Onyx Aggie

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1. Higher taxes on capital and lower taxes on labor.

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Why should people who use their brains be taxed more than those that use their bodies?

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2. Public wage insurance, which smooths out falls in income after job losses as workers find better opportunities (and therefore eventually pays for itself).

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What a great idea! Public programs have been so successful at solving the issues they were created for!

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3. Tax reforms to establish inheritance tax for the ultra wealthy to prevent the entrenchment of capital-owning elites (the true 1%).

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This already exists in many states. Why do you want to create disincentives for saving for and providing for your family after your death? What percentage is high enough to make the jealous and greedy satisfied?

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Anyone else find British accents super annoying?

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It really depends on the accent, they are not all created equal.

I could listen to this and not get tired of it for quite a while.

I wouldn't want to listen to Cockney gutter trash for a second.

First that fatty in the Tim Horton's granny video, now this. Reporter is fat, gap toothed, and has a football field of space between her eyes. These local stations are failing their cities, failing their state, failing their country, and failing the world. Unacceptable!

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That's a big girl to have gotten an on camera news gig.

We used to be a proper nation.

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Fat, two nose rings, and would be unattractive even if skinny. A complete betrayal of the public trust.

Breaking! Motivated voters turn up in greater numbers than non-motivated voters! Who knew? :dunno:

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You have to frick one, marry one, kill one: Natalie Maines, Rosie O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow. Go….

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You diabolical son of a bitch!

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Is this post evidence of your nuanced understanding of the situation?

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It's not evidence of anything. It's only an observation that had you taken the time during your stint at university to study basic economics, you likely wouldn't be perplexed as to whether a billionaire owning a money losing venture made financial sense.

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Representatives and senators also have a responsibility to follow the constitution

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Obviously

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and do what is best for America.

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According to whom? This is nothing more than sophistry to be used to do as they please. Two representatives can take two diametrically opposed positions while both claim their position is "what is best for America." As I said previously, they may get away with it a time or two, but eventually they will be held accountable.

1) Find a niche

2) Exploit it

3) ??

4) Profit

I don't think Massie's overall voting record is the issue. He is certainly more in line than many other Republicans. Massie's issue is that he is always much louder and more excited when he votes against the Republican majority than when he votes with it.

This makes him come across as an obstructionist. Many people view him as part of the reason, rightly or wrongly, the majority can't get shite done. If he just quietly made the same votes, people would grumble, but there wouldn't have been the move to get him out.