Comments by "John Warner" (@johncrwarner) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1. Doesn't Rush Limbaugh live in Palm Beach, Florida? So I assume he is staying put and not doing any defensive work on his property for when Irma hits...
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  2. Here in Germany because of our history we are very averse to referendums like the ones that the current owner and CEO of Twitter is conducting THey were a tool in our history of the far right to get what they wanted with a veneer of popular support.
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  3. And the guy at Breitbart doesn't care because he has moved on to making other unfounded allegations against other people.
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  4. "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." Archimedes was a real person who was killed in the seige of Syracuse in the second Punic War. He knew his mathematics and science and added to our knowledge unlike George Will seems to have done.
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  5. The hall of non-presidents is the Adlai Stevenson Room.
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  6. "How could you prove it?" stains on the dress?
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  7. @Zakdayak It is not my thinking it is Daniel Kahneman who did research at Princeton on this and it is in Kahneman's book "Thinking, fast and slow" and I recommend it as an interesting read.
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  8. They (the Republicans) have a 19th century view of the deserving and the undeserving poor. It is a spurious and malicious idea which outside their world is useless.
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  9. The interesting question is why do these "savvy" billionaires keep pouring money into these scams? Surely there are better ways to spend your money than funding the lifestyles of the like of Dick Armey.
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  10. @jag10 I didn't make the evidence for the ceiling in happiness up - Daniel Kahneman (a psychologist) has done work on this and it is based on US surveys and research. After $75 000 there is no increase in happiness caused by increase in having more income. The evidence suggests that helping the poor helps the well-being in society more than making the rich richer.
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  11. Herbert Spencer, the founder of Social Darwinism, came too with the phrase "the survival of the fittest" when he was using and some say abusing Darwin's ideas and applying them to economic and social theory. It is not a helpful phrase to explain actual darwinism.
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  12. For federal elections there should be a federal standard for voting access so all these voter suppression laws aren't in states hands.
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  13. <parody> They were Trump appointments BUT... were they TRUMPY enough? </parody>
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  14. Interestingly the Conservative government in Britain withdrew mortgage tax relief.
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  15. The evidence suggests that as people earn more money, their day-to-day happiness rises. Until you hit $75,000. After that, it is just more stuff, with no gain in happiness. So getting people to that sort of income is imperative - and it can be done by taxing the rich.
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  16. The problem is that "natural" and is usually opposed to "artificial" and that would apply to something that is made from non-biological organic components - processing natural products still leaves then a natural product. It will be hard to prove otherwise.
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  17. Susan G Komen are heading for a PR disaster which will mean there funding will go down the pan. Sad, sad, sad.
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  18. The more interesting question is "what is the model used for the predictions like and is it still robust?" Being right can be by chance - the question is not whether they are right so much as whether they help us now to understand.
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  19. The anecdotal evidence is that first that when a film is shown on television sales of the DVD go up afterwards, second that the big media companies do the leaking.
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  20. You make some interesting assumptions about "taxing the hell out of the rich", "they will move there (sic) money to another country" and "you are part of the problem in our country!!" - who said anyone will tax the hell out of the rich, who said they can and will move their money abroad and which country are you referring to. I live in Germany and I suspect you do not.
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  21. It is easy to be a libertarian when you are a fit healthy teenager or in your early twenties - when you think you are invincible and are not going to die. When health problems kick in we all seem to change our minds at least in private.
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  22. The headline figure for Corporate Tax is bizarrely high and has hardly been altered even when the Republicans have controlled the House and Senate. Then you look at the fact that as a percentage of GDP the Corporate Tax has been dropping - now that is interesting and implies that the Legislature has been altering the effective tax rate by granting lots of loopholes so the headline rate is very misleading indeed.
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  23. I am not sure where you get your figures for Corporate taxation levels - historically they seem to be at an all time low and in comparison within the OECD they are the low if not the lowest.
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  24. wrt the right to pray - I wonder what would happen if you claimed sacrificing my first born up a mountain was my form of praying to God, I bet the state would be down on me like a ton of bricks.
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