It’s on to the links!
Salon writer Cody Cain is an idiot.
More than a third of millennials are idiots.
Max Boot is an idiot. I know, that last one is low-hanging fruit, but still…
Strike a pose to look more attractive to the opposite sex. Or, you know, whatever sex strikes your fancy, I guess.
Have a problem with rats? Get some monkeys.
The Celts thought everyone should have wine. I prefer beer, myself, but I can go along with the sentiment.
California proposes to crack down on freelancers. A stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid idea. Add it to a long list of stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid ideas coming up in California these days.
The President has an idea for reducing criminal misuse of guns. It makes some sense, so of course it won’t go anywhere in Congress.
In California, you can have unburned property, or you can have electricity. Pick one.
In Colorado, we have mail-in ballots, which are starting to be returned. So far Republicans and older voters are returning ballots at higher levels than Democrats and younger voters – all of which doesn’t mean much in our increasingly-blue state. Still, it is an off year…
Turns out that Congress has several options for financing Medicare for all. Here they are:
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A 32 percent payroll tax
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A 25 percent income surtax
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A 42 percent value-added tax (VAT)
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A mandatory public premium averaging $7,500 per capita – the equivalent of $12,000 per individual not otherwise on public insurance
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More than doubling all individual and corporate income tax rates
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An 80 percent reduction in non-health federal spending
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A 108 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increase in the national debt
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Impossibly high taxes on high earners, corporations, and the financial sector
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A combination of approaches
To all of those I can only say three things:
- Hell no
- Fuck off, slavers
- Taxation is theft!
On that note, we return you to your Wednesday, already in progress.
