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I am in agreement with Transporters thoughts. I don't think AOC is well informed about political and policy issues, but neither was Trump. Right now we are living in an age of populism. Both Trump and AOC are great at using Twitter to relate the common person. They are both loved by their...

I thought the argument was that it was unconstitutional because it had a mandate. Without the mandate what would make it unconstitutional?

To me it is an obvious political loss for Trump partly because Trump set the expectations for what a win would be. Trump was saying that he would change the enforcement policy as part of a bigger measure that included funding for the wall. He ended up not getting that funding for the wall...

Admittedly it does cast doubt on Obama's assertion. That said we don't know exactly what he knew. For example he may not have realized she had a private server. He may have just thought she was using a non-work email account (which also is a no-no). That is what Sarah Palin as Governor got...

I do agree that behavior between JFK and Trump are similar and that the media treats teh behavior differently. For the most part people were pretty mum on Kennedy. There are a few exceptions, for example, Gore Vidal (a leftist) wrote a novel in 1967 based on JFK's life that was not flattering...

Which from a worker's standpoint is a bad thing. 401ks can replace a pension if somebody starts contributing in their 20's and contributes 10% of their salary until they retire. The problem is only 10% of the population probably does that. Even the federal gov't pension which is good is not...

I am an attorney for the DOD. We are fairly busy in my office. You can slack some, but only so much, because your case is your case. Another attorney is not going to pick up your cases for you so if you do an unsatisfactory job you will get exposed. That is not to say we all put in the same...

They could get rid of them if they really were motivated to. However, the supervisors usually aren't as motivated as supervisors in the private sector because their job is less performance driven. But it would take a long time, like a year, but if the supervisor really wanted to document the...

Tell us how you really feel.

I don't know, but I think that was people were originally planning to do. However, the IRS had the same thoughts you did and have said they will only honor payments to tax bills that have been assessed (and if you won't receive it until June of next year it hasn't been assessed). In term of...

I see the Vaxx issue as a free rider problem. Just like for common goods like roads a lot of people will benefit from building a road, but nobody will benefit enough to build it themselves. And if it is built its difficult to keep others from using it (technically you could stop others from...

I think he'll repay it now that people are holding him accountable, but the settlement was a while ago so its probably a safe inference that he wasn't going to repay it until the media became aware of the issue. Granted it was a Republican lead ethics committee that ultimately disclosed it the...

When I think of trickle down economies I think a concept different from what you are giving an example of. I think of it as the idea that you want those with surplus capital to invest it in the economy. That is a bit different than what you are talking about because you are not necessarily...

You are talking about a different concept. There is the concept of opioid use and the concept of the current epidemic. Throughout history there have been various opioid epidemics. The most famous one was in China and was part of the lead up to the Boxer Rebellion. However when people are...

The opioid crisis is relatively new. In the mid 90's the number of people in the U.S. who died annually from opioid overdoses was around 5,000 (and the number pretty much rose in correlation to the increase in the general population). We are approaching 40,000 now. The origins of the crisis...