If you’re a sentient being and don’t live in a cave, you’ve heard that lowering the tax rate is how you jump-start the economy. Well, if your goal is raising incomes by lowering taxes, I call bullshit.
Exploring the variables that matter most. Exploding the conventional wisdoms that rule us.
Category: Let go let GOP
Are “pro-life” states pro-life workplaces?
Are workers’s lives better protected in “pro-life” states?
The answer, culled from facts not feelings, is unambiguous:
What James Madison thought about a federal judiciary chosen by a majority of states BUT a minority of people
The Father of the Constitution—James Madison—feared that Senators representing a majority of states BUT a minority of Americans could end up picking our judges.
Fast forward 233 years…
Between 1900 & 2014, the US went from spending basically $0 to 8% of GDP—and its citizens gained 31 more years of life
Between 1900 and 2014, the US spent 8X more of its national income on public health. During the same time, its citizens could expect to live 31 years longer.
Greatest Common Factors 