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by hackuser 9y ago
Thanks. The gross numbers depend on far more than tax policy; I'm not sure how meaningful they are. The economy tends to grow no matter what the policy, and remember that the US was coming out of what was, at that time, the worst reces
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> it is very apparent that the current tax rate is determining their behavior That isn't necessarily true. It could be due to other laws, such as the one that allows them to stash money overseas tax-free. Perhaps that's the law
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IIRC, the overall US corporate tax burden is one of the lowest. The idea that it's so hard on corporations is, AFAIK, a talking point of corporate lobbyists. I'm open to any actual evidence, however. Even "double taxation&quo
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Personal consumption is the leading 'driver' (or one of them) of the U.S. economy. I also don't see the distinction: Why shouldn't corporations pay their share, and why should private citizens have to pay more to cover i
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It's a great, lifelong disservice to these students to focus on jobs and especially initial job skills. Life is so much more than your career, and your initial job is usually the most meaningless of your career. They should spend 4 yea
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Is there evidence of this? Tax reduction proponents often claim some offsetting benefit, but rarely does it seem to come true. Look up the Laffer Curve from the 1980s, when the Reagan administration claimed that tax cuts would spur economic
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> assumed there is no positive change in corporate growth as a result of the reduced taxes. Or negative change due to reduction of necessary government services.
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Two thoughts on stories on taxes: 1) I'd prefer stories on government finances tell the whole story: Slashing taxes and government services by X. That may or may not be an acceptable trade-off, but usually it's presented as someth
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> For more than half a century now, psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists and other experts on human behaviour have been asserting that the human brain works like a computer. That is the opposite of what I have read from those groups
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Justice Dept. debating charges against WikiLeaks members(washingtonpost.com)
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> Neither of the candidates of the established parties of left and right will be in the runoff. From one perspective, it's very surprising that establishment parties are doing so badly in Western countries. There is no real crisis i
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Silicon Cowboys – The Rise and Fall of Compaq (interview with Rod Canion)(youtube.com)
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I agree. I'm saying that the OP missed the "real story" and is focusing on one detail of it.
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We agree more than you think, which I'll get to in a moment, but first a couple points: > much of that economic advancement in China has happened with very protectionist policies To a significant degree, China's growth has been
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> lede It may be of interest to you, but it isn't the lede of the story. The lede is a pattern of behavior by the CEO, of which that is one element.
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> very much benefits the American economy This move seems consistent with Trump's and part of the GOP's nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-international trade ideology. He'll try to sell aspects of it in ways that appeal, b
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I didn't mean that that people aren't aware that such things as books exist, which of course would be absurd. I meant that people aren't aware of the serious and scholarly books that exist because they don't experience t
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Imagine an intellectually curious but poor high schooler: They can't afford to buy journal articles and books; they have almost no option to access serious, quality information. How much potential is lost to this travesty? We've f
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The NSA is part of the U.S. Dept of Defense, which generally can't operate domestically. I'm not sure how that applies in this case.
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> Just pointing out that China likely won't sit on its ass as this happens China already is behaving aggressively, expanding territory under its control (e.g., in the S. China Sea) and threatening to do so elsewhere (e.g, in the Sen
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> I'd guess that if people knew then what they know now, they'd do things differently or not do them. How I wish that were true. Many problems of humanity are very predictable - climate change is an easy one, but probably we ca
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I agree that is a line of thinking, with one exception. Japan is not building up its military because of N Korea but because of China. Japan's recent military buildup didn't begin until China's really took flight. Japan alway
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I'm not sure quite what you are looking for. I gave some reasons above. I think it's widely accepted to be true among foreign policy experts, FWIW. Here's a bit more. Some is basic international relations (which I'm no e
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I figured. My point is that locality doesn't inform you on whether the coastline is receding due to climate change. Do people in Los Angeles know the causes of their droughts, simply by virtue of living there?
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> I see people on Reddit saying they'll leave to [X] if [Y] will no longer work Every major change ever made in any system brings out those comments. Whether the change is good or bad, successful or not, is not related to the existe
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People keep stating this, but what is the basis? Beyond a doubt, there will be a lot of claims out there from deniers that climate change isn't causing the problem, whether true or not.
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> The first two comments seem to associate anthropogenic climate change with the changes in Louisiana's coastline. A more likely culprit is hydrologic mismanagement. What is that based on?
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> I lived in LA for several years. I'm not sure how that informs you on the cause.
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> US military is present in South Korea and Japan because of N. Korea and China, not anybody else. / You don't see such US military presence in NZ or Australia. I'm not sure that paints an accurate picture. The first reaso
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> China is letting this happen because of a lot of the profits they make ... How do you know the Chinese leadership's strategic thinking about NK? Also, that hypothesis doesn't explain the massive resources, including blood, th

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