Simplest Explanation of Privilege
This comic has picked one scenario which may or may not be the rule. I do not think it is quite so simple as this scenario demonstrates.
This scenario does not account for the millions of immgrants coming to America with only their clothes on their backs and desire in their hearts. They worked hard, made life better for them and their children, and passed along the secret to making life better.
That secret is no real secret at all. Get educated. Get employed, anywhere. Get married. Have children. Do not commit crime. Do those things in that order and your likelihood of living in poverty is about 3%. Do those things out of order, skip one, or commit crimes, and live in poverty about 80% of the time.
Even if you're born into a family in poverty, you can learn this lesson, if only by observing your community, but certainly by going to school every day and paying attention. Its not about privilege, its about setting expectations.
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Feeling the Burn!
Feel the 'Bern'
Bernie Sanders is proposing many things if gets elected President. Many things which will not be free. Many things that will necessitate tax hikes. Significant tax hikes.
Business healthcare premium tax — $6.3 trillion
Bernie thinks taxing businesses will raise enough money to pay for socialized medicine, er, free health care. Actually raising taxes will cause employers to lay off workers in an effort to reduce the tax burden. So employees' savings on health care will not be enough to offset lost jobs.
Ending tax free status of employer health insurance — $3.1 trillion
Same logic as above. I would propose removing the exempt employer status, and give raises to all employees to buy their own insurance.
Wall Street speculation tax — $3 trillion
What the heck is Wall Street speculation anyway? If that means investments, then you can kiss Wall Street goodbye, in which case there will be no more speculation. If people cannot expect a return, there will be no investment.
Individual healthcare premium tax — $2.1 trillion
More taxes on individuals following a decade of shrinking income. Make sense to anyone?
Social Security tax hike — $1.2 trillion
This might make sense if Social Security was solvent, which it is not. Raising teh eligibility age makes more sense, though this one may be negotiable for me.
Raising marginal income tax rates — $1.1 trillion
Raising tax rates on smaller income is a lose:lose proposition every time.
Corporate offshore income tax — $ 1 trillion
A better idea is a tax holiday which would repatriate the money being held overseas.
Capital gains tax hike — $920 billion
How is this different than the speculation tax above? Oh, it piles on to that one.
Payroll tax hike — $319 billion
More taxes for working people? Seriously? See raising marginal income tax above.
Death tax hike — $243 billion
Nothing like double taxation to make a socialist feel good. Tax me when I earn it, and tax my family when I die.
Scrapping tax deductions — $150 billion
Limit deductions. Sounds like raise tax rates to me.
Energy tax — $135 billion
Al Gore would be proud, but until any form of energy is cheap enough to make people switch, they won't. Green energy is not cost effective and therefore is not a good option. Maybe one day it will be.
Carried interest tax — $15.6 billion
This earned interest is already taxable income. So just say increased taxes again.
Liberals and socialists never learn that to get more of something you subsidize, and for less you tax it. When you increase the tax rate you generally get less tax income due to the shrinking base being taxed. Politicians never believe that a change in taxation results in changed behavior, yet it happens every time they change the tax rates. But of course they know this is true because they are using the tax code to reward and/or punish various behaviors already. They want their cake and to eat it too.
Bernie Sanders is proposing many things if gets elected President. Many things which will not be free. Many things that will necessitate tax hikes. Significant tax hikes.
Business healthcare premium tax — $6.3 trillion
Bernie thinks taxing businesses will raise enough money to pay for socialized medicine, er, free health care. Actually raising taxes will cause employers to lay off workers in an effort to reduce the tax burden. So employees' savings on health care will not be enough to offset lost jobs.
Ending tax free status of employer health insurance — $3.1 trillion
Same logic as above. I would propose removing the exempt employer status, and give raises to all employees to buy their own insurance.
Wall Street speculation tax — $3 trillion
What the heck is Wall Street speculation anyway? If that means investments, then you can kiss Wall Street goodbye, in which case there will be no more speculation. If people cannot expect a return, there will be no investment.
Individual healthcare premium tax — $2.1 trillion
More taxes on individuals following a decade of shrinking income. Make sense to anyone?
Social Security tax hike — $1.2 trillion
This might make sense if Social Security was solvent, which it is not. Raising teh eligibility age makes more sense, though this one may be negotiable for me.
Raising marginal income tax rates — $1.1 trillion
Raising tax rates on smaller income is a lose:lose proposition every time.
Corporate offshore income tax — $ 1 trillion
A better idea is a tax holiday which would repatriate the money being held overseas.
Capital gains tax hike — $920 billion
How is this different than the speculation tax above? Oh, it piles on to that one.
Payroll tax hike — $319 billion
More taxes for working people? Seriously? See raising marginal income tax above.
Death tax hike — $243 billion
Nothing like double taxation to make a socialist feel good. Tax me when I earn it, and tax my family when I die.
Scrapping tax deductions — $150 billion
Limit deductions. Sounds like raise tax rates to me.
Energy tax — $135 billion
Al Gore would be proud, but until any form of energy is cheap enough to make people switch, they won't. Green energy is not cost effective and therefore is not a good option. Maybe one day it will be.
Carried interest tax — $15.6 billion
This earned interest is already taxable income. So just say increased taxes again.
Liberals and socialists never learn that to get more of something you subsidize, and for less you tax it. When you increase the tax rate you generally get less tax income due to the shrinking base being taxed. Politicians never believe that a change in taxation results in changed behavior, yet it happens every time they change the tax rates. But of course they know this is true because they are using the tax code to reward and/or punish various behaviors already. They want their cake and to eat it too.
Friday, January 8, 2016
Liars lie, its what they do!
Hillary surprised by use of personal email account by staffer
For the good of country, this woman cannot be elected. She cannot be trusted, and she lies, consistently lies, and then she lies to cover up her lies. Oh yeah, and she's a liar too.
How can any reasonable person, using a personal email account for state business when it is expressly forbidden, be surprised that a staffer would be doing the same thing?
She has lied about the women her husband has been accused of sexually abusing, harassing and assaulting. Link
She has lied about FBI files in her closet in the White House. Video
She has lied about Whitewater.Link
She has lied about cattle futures. Link
She has lied about travelgate. Link
She has lied about the Benghazi attack. Link
She has lied about her email server. Link
She has lied about the messages on the email server.
She has lied about what she said to families of the Benghazi victims, and she has accused them of lying about that.
If you search the web for "Hillary lies" you will get approximately 6.8 million hits.
Need more information about her lies?
For the good of country, this woman cannot be elected. She cannot be trusted, and she lies, consistently lies, and then she lies to cover up her lies. Oh yeah, and she's a liar too.
How can any reasonable person, using a personal email account for state business when it is expressly forbidden, be surprised that a staffer would be doing the same thing?
She has lied about the women her husband has been accused of sexually abusing, harassing and assaulting. Link
She has lied about FBI files in her closet in the White House. Video
She has lied about Whitewater.Link
She has lied about cattle futures. Link
She has lied about travelgate. Link
She has lied about the Benghazi attack. Link
She has lied about her email server. Link
She has lied about the messages on the email server.
She has lied about what she said to families of the Benghazi victims, and she has accused them of lying about that.
If you search the web for "Hillary lies" you will get approximately 6.8 million hits.
Need more information about her lies?
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