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Comment Re:UBI (Score 1) 149

Buying stocks is not funding or starting companies. Stocks are a savings vehicle. The money you spend on a stock (unless it's part of an offering) doesn't go to the company and doesn't help the company in any way. Sure the founders, owners and CEOs of companies, such as the people you listed, have invested money in those companies, but even for them leaving that money in those stocks is primarily a vehicle of savings, not funding the company.

Comment Welcome Centers (Score 1) 276

As far as I know every interstate still has rest areas and some of them are called "Welcome Centers". They have free maps of the state you're in and sometimes the neighboring states as well. Usually, the welcome centers are near the state borders but some of them are more in the middle of the state.
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JimFive

Comment Re:Yes, He Can Do That (Score 2) 390

The first amendment does not mean that anyone has to be forced to listen to you or agree with you.

The first amendment is more than just freedom of speech. It also contains the right to "petition the government". It is arguable that this requires that the government be forced to listen to (not agree with) you. If the twitter account is considered an official communication platform (per Spicer) then it MAY be that the President (or his designee) would be required to listen to people who communicate with it.

Secondly, the GPs statement was a hypothetical: IF the president was using the power of the government to prevent someone from posting on twitter at all then we would all agree that this violates freedom of speech.
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JimFive

Comment Re:America! (Score 3, Interesting) 726

should I pay a living wage to the kid down he block to mow my lawn or rake leaves...or baby site my kid

You have a choice. You can pay a living wage or you can pay for the social safety net that subsidizes those jobs that pay less than a living wage. If a job does not pay enough for the workers to support themselves then that job is being subsidized in some manner. (How do I know: because the worker is alive.) You can pay the wage or pay the subsidy, but you will pay.
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JimFive

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