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(LFC). Walker Wins! New Budget Repeals Tenure, Slashes U-Wisconsin Budget
As a former junior professor in the UW System (not Madison) who actually saw his own potential tenure threatened by an area senior professor his very first semester there, I have never believed in tenure; good quality professors are in demand and don't need the guarantee. In a world of college tuition loan bubbles and a challenging global economy, states have to get costs under control. I suspect we'll see some system consolidations, even branch closures. But this is a clear step foward, and kudos to the Wisconsin legislature and the leadership of Scott Walker.
(National Review). On the lesbian couple receiving $135,000 in "emotional damages" from Christian bakers with five children who declined to participate in a same-sex wedding ceremony.
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Cherry picking the truth as usual, National Review.
The fine was because these guys released the couples address and contact into on their Facebook page. The "emotional damage" was in death threats they received, thanks to the bakers.
RETARD PATHOLOGICAL LIAR! First of all, parties in a legal suit is a matter of public record, RETARD! Even if the allegations are true that the lesbians' contact information was published on any website, that is protected by the First Amendment, is not privileged information. If anyone harassed the complainants, the burden of proof is on the claimants. And I love how this hypocritical fascist OP completely ignores the very fact of the very real threats made against the Christian bakery by his fascist allies.
For the record, from the July 4 LA Times, "The former owners of an Oregon bakery have been ordered to pay $135,000 to a lesbian couple who were refused a wedding cake, in the latest front in the battle between religious liberty and individual rights.
Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian ordered Aaron and Melissa Klein, who owned the Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakery in Gresham, Ore., to compensate the couple for emotional and mental suffering that resulted from the denial of service."
The damages were handed down to reflect harassment, not as a fine for refusal of service. Why does National Review continue to flog a false story?
LIAR. The First Amendment is not negotiable. The July 4 LA Times reported the "pain and suffering" fine. As other RETARDS, you ignore the fact that your fellow fascists have harassed the bakers at least 100 times worse.
NB: The claims made by these two "progressive" trolls that ticked me off seem to be based off an erroneous Raw Story post that has since been corrected, Eugene Volokh from my blogroll recently corrected this false talking point in this Washpo op-ed.
(National Review). Let's pull out some proof that Donald J. Trump is a fraud.
Trump is a dimwitted populist windbag who has ZERO credibility with the independents who will carry the balance of the 2016 election. I've had it with "finger-in-wind" unprincipled windbag politicians like President Zipper, Romney, and Trump. In a year when you have quality candidates like Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, who offer a genuinely newer, fresher face to the GOP and conservatism, anyone voting for "Four Bankruptcies" Trump is also a loser.
(IPI). Alderman Joe Moreno 1st Ward has proposed taxing smokeless tobacco at 30% in an effort to pay down some part of the city’s $30 billion pension debt.
But Chicago's financial shortfall is far too large for a minor sin tax to make a dent.
This is a regressive tax and fits in very well with the populist tyrannical "tax the other guy" pitch. The old supply/demand curve: you increase the cost of smokeless tobacco, you sell less of it. On the Laffer curve, depending on your legacy tax base, your relevant tax revenue could actually shrink--at minimum, your revenue will be less than expected at a current volume of sales.
(FEE). Socialism and economic planning have a long and close connection with war and militarization.
So does Capitalism. I pretty sure every economic stand point, if it works, is connected to domination and war.
Don't be a retard, Under capitalism, the consumer is the target; killing your customers is bad for business. There's an old saw, often attributed to Bastiat to the effect: "If goods don't cross borders, armies will."
Like the profiteering of the "Congressional Military Industrial Complex" doesn't? Give me a freaking break FEE.
Sometimes you're just too funny. You focus too much on the ills of "socialism" and not enough on the ills of capitalism.
Here's a question, how does the "socialism" of the Mondragon experiment bode in your utopic capitalist society? Seem pretty peaceful and enterprising if you ask me.
My God, another idiot troll who actually thinks that he knows something. The military industrial complex is an artifact of Statism/authoritarianism and political populism stoked by fearmongering, not capitalism. You are so ignorant of economic history. Consider the huge military budget under WWII; Keynesians predicted an economic collapse without all this government spending. But despite a steep drop in military expansion, the domestic economy boomed. When the government is the consumer, will it attract even dedicated suppliers? Of course, But this is the artifact of Big Government, which plunders the rest of the economy.
It's not surprising a "progressive" troll finds a version of fascism he likes. mises.org and FEE, among free market portals, have a lot of material involving "progressive" pipe dreams like the myth of Scandinavian socialism. Tom Woods basically addresses your implicit garbage anti-capitalism in this piece.
And Denny, there can be no corporations without the state, and no capitalism without corporations. Incorporation is a process by which the state forcibly transfers risk from owners of property to non-owner
The OP is an idiot. Corporations are little more than voluntary associations, an extension of individual rights. And the limited liability you mention (my God, can't you ideological leftists find anything new to talk about?), is little more than variation on the themes of contracts and insurance; Kinsella dispatches such nonsense here:
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