- A spokesman who considers an independent public radio station with a Corporate Media station???? NY gun owners are being badly represented.
- Poor Mr. Tepper thinks a former EM is part of the Generals' club politically???
He & his DC bubble-speak are alway underwhelming.
- Unfortunately, the former VP couldn't clarify that the Union Pacific v. Santa Clara CTY decision IN ITS TEXT makes no mention of Corporate Personhood as any part of the decision.
The Court Clerk wrote a headnote with that "decision" prior to the decision being written. Thom Hartmann notes this & the decision itself is available at government & university & legal websites.
The headnote has been the basis of successive precedents & evidently there is no way to correct this legal travesty.
- To thatgirl. A more logical revision to FICA taxes is simply to lift the wage price ceiling & collect at the normal rate. Making "carried interest" and other income would simply increase the types of income covered.
Also, capital gains shouldn't be operative for assets held under at least 10 years. Held that long they are investments & not short-term bets.
- The Chained CPI is a people killer. As it is, the current CPI U/W measure is so poor that it doesn't even add actual spendable $ for retirees.
This year's SocSec COLA is 1.7% but Part B premiums go up 5% and Part D premiums are up 14.53% thus wiping out any real benefit increase.
- Repeal the salary cap on (SocSec)FICA taxes, make "carried-interest" regular income = no problem with Social Security.
Make Medicare/Medicaid universal with a single integrated medical record & health record + full coverage of dental, hearing, mental health & vision as well as nutrition & preventive care & many problems disappear.
- Move to repeal he GOP/FEDEX law that requires that USPS to prepay pensions. There are more things that need to be done, but it's a start.
- Mr. Mackey disregards the fact that US health insurance companies - including Part D providers - has 3x the overhead of CMS/Medicare.
Health insurance profits come partly from denials of service.
Also, health insurance companies have not even adopted the Medicare/Medicaid claim form or a universal health form which would reduce processing costs for health care providers by at least $700M/year, and probably more.
- Mr. Mackey's ignorance of fascism & socialism shows his unconsciousness.
The GOP borrowed Supply Side Economics from the Soviet Union & Nazi Germany where companies ran the government.
- What are the author's solutions to the obvious problems of favoritism, corruption that would come with his commander's freedom to hire/fire?
We already have enough trouble finding out about bad command decisions, hazing, rapes, etc.
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