You can't tax your way out of it. If currently we're taxing say 10, the government spends 12. If you increase tax revenue to 13, the government will spend 16. The only way to fix the debt problem is to spend less than the government gets in revenue. Even if you get a balanced budget amendment and then increase taxes, the government will just spend all of it and not pay the debt. We need an amendment that says something like "The government will not spend more than it gets in revenue, and if there's an existing debt X% of the revenue must go to paying the debt". Only after that can you raise taxes to solve the debt problem.

No they didn't. One nut job said something stupid and it got blown out of proportion. The other reasons were all perfectly valid. https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...

Once the framework is in place to tax one segment on society it becomes much easier to tax other segments. It won't be very long before the tax on the super rich gets extended to a tax on the rich then the upper middle class then the middle class.

Disney got involved in politics, can't expect to do that and not get involved in politics.

I don't usually make unneeded comments, however, well done sir, well done.

Because supply and demand will drive that pay down anyways. If someone lives in a low cost of living area with no sales tax (say Texas) they can compete with Californians for remote work. I'm reasonably sure the Texan will work for far less, get the job and still make a comfortable salary for their location. Why would a company hire the more expensive employee?

I think this is the key, unless they have a much faster than light travel method it'd have to be worth the cost to visit earth. (Un)fortunately there just isn't anything on earth worth it. The only thing I can think of that's unique to earth is our specific life forms, and if there are aliens likely it's really just our specific life forms which would be one set out of trillions of trillions.

Out of close to 40 million infected a handful have been reinfected. It's far more likely to be a deficiency in the test or the procedure than either his body forgetting how to fight it in a month or it mutated enough for his immunity to be useless. Even if true, the numbers of reinfected are so low that making any change to your life style to avoid reinfection is asinine. While these cases should be studied, treating them as anything more than an extremely rare occurance is fear mongering.

Blood oxygen content is a key indicator determining if a covid infected person will need to go on a ventilator. So right now the demand is for detection/monitoring devices is far higher then it has ever been before or ever will be again absent another respiratory pandemic. By delaying the ruling Apple has the chance to capitalize on it before the demand dies down.

Not sure if this could be considered corporate since it was before the modern idea of a corporation but it's very close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I can top this. In a trifecta of confusion someone with the same name as me tried to email someone else with my name and sent it to me by mistake. Probably the weirdest email I've ever gotten.

The criminal court just determines if a crime was committed and the punishment. It's possible for someone to be wronged without a crime being committed, that's where civil courts come in.

Considering they believe we are closer to doomday now that we were during the Cuban missile crisis I'd say your spot on.

I'd be willing to bet it's like a previous poster said. She ended up in a picture with her Johns at some point and Facebook did it's face recognition evil. I used to try and stop people from taking pictures of me so facebook wouldn't have my info, but at this point it's a lost cause.

Your missing the point, even if you have never created a facebook account one exists for you they created. Thus if someone uploaded a picture of you to facebook and tagged your name in it, then they can tag your name on every picture uploaded to them with you in, even if they don't automatically tag those pictures they sure as hell know who you are and your name and relationships at a minimum. At this point there are probably very few people in the world that haven't had a picture of them uploaded and tagged.