Frank wrote on Jul 31^st, 2022 at 2:22pm:


To be fair to Groggy we ought to give him some slack as he only has 1 brain cell these days.

Mortdooley wrote on Jul 31^st, 2022 at 11:07pm:


The Gateway Pundit (TGP) is an American far-right fake news website.

The website is known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories.

Mortdooley wrote on Jul 31^st, 2022 at 11:07pm:


Yep! It's encouraging to know there are a some alert posters on this forum Mortdooly!

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 1^st, 2022 at 1:11am:


Yes

AusGeoff wrote on Jul 31^st, 2022 at 10:41pm:


When it comes to politics and the like Wikipedia is nothing more than a propaganda machine.

I'll ask again, where are the 'falsehoods and hoaxes' in that article?

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There's a thing or two you need to know about PolitiFact:

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/06/06/politifcked-an-office-manger-from-florid...

Mortdooley wrote on Aug 1^st, 2022 at 11:33pm:


Yes well... when  the 50% live paycheck to paycheck  (or worse), it's reasonable for the one-percenters to pay more in tax, as Gates and Buffet have both agreed.   

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er ...you have that back to front: raising wages (if supply is constrained) raises the prices of goods and services because companies pass the costs on, to maintain profit margins.   But wages of the working class have to be sufficient to create sufficient spending power to support the economy.

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Yes please do.

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So don't tax anyone.... should be an interesting show to watch...

Mortdooley wrote on Jul 31^st, 2022 at 11:07pm:


To seriously believe that Wikipedia is merely a source of "opinion"
only is erroneous.  The fact that it's edited in real time by people
like you and me ensures that it's not simply peoples' personal
opinions—it's effectively peer reviewed, constantly, and often by
highly accredited professionals in all fields of the sciences and the
humanities, and politics and economics.  That you take "everything"
on Wikipedia with a large grain of salt only limits your own knowledge
of world affairs by blinding you to 99% of its relevant content.

And to describe Politifact as a "liberal" pay site is truly absurd. It's a
nonprofit project operated by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg,
Florida.

It's been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, with TIME
magazine "characteriz[ing] PolitiFact as having the "hard-earned and
important position as referee in the mudslinging contest—a 'truth
vigilante,' as it were", and "PolitiFact is trying to do the right thing here.
And despite the efforts of partisans to work the refs by complaining
about various calls they’ve made in the past, they’re generally doing a
hard, important thing well. They often do it better than the rest of the
political media, and the political press owes them for doing it."

thegreatdivide wrote on Aug 1^st, 2022 at 11:45pm:



I can see how you are lost in the weeds on this.

The majority of people who live paycheck to paycheck seem quite content to do so as long as their "house of cards" doesn't fall. To them money is like ripe fruit, use it as soon as possible. It isn't a habit of just the poor, many middleclass are just as bad. Where I worked people with identical wages some retired with nothing but a little pension and others left with more than a million dollars. All had the same opportunities, the difference was the choices they made during their working lives.

Taxes are just one more cost of doing business and as expenses go up so does the price charged.

There was a time when there was no income tax and the government lived on the fees and duties it charged. It even contributed to starting a war between the States when legislation required the less populated South to pay most of the expense of running the government. All of the personal income tax collected today goes to pay the interest on the national debt.