I would be surprised if she didn't carry her cell-phone ... people tend to make it really easy.

So ... if we go for only restitution justice, poor people should never be punished.

Two wrongs don't make a right. I'm all for peaceful protest. The cops that murdered George Floyd, the rioters, and the looters should all be hanged with the same rope.

While we're at it, can we hang -- or at a minimum fire -- these cops in Nevada?

The partners of these out of control cops need to be fired as well. If they didn't know their partners were out of control POS, then they are incompetent as cops. Same with the supervisors. Even if they are a day away from retirement. Fire them and take away their pensions. They are either corrupt or incompetent.

And this is why he needed to put in /s ... maybe he should have gone whole-hog and put in </sarcasm>.

And yet, the policies of National-Socialist German Workers' Party are more closely aligned with the Democratic Party. And while we've been fed a constant "Republicans are Nazis", the Democrats refuse to condemn anti-Semitism and certainly follow their economic strategies.

Hell, listen to the rhetoric of people like Occupy Wall Street (generally associated with the left) and you hear anti-Semitism loud and clear; listen for all of their code words for Jews: the 1% (Jews), the rich (Jews), Wall Street (Jews), Financiers (Jews), Bankers (Jews). I guess the left, Occupy Wall Street, and the Anti-Fa learned well from their ideological father Goebbels. Repeat the lie often enough ...

At the time of the Rodney King verdict, everyone I knew was against the verdict -- until the riots started. Once the riots were in full swing, a significant number of people decided that the cops deserved the benefit of the doubt. I wonder if another opportunity at meaningful reform is going to go up in smoke due to the rioters and looters destroying the message.

The economy was not already in a good position. If you look at GDP growth rate, the economy was anaemic at best when Obama left office.

Repeat the lie often enough ...

Tax revenue did not go down with the tax cuts. The goal should be to minimize the tax rate while maximize tax revenue. Even if you maximize the tax revenue in the United States, the government is spending more than can be collected. 100% tax rate results in 0 tax revenue due to the elimination of economic activity.

Too bad most people don't seem to realize this. The president gets the credit or the blame, but congress is the one who creates the situation. Clinton didn't balance the budget; Newt Gingrich did.

Wrong Clinton. If Hillary had won, the pandemic would still have hit.

Repeat the lie often enough and people will believe it.

If you look at the tax revenue numbers, the tax cuts spurred the economy enough to overcome the cost of the tax cuts. Tax revenue did not go down.

What people like jellomizer fail to realize is that tax changes change behavior. If the income tax rate was 100%, tax revenue would go to 0% due to no economic activity. Likewise, a tax rate of 0% would generate 0 income tax. Unless you are a totalitarian prick, the goal is to minimize the tax rate while still covering government expenses. With current U.S. government expenses, this is impossible. The U.S. has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

This is critically important. The odds are greatly against your financial advisor doing better than the S&P 500 or the S&P 100. Something like 92% of them fail to beat the S&P. Given the fees they are charging for under performing, you are vastly better off buying a low-load S&P mutual fund -- and use a discount broker.

Completely agree with this. If by the time your kid graduates public high school, if you don't know at least 3 teachers that should be fired with prejudice, then you haven't been paying attention. Half the math teachers at the local public high school should have been fired (and one of the teachers should have had her pay doubled -- exceptionalism should be rewarded; teacher's union won't allow that, but there you go.).

Just when I give up on slashdot, you go and post something useful.