Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Face the Nation" channel.

  1. +SodaBoy628 In 1967 there were 155 Americans earning over $200,000 that years and paid zero taxes. One of them earned over $23 million. Why do you think the Tax Reform Act of 1969 was passed?
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  2. +SodaBoy628 http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4020&context=clr Page 173, and that is just one of many I can provide. That fact that you immediately went to "Fox News" shows you lack interest in actually learning the subject, but hopefully you can learn this.
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  3. +SodaBoy628 Ok, try page 413. The link went to a different article which is the same, just numbered differently. "People like you are why Americans have a bad reputation in other countries." A little butt hurt when you get proven wrong.
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  4. +SodaBoy628 I stated the fact and even cited it and it was not from Fox News.
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  5. +grvonny Out of everyone running I feel that John Kasich is the best. He has flaws but no where near as mean as Bernie. At least John has understanding of economics.
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  6. +grvonny How does John Kasich believe in corporate welfare? Corporations earn a lot of profits to keep shareholders happy. That means better goods and services for the consumer at a lower price and more convenient locations. The consumer benefits in that situation.
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  7. +Joe Greg If you are rich than you provided society with something they demanded already. You are making it sound like that someone who is rich is naturally born that way.
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  8. +calum morrison If you raise the min. wage than there will be kids who won't have any job.
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  9. +grvonny College is expensive due to the federal government as well.
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  10. +Ezequiel Aguilar I don't agree with corporate welfare either.
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  11. +Ezequiel Aguilar I guess you didn't read my next comment where I corrected the page number. The original document I read had a page 173, the one I linked (same one overall, different link) had it on a different page "dumbass".
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  12. +grvonny The amount of money someone has means nothing if we don't have any wealth. We need to grow wealth. Buy doing that goods and services get better and cheaper. Money is meaningless if people don't have wealth.
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  13. +grvonny I am not saying that. You need to learn that wealth does not equal income. In order to get wealth you have to develop it. Wealth only exist when one develops it. When you learn that wealth does not equal income then we can move on with the discussion.
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  14. +grvonny Wealth does not start with money. You can have wealth and no money. If someone values something they can obtain it without money. Money was created to solve two problems in the market, the double incidents of wants problem, and the retention of value problem. But as a whole you don't need money to have wealth. Definition of wealth is : a large amount of money and possessions: the value of all the property, possessions, and money that someone or something has: a large amount or number Money is involved but it does not start there. "starving wage" What exactly does that mean? You do know that we produce too much food as a society right now.
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  15. SD is 8th in deaths per capita. Also, they have seen the largest decline in active cases where other states haven't seen a decline in active cases yet. In all, SD did it right, they are done with covid.
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  16.  @garydunn3868  and there are states like NY, NJ, RI that did strict lockdowns and have higher deaths per capita. It really begs the question if lockdowns work. However, SD has seen their active cases drop down to 1/10 of their peak and they are at where they were in August where other states are just starting to see a drop in active cases. In all SD beat covid. They can live life while other states are still arguing if kids can go back to school.
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  17.  @garydunn3868  that is a fair argument, but now compare FL and CA, two states that are basically the same but different approaches. They end up with similar results with covid, but CA has a bad economy now. So it begs the question if the lockdowns work.
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  18.  @garydunn3868  SD is 8th in death per capita. Their death rate, of known cases, is 1.6% where the US average if 1.7%. SD has done very well. They did have advantages? Sure, but they also have disadvantages such as limited access to healthcare like a lot of rural places face. There are some places where people will have to drive over an hour to get to a hospital where in a state like NY they have quick access. I live in an urban area, I am within 20 minute walking distant of two hospitals. A rural town has no hospitals and have to drive an hour to get to the city.
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  19.  @garydunn3868  so you have no point.
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  20. No we aren't. Deaths are not going up.
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  21. Actually, "life" is not mentioned in the Constitution. And a "right to life" simply means government cannot take life away without due process. Also, states have seen varying results with the virus. FL and CA are, for all intents and purposes, are very similar overall and ended up with similar results of covid. CA shut down, FL did not.
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  22.  @katewaldron738  yeah, and rights are what the government cannot take away without due process. Also, there are states that done worse than SD with lockdowns. Just like FL and CA have similar results where FL ended their lockdowns, CA didn't. There are several reasons for the death rate. SD has the highest cases per capita, but a survival rate that is above the national average. Also, their active cases are now down to where they were before their spike where other states are now just seeing a drop. That means they reached herd immunity with a low death rate and not destroying their economy.
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  23.  @Syrnian  SD has seen their active case numbers drop the most. They are now back to their numbers they had in the summer after a spike. In all, SD beat the virus. Even with high cases their death rate is low. They are first in case per capita but 8th in death meaning that they had a high survival rate and also let the virus run its course and they are done.
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  24. It isn't just that, most on the left are using this as a paid vacation. Easy to push for lock downs when one has a paycheck like teacher unions for example.
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  25. Fauci is just pushing his 5 minutes of fame. He is not giving the full story and should not be trusted. Deaths are down. The 7 day average dropped again yesterday, but no one reports that.
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  26.  @thomaskim5394  "You do not want to listen to the leading medical experts' recommendation" If you are talking about Fauci what makes him the "leading medical expert"? Also, experts can disagree. There are experts out there that disagree with Fauci. And why trust Fauci? First the CDC director said we can open up schools, but later, after talking to teacher unions Fauci said we should get relief first. He is a hack.
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  27. @UCSi3oRunzwmNj67kQyEp_NQ which you need to compare South Dakota to something
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  28.  common since  where are you getting your numbers from because you are factually incorrect.
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  29.  common since  I used CDC numbers as well. Look at Worldometer who uses CDC numbers.
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  30.  common since  even going to the CDC site I see 7 states that have a higher death per 100,000 than SD.
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  31.  common since  you have no room to talk, you deny facts.
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  32.  common since  funny you say numbers when you are wrong on where SD and ND rank in deaths per capita.
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  33. @American Pie here is an issue to consider, access to healthcare. Many people in rural areas have very limited access to healthcare. I live in a city, I lie within a 20 minute walking distant from 2 hospitals. Now compared that to a time where my dad, who lives in a rural area, had to travel 45 minutes to the hospital for heart problems. So even at that SD had a high survival rate.
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  34.  @Clementine1966  close to 3 million die a year to begin with, many cases that are avoidable. We never shut down before.
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  35. No, it was actually great what we did. We have now seen what works and what doesn't. We are seeing that the lockdowns do not work and we need to open back up. However, some states are still refusing to open up schools.
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  36. The concept if lock downs work is not well supported. You compared SD to MN. Compare FL to CA now. CA had strict lock downs, FL did not. FL and CA have similar results even though FL has a much older population. Fact is that in SD they did not destroy businesses and jobs.
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  37. Uh, results vary. How did NY and NJ have higher death rates despite large lockdowns?
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  38. The issue is that the media never grills the left on these issues like these. If Noem was a democrat the media will be praising her as her state literally beat covid. Look at the active cases, they are low in SD where other states are now just seeing a decline. Yes, they are 8th in deaths per capita, but they are 1 in cases per capita. What does that mean? It means they have a high survival rate and they beat covid. They have herd immunity.
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  39. MMT is a joke.
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  40. And now their active cases are low where other states are now just starting to see a drop in active cases. And the survival rate is high. They beaten covid and are doing well.
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  41. Those who say universal healthcare would be cheaper are mistaken. What government funded program actually driven down cost? Other nations do it cheaper because they have lower quality, less R&D and their culture simply has healthier lifestyles with lower obesity and smoking rates. Fact is these ultra leftists have no clue what they are doing. They are promising these things to people with no clue how to fund them or manage them. AOC was asked how she will pay for them and her response was simply saying they will have to look at the tax code.
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  42. 786otto, why work when the government will provide you with everything you need? That will be my attitude along with the attitude of others. That is why socialism on a large scale never works. People become entitled and refuse to work.
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  43. Hauke Holst, 1. In European nations everyone pays higher taxes, not just the rich. In the US the top 10% earned 40% of the income but paid 70% of federal income taxes. That sounds like a "fair share" to me 2. US medical spending is higher because of our high quality and R&D. Also, we have many government regulations that drive up the cost. One is that no ER can deny services. People get care at the ER and cannot pay, so others pick up the cost. That is a form of universal healthcare. The US just refuses to lower the quality like other nations do. Also, insurance companies have too much power due to the lack of a free market. Despite what economic illiterates like AOC we do not have a capitalist system in healthcare. We have a higher regulated one that takes powers away from the consumers. 3. Defense spending has been dropping for years. $300 billion on healthcare would not put a dent in the total cost. Healthcare is close to a $4 trillion industry.
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  44. Kit's pics, the administrative cost is very deceptive. To start, medicare has the luxury of other government agencies to run certain programs. For examples, insurance pays for disease awareness where medicare has the CDC. Medicare has the IRS to collect revenue, insurance doesn't have that. Next, if you do a per patient cost Robert Book showed that medicare cost $509/patient where insurance cost $453/patient in administration cost. So medicare is more expensive.
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  45.  @aliciao.5731  NY and NJ had strict lockdowns, still do with higher death rates. SD is basically out of this. They have "flatten the curve" in active cases. NY still has high active cases.
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  46. And states like NJ and NY did harsh lockdowns and saw more deaths per million. Compare FL to CA, two states with a lot of similarities, different approaches, similar results. It begs the question if these lockdowns and masks even work.
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  47. Fredrik, the top 10% earn 40% of the income but pay 70% of federal income taxes. You point to corporations which are no people, so that is a completely different situation all together. As for your math, people who in the 1% are paid through multiple sources. Now if you want to complain about the complexity of our tax code I would agree. I support a flat income tax and a consumption tax. That's fair. But to ultra leftists what't "fair" is taxing the rich at a higher rate for arbitrary reasons.
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  48. CJ Davison, K-12 education is ran and funded locally. SS is running out of money. The VA is a mess.
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  49. Overall Retardation, Norway does many things that Bernie doesn't support. Norway has no min. wage, Bernie wants to double it. Norway has lower corporate taxes, Bernie wants to raise them. Norway produces more oil than the US, Bernie wants to reduce the production of oil. Also, a larger economy is more diverse and harder to micromanage. How many nations have 100+ million people, universal healthcare and are successful economically?
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  50. Overall Retardation, first off, don't use the phrase "living wage", it is 100% subjective. Next, unions can be strong if you have limited government. Nations like Norway have a free market when it comes to employer/employee relationships. In the US unions are some of the top donors in campaigns which is crony unionism. One of the reasons why the min. wage exists is because of unions use it as a negotiating tool in wages. In countries like Norway unions are strong as they have a free market system in that regards. That is the complete opposite of what Bernie wants. Less war will not come close to paying for Bernie's stuff. Defense spending is 4% of GDP, healthcare is 1/6 of GDP. Germany is very controlling in their system. They decide who can and cannot go to college. Culture plays a major role in and economic system. Compare Utah and Nevada, two neighboring states with different cultures. Look at how different their economies are.
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