

They're all trying to get reelected.

Yes.

It's like 35%. Other countries are like 45-55%.

There's a strong statistical correlation between men who identify as homosexual and being raped as a boy. It doesn't explain it all, there are plenty who were never raped as boys, but there is a strong statistical link between being raped by a man as a boy, and turning out as a homosexual man...

American racists after they couldn't have slavery anymore and as soon as the North withdrew federal occupying forces in 1877 made every law imaginable to torture Black Americans and those laws stood until the 1960s Civil Rights movement. They went so far as to say which seats Blacks could and...

People in every other 'developed' country disagree and they all appear to be doing OK. They all have far heavier tax burdens than Americans do. "If", yes, but see above. We aren't at that tax burden yet. I'm not saying we want to actually 'get there', or even approach it, not without at...

Looks like the inevitable outcome that matters though is that Repubs are going to win some seats in the fall.

They being President Trump and him only. His party has disavowed his claims of irregularities which allegedly affected the outcome of the election. These irregularities might have affected the election more than Russian interference affected the election in 2016, but in both cases, neither of...

Speaking of which, you can deadlift barefoot. I don't do it myself, but a lot of people like to deadlift with bare feet. The deadlift really works the back when done well. For your legs, the squat is a better exercise. But for me the deadlift is the best lift to learn, when you do start to...

I stand corrected (and embarrassed): Increasing the tax burden will lower the debt all other things being equal.

President Trump never struck me as dishonest. Just secretive. Which I respect. What's that proverb? Oh yeah. " Sometimes, “ It is the glory of God to conceal a thing” Proverbs 25:2. Sometimes, “ A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.”...

Editorial page in the WSJ is 100% Republican. Apart from Supreme Court justices the WSJ opinions and editorials are peak Republican ideological theory and thought.

No. The market is very competitive and efficient. When retailers need more volume they'll adjust prices in time. In the meantime people are acting a little irrational at the pumps now anyway, it's not exactly pressure right now coming from gasoline consumers, we're all just filling up...

It's really philosophy* is what you're saying, and I agree 100%. The matters of science that are argued on TOL are not really matters of science, they are matters of philosophy**. * I actually have ethics as the 'umbrella' discipline but that's 'neither here nor there'. ** Including rhetoric...

Exactly right Marke. @JudgeRightly introduced me to the fact (that was always right in front my face!) that the 'perfect' conditions for abiogenesis is already plentiful----we call them "corpses". And we all know what has NEVER happened! RESURRECTION.* * Exception proves the rule.

Increasing the tax burden will lower the debt. This can be achieved through economic growth, which is Republican, and through economic growth plus increasing tax 'rates', which is Democratic. America has the lowest tax burden of any of the world's 'developed' economies (and it's not close), so...