From “The Fault is Not in Our Stars but in Ourselves” File?…
“Biden Pitches Tax Hike On High-Earners To Solve Medicare Funding Crisis”— https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-wants-tax-hike-high-earners-solve-medicare-funding-crisis
Of course, to be fair to “POTUS”, the money that “Biden” (the MOST POPULAR, MOST CORRUPT, MOST DESTRUCTIVE “POTUS” in history—hmm, wonder what the connection might be?) needs to dish out to all “his” supporters in the bankrupt Dem-supporting unions, bankrupt Dem-supporting states, BANKRUPT Dem-supporting cities, BANKRUPT Dem-supporting media, BANKRUPT, Dem-supporting colleges and other BANKRUPT Dem-supporting institutions HAS TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE!
What’s a “POTUS” to do? (Especially a MOST CORRUPT ONE?)
After all, “he” really must live up to “his” reputation. One can understand the moral urgency…
+ Bonus (speaking of Dem-run cities):
‘ “Worst Violent Crime Surge In Three Centuries”: Op-Ed Says Philly Dem Voters Owe The City “An Apology” ‘— https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/worst-violent-crime-surge-three-centuries-op-ed-says-philly-dem-voters-owe-city-apology
Alas, this article only really makes sense if it’s referring to all the voters who voted a dozen times or all the dead voters or all the non-existent voters or non-US-citizen voters. OTOH, is it really their fault if the Democratic Party enables—and thrives on—this kind of “FORTIFICATION”…?
(I suppose we could also blame all those Republican voters who enabled their votes to be lost or trashed…)
File under: Putting the cart before the horse….
I just saw this, so apologies if previously posted…
Ah. He was warned about his career path and has a paying “day job.”
I had forgotten how long dark matter had been lurking around as a patch to model problems.
I’m willing to concede that it is at least possible that some of the basic principles of physics might be different in an extremely remote part of the universe; not that I’d like it as an assumption. But I didn’t like the shot he seems to take at mathematics itself.
Seems to me that he justifiably doesn’t like the Rube Goldberg or band-aid style of these mathematical models, but that’s not a reason to complain about mathematics itself. Maybe it’s just a symantical misstep that he or I made.
Nice Liz,
The sax player really made me laugh. The point about rainbow churches is really a true point. Well, it’s not the rainbow part I find objectionable, but rather the other Marxist claptrap.
“Biden Pitches Tax Hike On High-Earners To Solve Medicare Funding Crisis”
And if Republicans oppose it, they are idiots. Who is financially enabling and socially promoting almost ALL of the toxic elements in U.S. society? Rich people. Not all, of course, but the ones who haven’t have been largely silent and refused to do anything about it.
Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.
Mike
I take comfort in the probability that great inventors can build great spaceships to explore our solar system, without the need to “pick a side” in such metaphysics / physics debates.
I do not mean to suggest that these debates are irrelevant, only that their resolution is not (yet) an impediment to an exciting future. An exciting future is what Elon Musk is selling, and it is compelling and healthy for society.
I like DeSantis’s idea to get Djokovic in by ferry from the Bahamas. His exclusion over a vaccine which does not prevent infection is ridiculous. Even the Aussies let him in!
Cosmology: Ah yes, just another field of endeavor where the science is settled!!
What I found interesting in the video is the difficulty cosmologists have in “breaking” with the existing paradigm; they seem to be shackled to the existing theory and are loath to present alternative theories (especially when research funding can be at risk or even granting, or not, tenure). They would rather just develop (mathematical) add-on’s to the existing theory to force it to comport with new observations.
But at least in cosmology/physics new observations will eventually compel them to come up with a new, better theory.
MBunge, one might indeed sympathize…except it would seem that THE problem—or A problem—is that “Biden” is (by design, of course) only making hyper-inflation hyperer….
IOW, EVERYONE suffers, especially the not-so-wealthy (AKA the poor, in which direction the middle class is going, by “Biden”‘s tailor-made, insidiously clever design) because—and here’s the grand refrain—sing loud! “We’re all in this togethuh!” (Besides, suffering IS ennobling doncha’ know…oh, and UNIFYING!)
…To which end:
“Biden To Propose 5.2% Raise For Federal Employees; Republicans, Unions Slam”— https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-propose-52-raise-federal-employees-republicans-slam
Question: But how can “he” do this!!! Aren’t we thufferin’ enough as it is??
Answer: “Cuz, you chumps—“I” mean, ahem, mah fellah Amurri-amurri-amurrikinz—“we” look after our people!!!”
Don’t have the slightest idea why Ms. “They Don’t Call Me ‘Disinfo Czar’ for Nuthin” should want to stone wall. (Though quite possibly, she needed some prep time…that is, time to learn how to say “Sorry, I didn’t hear (or don’t understand) your question” or “I don’t think that’s valid (legitimate)” or I don’t know” and/or “I can’t remember” in different intonations, modulations, attitudes and poses”…)
Of course, she didn’t quite say WHEN she’d actually show up. She sounds like one really busy person…
the problem is the debt we’re incurring is crowding out required expenditures like medicare, yes the richest do seem to funding most of the prog termites,
wait for next musical number, i’d rather use the agonizer from classic trek
Signals of unknown, unknowable, assumed fidelity. That said, science is a philosophy, a practice, a logical space in the near-domain with cause.
“Biden Pitches Tax Hike On High-Earners To Solve Medicare Funding Crisis”
Medicare, Medicaid/Obamacares, too, are around 80% unfunded, and the principal drivers of government deficits, natonal debt, and progressive prices (“inflation”).
Not even with shared responsibility. He’s several trillion dollars short of the mark.
That said, the evidence is that the fault lies in progressive prices forced by single/central/monopolistic solutions, not in cost of services and goods.
Caroline Glick Show, “Politics is poisoning the IDF”, a conversation with retired Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi: https://youtu.be/EdeP2DSW49Q
Sobering stuff.
I watched part of the video and gave up. The talk reminded me of the saying that philosophers are as useful to physicists as ornithologists are to birds.
There is a problem in cosmology with dark matter and dark energy that reminds me of the problem of the wave nature of light in the early 1800’s, well before it became understood as an electromagnetic phenomenon. The only known waves were either sound waves in gases, liquids, and solids which are “longitudinal” waves or transverse waves like those on the surface of water. Light could propagate through a vacuum, hence that had to be a luminiferous ether filling space that carried the light. The problem was that no one could detect it and it was definitively proved wrong by the Michelson-Morley experiment. It required a complete change of thinking brought about by Einstein and special relativity.
Dark matter presents a similar problem in cosmology. The outer arms of the spiral galaxies rotate too fast given the amount of observed matter out there assuming Newtonian gravity, hence the need for the dark matter. The problem with dark matter is that no one has been able to detect it in experiments, despite all the different candidate subatomic particle types that have been proposed in the last 30 to 40 years. There is a theory called Mond which solves the problem, and several others, by making a tiny change to Newtonian gravity instead. Is it correct, only time will tell?
re Barry Meislin – “…the media has transformed itself into a propaganda amplifier…” Indeed: OUR government is now ALLOWED to CREATE PROPAGANDA tailored specifically for U.S. public consumption, using ANY media as it sees fit, while remaining ANONYMOUS as to the source of the material being reported. https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/smith-mundt-modernization-act-2012
“Smith-Mundt Modernization Act”, eh?
More like “Smith-Mundt Transformation Act”.
That Obama guy—he one pretty clevuh fellah…
‘American Masters: Dr Tony Fauci’ coming to your PBS station on March 21.
My own pet theorizing is that the physics parameters probably depend on how close you are to the boundary of the universe if the universe itself is the thing expanding (into what is it expanding, by the way?). In other words, it is an assumption that that the physical laws are homogenous throughout this universe, which it is claimed is expanding. This might well be the source of the discrepancies, or it could be that the model of an expanding universe is wrong, or something else entirely.
So its very theoretical there isnt evidence of it just conjecture
Back to the agonizer
“Biden Pitches Tax Hike On High-Earners To Solve Medicare Funding Crisis”
And if Republicans oppose it, they are idiots. Who is financially enabling and socially promoting almost ALL of the toxic elements in U.S. society? Rich people. — MBunge
You are not entirely wrong, but … The history is long and clear that these things don’t work the way people think they do.
Within a several years of implementing the fed. income tax, the top rate hit 77% and hit 94% in 1944. People who have looked at the tax records for those years claim that exceedingly few people actually paid it. Because the most wealthy either have political connections (with exclusions built into the legislation) or can find dodges to skirt the tax. Those moderately well off people who don’t have either of those get stuck with the tax.
My wife used to do volunteer work with a small group of nice people, and during the Obama years one of them talked about a hard working friend who had opened a retail store that was beginning to do really well. “He made over $350K last year,” this person boasted. My wife piped up, “Oh, so he’s going to pay Obama’s wealthy tax then.”
“What?? No. My friend isn’t one of those wealthy people.”
“Over $250K is the starting point,” she replied.
Thomas corcoran who was behind the tax hikes also created the tax shelter industry
What’s really going to happen is that Biden & Co. are going to squeeze Medicare Advantage programs, taking benefits away from the relatively lower-income seniors who use these plans to keep their medical costs down. Traditional Medicare plus a Medigap plan plus a Part D drug plan add up all together to quite a bit of money. We do that because we don’t want to be restricted in what doctors we can see. So far, I think the government is ahead, considering what we pay vs. the things they pay for, but we haven’t had anything really serious (yet).
Kate: “… but we haven’t had anything really serious (yet).” I gather that the bulk of resources spent on medical care happen during the last one to two years of life. Kind of like going bankrupt: slowly and then fast.
On the video: philosophy seems to have bumped up against the same issues as religion. As we learned more about biology, evolution, genetics, proteins, hormones, etc., we need to ask what portions of our mental actions or activities are determined by genetics and pure physiology (basically as inherent reactions); and what elements/ fraction are determined or derived from culture? Sex at birth is determined by the X vs Y complement of our chromosomes, while we dress babies in pink or blue outfits based on culture.
We have tendencies to be social, cooperative with our in-group, exhibit a sense of “fairness”, etc., but we conduct business via contracts, do the best we can to obtain “justice” via defined (experience based) legal principles and practices, etc.
Sorting out which is which is not receiving as much attention as it might, although I understand that Daniel Dennett incorporates ideas about evolutionary into his philosophical musings.
Biden Inc is already taxing the middle class to fund Democrat social priorities.
But if you had any doubt these organizations are basically doing the Biden administration’s bidding, look at what happened when Congress tried to block 401(k) accounts from being run according to ESG guidelines: a Biden veto promise.
People rely on 401(k) funds for their retirement savings. If managers can run those funds with goals other than maximizing customers’ returns, it’s basically a tax on retirees to fund the managers’ social goals.
The Labor Department ruled this is kosher, and now that Congress wants to put an end to it — with legislation that passed both the Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate — the Biden administration is making sure the rule stays in place anyway.
Team Biden would have to raise taxes to tax people for these purposes itself, which would cost votes. By deputizing fund managers to do this, it avoids responsibility.
@ Griffin > “‘American Masters: Dr Tony Fauci’ coming to your PBS station on March 21.”
The BBC and the mainstream media regularly frighten everyone with the latest climate disaster news with pictures of floods, fires and hurricanes, always followed by scary predictions that things will only get worse unless mankind mends its irresponsible ways.
My alma mater Reuters, the global news agency, used to be above all this hysteria and would relentlessly apply its traditional standards of fairness and balance, but even this mainstream outfit seems to have sold out to the hysterics and axe grinders.
…
Every scientist knows the world’s climate has been gradually and occasionally irregularly warming since the last Ice Age over about 10,000 years. Nobody denies the climate is changing. The ‘denier’ charge is nonsensical. But it performs the useful function of making clear the user knows nothing about climate science. The argument is about the ‘why’ not the ‘if’. Warmists say all the warming is because of man’s activity. The rest say some, a little or none.
…
If you wonder why much of the mainstream media seem united in accepting that the world will soon die unless humans don hair shirts, freeze in winter and walk instead of driving, you need to know about websites like Covering Climate Now (CCN).
Reuters and some of the biggest names in the news like Bloomberg, Agence France Presse, CBS News, and ABC News have signed up to support CCN, which brags that it is an unbiased seeker after the truth. But this claim won’t last long if you peer behind the façade. CCN may claim to be fair and balanced, but it not only won’t tolerate criticism, it brandishes the unethical ‘denier’ weapon with its nasty holocaust denier echoes. This seeks to demonise those who disagree with it by savaging personalities and denying a hearing, rather than using debate to establish its case.
CCN advises journalists to routinely add to stories about bad weather and flooding to suggest climate change is making these events more intense. This is not an established fact, as a simple routine check would show.
…
The idea of a ‘climate crisis’ is not widely accepted, but partisans shout about it. It is a very vague claim and hard to define or prove. By Reuters standards shouldn’t this include a balancing view? Certainly, many people believe that there is such a crisis, but lots of people don’t. The idea climate change threatens the health, safety and economic well-being of people worldwide is an assertion, not a fact.
The involvement of Reuters in CCN seems to me to be in direct contradiction to three of its 10 Hallmarks of Reuters Journalism – Hold Accuracy Sacrosanct, Seek Fair Comment, Strive For Balance and Freedom From Bias.
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When I became Reuters global Science and Technology Correspondent in the mid-1990s, the global warming story was top of my agenda. Already by then the BBC was scaring us saying we would all die unless humankind mended its selfish ways. Carbon dioxide (CO2) was the culprit and had to be tamed, then eliminated. I had no reason to think this wasn’t established fact. I was wrong.
My Reuters credentials meant that I had easy access to the world’s finest climate scientists. To my amazement, none of these would say categorically that the link between CO2 and global warming, now known as climate change, was a proven scientific fact. Some said human production of CO2 was a probable cause, others that it might make some contribution; some said CO2 had no role at all. Everybody agreed that the climate had warmed over the last 10,000 years as the ice age retreated, but most weren’t really sure why. The sun’s radiation, which changes over time, was a favoured culprit.
My reporting reflected the wide range of views, with Reuters typical “on the one hand this, on the other, that” style. But even then, the mainstream media seem to have run out of the energy required, and often lazily went along with the BBC’s faulty, opinionated thesis. It was too much trouble to make the point that the BBC’s conclusion was challenged by many impressive scientists.
Fast forward 20 years and firm proof CO2 was warming the climate still hasn’t been established, but politics has taken over. Sure, there are plenty of computer models with their hidden assumptions ‘proving’ man is guilty as charged, and the assumption that we had the power and knowledge to change the climate became embedded.
The Left had lost all of the economic arguments by the 1990s, and its activists eagerly grabbed the chance to say free markets and small government couldn’t save us from climate change; only government intervention could do that. Letting capitalism run free was a certain way to ensure the end of the planet; smart Lefties should take charge and save us from ourselves.
The debate about climate change is far from over. I’m not a scientist so I don’t know enough to say it’s all man-made or not. But politicians and lobbyists have decided that we are all guilty. They are in the process of dismantling our way of life, ordering us to comply because it’s all for the future and our children. If we are going to give up our civilization, at the very least we ought to have an open debate. Journalists need to stand up and be counted. The trouble is that requires bravery and energy, and an urge to question conventional wisdom.
Reuters should be leading this movement. All it has to do is stand by its 10 Hallmarks. And maybe tell CCN thanks but no thanks; it needs to apply Reuters principles to its climate reporting.
Forgot to name the author — ‘Neil Winton worked as a journalist at Reuters for 32 years, including as global Science and Technology Correspondent. He writes at Winton’s World.”
Even so, CCN isn’t a regulatory body, and it has no real authority or constituency among activists. Why have these media outlets decided to abandon proper journalistic practice and principles to instead use stealth methods to make claims unsupported by data and science? Winton believes that the industry has deliberately advanced climate hysteria to generate a sense of emergency that will allow the Left to gain what it could not get through reasoned argument and debate:
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This corruption of news reporting into narrative journalism has been apparent for years to climate-hysteria skeptics. Until recently, however, that revolution-by-evolution process hadn’t become apparent to most of the rest of the populace. Now, however, with all sorts of new data coming out about masks and natural immunity in the COVID pandemic, many more people have seen The Science® exposed as based entirely on political agenda. The mainstream-media refusal to cover new and conclusive meta-analyses of scientific studies that refute their three-year narratives in support of government emergency rule now demonstrates that corruption on a much broader scale.
Expect to see a lot more skepticism on the Sky Is Falling narrative — and especially directed at those who keep trying to serve it up, either as entrées or side dishes.
Thanks, AF, for fleshing that out…
Just another scam…
Just another “crisis”…
I guess that by now, it should be recognized that we’re deep in the midst of the “softening-up” stage….
IOW (to borrow from Kipling**) when the Powers that Be deem that encouraging/causing/compelling everyone to enter “panic mode”—to “lose their heads” on a consistent basis—is a primary plank of POLICY…so that they can manipulate the populace into needing to believe that their perfidy is really “virtue”; that their venality is really “caring”; that their rampant criminality is really “lawfulness”….
That there is NO Truth except what they decide it to be, need it to be…
Yes, the softening-up stage…so that the reality is that we’re all ON the front lines. We are all IN the trenches. There is no, as it were, “home front”…
(A variation on Schicklegruber’s “TOTAL WAR”…or, more likely, Stalinist “reality”.)
**“If you can keep your head when all about you. Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too…”
I got sucked into the Maelstrom with shipwreckedcrew.
Here’s a post with the best explanation I’ve seen anywhere of where and why and how the FBI went off the rails, in the context of discussing the report fingering traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.
I won’t try to summarize; readers here are probably familiar with the quality of his work, and the topic is important, so jump on board and read the whole thing.
I will add this, as an explanation of what he’s been doing for some time now that’s kept him from posting on Hot Air or elsewhere.
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From “The Fault is Not in Our Stars but in Ourselves” File?…
“Biden Pitches Tax Hike On High-Earners To Solve Medicare Funding Crisis”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-wants-tax-hike-high-earners-solve-medicare-funding-crisis
Of course, to be fair to “POTUS”, the money that “Biden” (the MOST POPULAR, MOST CORRUPT, MOST DESTRUCTIVE “POTUS” in history—hmm, wonder what the connection might be?) needs to dish out to all “his” supporters in the bankrupt Dem-supporting unions, bankrupt Dem-supporting states, BANKRUPT Dem-supporting cities, BANKRUPT Dem-supporting media, BANKRUPT, Dem-supporting colleges and other BANKRUPT Dem-supporting institutions HAS TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE!
What’s a “POTUS” to do? (Especially a MOST CORRUPT ONE?)
After all, “he” really must live up to “his” reputation. One can understand the moral urgency…
+ Bonus (speaking of Dem-run cities):
‘ “Worst Violent Crime Surge In Three Centuries”: Op-Ed Says Philly Dem Voters Owe The City “An Apology” ‘—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/worst-violent-crime-surge-three-centuries-op-ed-says-philly-dem-voters-owe-city-apology
Alas, this article only really makes sense if it’s referring to all the voters who voted a dozen times or all the dead voters or all the non-existent voters or non-US-citizen voters. OTOH, is it really their fault if the Democratic Party enables—and thrives on—this kind of “FORTIFICATION”…?
(I suppose we could also blame all those Republican voters who enabled their votes to be lost or trashed…)
File under: Putting the cart before the horse….
I just saw this, so apologies if previously posted…
“California Fleein” – from the Babylon Bee….
https://babylonbee.com/video/california-fleein-beach-boys-parody
Ah. He was warned about his career path and has a paying “day job.”
I had forgotten how long dark matter had been lurking around as a patch to model problems.
I’m willing to concede that it is at least possible that some of the basic principles of physics might be different in an extremely remote part of the universe; not that I’d like it as an assumption. But I didn’t like the shot he seems to take at mathematics itself.
Seems to me that he justifiably doesn’t like the Rube Goldberg or band-aid style of these mathematical models, but that’s not a reason to complain about mathematics itself. Maybe it’s just a symantical misstep that he or I made.
Nice Liz,
The sax player really made me laugh. The point about rainbow churches is really a true point. Well, it’s not the rainbow part I find objectionable, but rather the other Marxist claptrap.
From the cosmos to the bozos:
“The shaky foundations of climate change….”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2023/02/26/former-reuters-science-reporter-the-media-is-lying-about-co2-and-a-climate-crisis/
Shaky? How ’bout non-existent…?
Key phrase:
“…the media has transformed itself into a propaganda amplifier…”
its possible, copernicus and galileo, developed certain notions from their point of view
the bigger picture
https://the-pipeline.org/a-guide-to-operation-prison-camp/
“Biden Pitches Tax Hike On High-Earners To Solve Medicare Funding Crisis”
And if Republicans oppose it, they are idiots. Who is financially enabling and socially promoting almost ALL of the toxic elements in U.S. society? Rich people. Not all, of course, but the ones who haven’t have been largely silent and refused to do anything about it.
Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.
Mike
I take comfort in the probability that great inventors can build great spaceships to explore our solar system, without the need to “pick a side” in such metaphysics / physics debates.
I do not mean to suggest that these debates are irrelevant, only that their resolution is not (yet) an impediment to an exciting future. An exciting future is what Elon Musk is selling, and it is compelling and healthy for society.
Let Novak in, Joe! (By boat, ya ninnie.): https://mobile.twitter.com/jhaskinscabrera/status/1633203190970691585
I like DeSantis’s idea to get Djokovic in by ferry from the Bahamas. His exclusion over a vaccine which does not prevent infection is ridiculous. Even the Aussies let him in!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KVxDT3EfFQ
Donna Butterworth begins her number around 3:30
Cosmology: Ah yes, just another field of endeavor where the science is settled!!
What I found interesting in the video is the difficulty cosmologists have in “breaking” with the existing paradigm; they seem to be shackled to the existing theory and are loath to present alternative theories (especially when research funding can be at risk or even granting, or not, tenure). They would rather just develop (mathematical) add-on’s to the existing theory to force it to comport with new observations.
But at least in cosmology/physics new observations will eventually compel them to come up with a new, better theory.
MBunge, one might indeed sympathize…except it would seem that THE problem—or A problem—is that “Biden” is (by design, of course) only making hyper-inflation hyperer….
IOW, EVERYONE suffers, especially the not-so-wealthy (AKA the poor, in which direction the middle class is going, by “Biden”‘s tailor-made, insidiously clever design) because—and here’s the grand refrain—sing loud! “We’re all in this togethuh!” (Besides, suffering IS ennobling doncha’ know…oh, and UNIFYING!)
…To which end:
“Biden To Propose 5.2% Raise For Federal Employees; Republicans, Unions Slam”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-propose-52-raise-federal-employees-republicans-slam
Question: But how can “he” do this!!! Aren’t we thufferin’ enough as it is??
Answer: “Cuz, you chumps—“I” mean, ahem, mah fellah Amurri-amurri-amurrikinz—“we” look after our people!!!”
File under: What hyper-inflation??
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“Even the Aussies…”
Heh, got that right!
“Perth Mint Sold Billions In Diluted Gold To China, Tried To Cover It Up…”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/perth-mint-sold-billions-doped-gold-china-tried-cover-it-report
Hey, this should be fun!
“Ex-DHS Disinformation Czar Jankowicz says will comply with GOP subpoena;
“Jordan said she refused multiple requests to voluntarily testify.”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/former-disinformation-board-head-says-she-will-comply-gop-subpoena
Don’t have the slightest idea why Ms. “They Don’t Call Me ‘Disinfo Czar’ for Nuthin” should want to stone wall. (Though quite possibly, she needed some prep time…that is, time to learn how to say “Sorry, I didn’t hear (or don’t understand) your question” or “I don’t think that’s valid (legitimate)” or I don’t know” and/or “I can’t remember” in different intonations, modulations, attitudes and poses”…)
Of course, she didn’t quite say WHEN she’d actually show up. She sounds like one really busy person…
the problem is the debt we’re incurring is crowding out required expenditures like medicare, yes the richest do seem to funding most of the prog termites,
wait for next musical number, i’d rather use the agonizer from classic trek
Art Carney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wazS4ZQJYM4
Signals of unknown, unknowable, assumed fidelity. That said, science is a philosophy, a practice, a logical space in the near-domain with cause.
“Biden Pitches Tax Hike On High-Earners To Solve Medicare Funding Crisis”
Medicare, Medicaid/Obamacares, too, are around 80% unfunded, and the principal drivers of government deficits, natonal debt, and progressive prices (“inflation”).
Not even with shared responsibility. He’s several trillion dollars short of the mark.
That said, the evidence is that the fault lies in progressive prices forced by single/central/monopolistic solutions, not in cost of services and goods.
Caroline Glick Show, “Politics is poisoning the IDF”, a conversation with retired Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi: https://youtu.be/EdeP2DSW49Q
Sobering stuff.
I watched part of the video and gave up. The talk reminded me of the saying that philosophers are as useful to physicists as ornithologists are to birds.
There is a problem in cosmology with dark matter and dark energy that reminds me of the problem of the wave nature of light in the early 1800’s, well before it became understood as an electromagnetic phenomenon. The only known waves were either sound waves in gases, liquids, and solids which are “longitudinal” waves or transverse waves like those on the surface of water. Light could propagate through a vacuum, hence that had to be a luminiferous ether filling space that carried the light. The problem was that no one could detect it and it was definitively proved wrong by the Michelson-Morley experiment. It required a complete change of thinking brought about by Einstein and special relativity.
Dark matter presents a similar problem in cosmology. The outer arms of the spiral galaxies rotate too fast given the amount of observed matter out there assuming Newtonian gravity, hence the need for the dark matter. The problem with dark matter is that no one has been able to detect it in experiments, despite all the different candidate subatomic particle types that have been proposed in the last 30 to 40 years. There is a theory called Mond which solves the problem, and several others, by making a tiny change to Newtonian gravity instead. Is it correct, only time will tell?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics
re Barry Meislin – “…the media has transformed itself into a propaganda amplifier…” Indeed: OUR government is now ALLOWED to CREATE PROPAGANDA tailored specifically for U.S. public consumption, using ANY media as it sees fit, while remaining ANONYMOUS as to the source of the material being reported. https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/smith-mundt-modernization-act-2012
“Smith-Mundt Modernization Act”, eh?
More like “Smith-Mundt Transformation Act”.
That Obama guy—he one pretty clevuh fellah…
‘American Masters: Dr Tony Fauci’ coming to your PBS station on March 21.
American Masters!
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/anthony-fauci-documentary/23072/
My own pet theorizing is that the physics parameters probably depend on how close you are to the boundary of the universe if the universe itself is the thing expanding (into what is it expanding, by the way?). In other words, it is an assumption that that the physical laws are homogenous throughout this universe, which it is claimed is expanding. This might well be the source of the discrepancies, or it could be that the model of an expanding universe is wrong, or something else entirely.
So its very theoretical there isnt evidence of it just conjecture
Back to the agonizer
“Biden Pitches Tax Hike On High-Earners To Solve Medicare Funding Crisis”
And if Republicans oppose it, they are idiots. Who is financially enabling and socially promoting almost ALL of the toxic elements in U.S. society? Rich people. — MBunge
You are not entirely wrong, but … The history is long and clear that these things don’t work the way people think they do.
Within a several years of implementing the fed. income tax, the top rate hit 77% and hit 94% in 1944. People who have looked at the tax records for those years claim that exceedingly few people actually paid it. Because the most wealthy either have political connections (with exclusions built into the legislation) or can find dodges to skirt the tax. Those moderately well off people who don’t have either of those get stuck with the tax.
My wife used to do volunteer work with a small group of nice people, and during the Obama years one of them talked about a hard working friend who had opened a retail store that was beginning to do really well. “He made over $350K last year,” this person boasted. My wife piped up, “Oh, so he’s going to pay Obama’s wealthy tax then.”
“What?? No. My friend isn’t one of those wealthy people.”
“Over $250K is the starting point,” she replied.
Thomas corcoran who was behind the tax hikes also created the tax shelter industry
What’s really going to happen is that Biden & Co. are going to squeeze Medicare Advantage programs, taking benefits away from the relatively lower-income seniors who use these plans to keep their medical costs down. Traditional Medicare plus a Medigap plan plus a Part D drug plan add up all together to quite a bit of money. We do that because we don’t want to be restricted in what doctors we can see. So far, I think the government is ahead, considering what we pay vs. the things they pay for, but we haven’t had anything really serious (yet).
Kate: “… but we haven’t had anything really serious (yet).” I gather that the bulk of resources spent on medical care happen during the last one to two years of life. Kind of like going bankrupt: slowly and then fast.
On the video: philosophy seems to have bumped up against the same issues as religion. As we learned more about biology, evolution, genetics, proteins, hormones, etc., we need to ask what portions of our mental actions or activities are determined by genetics and pure physiology (basically as inherent reactions); and what elements/ fraction are determined or derived from culture? Sex at birth is determined by the X vs Y complement of our chromosomes, while we dress babies in pink or blue outfits based on culture.
We have tendencies to be social, cooperative with our in-group, exhibit a sense of “fairness”, etc., but we conduct business via contracts, do the best we can to obtain “justice” via defined (experience based) legal principles and practices, etc.
Sorting out which is which is not receiving as much attention as it might, although I understand that Daniel Dennett incorporates ideas about evolutionary into his philosophical musings.
Biden Inc is already taxing the middle class to fund Democrat social priorities.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/07/how-team-biden-is-getting-more-and-more-corporations-to-do-its-bidding/
Glenn Reynolds
@ Griffin > “‘American Masters: Dr Tony Fauci’ coming to your PBS station on March 21.”
I like the Superhero Universe version.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqtzL4qXsAA_qgT?format=jpg&name=medium
@ Barry – Blazingcatfur was commenting on this story.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/23/when-i-covered-climate-change-for-reuters-i-thought-co2-was-to-blame-for-rising-temperatures-i-was-wrong/
Forgot to name the author — ‘Neil Winton worked as a journalist at Reuters for 32 years, including as global Science and Technology Correspondent. He writes at Winton’s World.”
More commentary from Ed Morrissey; a short overview of Winton’s post with the most important excerpts.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/02/24/former-reuters-science-reporter-the-media-is-lying-about-co2-and-a-climate-crisis-n532936
Thanks, AF, for fleshing that out…
Just another scam…
Just another “crisis”…
I guess that by now, it should be recognized that we’re deep in the midst of the “softening-up” stage….
IOW (to borrow from Kipling**) when the Powers that Be deem that encouraging/causing/compelling everyone to enter “panic mode”—to “lose their heads” on a consistent basis—is a primary plank of POLICY…so that they can manipulate the populace into needing to believe that their perfidy is really “virtue”; that their venality is really “caring”; that their rampant criminality is really “lawfulness”….
That there is NO Truth except what they decide it to be, need it to be…
Yes, the softening-up stage…so that the reality is that we’re all ON the front lines. We are all IN the trenches. There is no, as it were, “home front”…
(A variation on Schicklegruber’s “TOTAL WAR”…or, more likely, Stalinist “reality”.)
**“If you can keep your head when all about you. Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too…”
I got sucked into the Maelstrom with shipwreckedcrew.
Here’s a post with the best explanation I’ve seen anywhere of where and why and how the FBI went off the rails, in the context of discussing the report fingering traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.
https://shipwreckedcrew.substack.com/p/the-fbi-declares-traditional-catholics
I won’t try to summarize; readers here are probably familiar with the quality of his work, and the topic is important, so jump on board and read the whole thing.
I will add this, as an explanation of what he’s been doing for some time now that’s kept him from posting on Hot Air or elsewhere.
Subscription fees at Substack will help cover the basic operating expenses at his legal office.