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*ahem* leadership team? :

https://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-living-calculator.aspx

Netflix Paying $10 Million for Ocasio-Cortez Campaign Documentary. Isn't the Free Market Great?: http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/08/netflix-paying-10-million-for-ocasio-cor Bingo.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/11/indiana-lawmakers-shot-down-proposal-raise-starting-teacher-pay/2817646002/ Is a strike coming if the ISTA doesn't get it's way?

1. Agreed. We can do this by getting government out of the health care business entirely. That means medicare and medicaid. 2. So everybody can work the same job as you do? 3. You mean the candidates are effectively controlled by Corporations either before they are elected or soon after? That may be the case; see my response to your original point #4 as a solution. 5. There are different flavors of a flat tax. Which one(s) do you advocate?

Hmm. That's news to me.

1. Define "affordable healthcare". 2. Define "good job". 3. Elaborate on how votes cast somehow "don't count" in the current political process. 4. We can mostly agree on this. Get rid of most regulations, and by reducing the size and power of government you reduce the influence of crony capitalism. 5. Define "pay their share".

I am? Care to share?

Elizabeth Warren Formally Declares Candidacy, Enters the 2020 Race: http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/09/elizabeth-warren-president-announcement There's one officially in the ring. Stuff like this will may do here in though:

*yawn* I'm sure it is. Is a FOIA request required?

The main conspiracy I see is the one attempting to be perpetrated on the American public by VOC and her followers.

And the ultimate end result of socialism. Including you Dante? And why should being a U.S. Representative be viewed as such a great accomplishment?

Death, taxes and Carmel girls swimming winning state titles. Greyhounds dominate for 33rd straight title: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/02/09/carmel-girls-swimming-extends-national-record-33rd-straight-title/2767378002/ Perhaps this is one of the reasons the citizens of the Carmel Clay Government School District choose not to split up their mega school hegemony.

What political solutions have you personally had a hand in implementing, Dante? Please describe them.

So you don't believe black people wearing "whiteface" to caricature Caucasians is racist because Caucasians have "privilege"?

http://reason.com/archives/2019/02/08/is-gentrification-still-bad-if-local-own#comment These social justice warriors really have nothing better to do with their time?

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/jeff-bezos-exposes-alleged-national-enquirer-extortion-scheme/ Kudos to Mr. Bezos for standing up to AMI and calling their bluff.

http://reason.com/archives/2019/02/08/nursing-shortages-will-put-californias-p Yet more inane government bureaucracy at work. Typical. Nursing seems to be a lucrative gig these days. I have a sibling who is a nurse with 20+ years experience that is on her probably 8th different hospital job. She has negotiated a significant pay increase at every stop.

'Not ashamed': Assman says his name shouldn't be rejected for personalized licence plate: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/melville-man-saskatchewan-government-insurance-assman-license-plate-1.5008302 As a comment to this story states: "And Dr. Michael Fucker's hopes were quickly dashed . . ."

Should Paul McCartney and Other Billionaires Be 'Abolished'?: http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/07/destroy-all-billionaires Reich links to a column by The New York Times' Farhad Manjoo with the eliminationist title "Abolish Billionaires: A radical idea is gaining adherents on the left. It's the perfect way to blunt tech-driven inequality." The column makes two large points that undergird the anti-billionaire movement. First is the idea that nobody deserves or needs a billion dollars. "Why should anyone have a billion dollars," asks Manjoo, "why should anyone be proud to brandish their billions, when there is so much suffering in the world?" Second is the notion that "inequality is the defining economic condition of the tech age." Did, say, Paul McCartney (net worth: $1.2 billion) make his pile through theft, as Robert Reich would contend? Would there be less suffering in the world if his money is expropriated and transferred to the wretched of the earth via higher taxes rather than through his own charitable donations and investments? Probably not, especially when you think about how much suffering, especially in the developing world, is the direct result of government action. More important, the creation of billionaires is a lower-order effect of a relatively free-market economy. Recall Joseph Schumpeter on this: Schumpeter's basic description helps to explain the ubiquity of all sorts of technology, from cell phones to pharmaceuticals, all around the world. Because of massive increases in global trade, more people have more stuff and are living longer than ever before. If one indirect consequence of this is that there are more billionaires than there used to be, so be it. It's become fashionable to assert that inequality is back at Gilded Age levels and that the concentration of power and wealth and everything good and decent is in smaller and smaller hands. This is simply not a good description of the world. For the first time in history, report researchers at the Brookings Institution: Income inequality among countries has been declining as well. The GINI coefficient, a measure of income inequality, of 146 countries that account for 95 percent of global production, declined from 67 percent in 1988 to 57 percent in 2015. Over the same time frame in the United States, it rose from 35 percent to 38 percent, an increase, to be sure, but a relatively modest one. China and India saw bigger increases, but the growth in inequality within those countries is more than overwhelmed by the absolute increases in wealth, especially among the poorest inhabitants. Click through image below for a fully functioning graph. Bruegel Within the United States, both the right and the left like to tell a story about wage stagnation, the end of upward mobility, and the death of the American Dream. Conservatives will tell you it's all liberals' fault and you need to roll with Trump or the Republicans if you want to make America great again. Liberals make the opposite case and push wealth taxes, Medicare for All, Free College for All, Guaranteed Jobs for All, and more. Both sides are describing a false version of reality. As Russ Roberts has shown, mobility is alive and well in the United States. The most stunning indicator comes from a study that looks at income changes for individuals between 1980 and 2014. If you simply measure statistical averages, writes Roberts, As libertarian economist Steve Horwitz writes, over the past 45 years, the consumption patterns of the poor and rich have become more similar. That's a point that gets lost if you're fixated on people in the top 0.001 percent: Neither Horwitz nor Roberts are panglossian; each details areas (particularly housing, education, and health care) in which outcomes could be vastly improved, typically by moving in a more free-market direction. As Schumpeter might put it, capitalism might make more billionaires, but it's achievement is creating many more things that virtually everyone can afford. "Abolish Billionaires" is a smart slogan, but that's all it is. Figuratively lopping the heads off of the richest of the rich will not make life easier for the poor and dispossessed, and it won't increase economic growth and living standards. It might sate the bloodlust of left-wing populists for a while, but certainly that outcome can be purchased for lower cost.

"Progressive" Attacks on Capitalism Were Key to Hitler's Success: https://mises.org/library/progressive-attacks-capitalism-were-key-hitlers-success Those who don't learn from history...........................

It's obvious. All those individuals are unrepentant racists and Hollywood should blacklist them from further work in the industry.

The 5 Most Hilarious And Insane Things In Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal' Proposal: https://www.dailywire.com/news/43177/walsh-5-most-hilarious-and-insane-things-matt-walsh Yep, sounds like a plan.

Climate change is the excuse; radically remaking the American economy is the aim.: http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/07/green-new-deal-democratic-socialism-by-o Printing more money. Yeah, we'll see how well that works out.