if he wants to tax business with VAT, that could come out of employee's paychecks, reducing wages / it could cause inflation / it could discourage people from getting jobs if they want to live like rats together in the same house / the taxes could slow down business growth

those things would offset the positive effects, the "stimulus" to the economy by people spending

so it's not obvious it's an improvement

also robots have not taken all of our jobs and it's not necessary to resort to UBI

if the UBI really does discourage people from working, e.g., who wants to work for minimum wage when they can barely get by with their UBI? it might encourage these type of business to increase automation because people would rather not work there

i mean... so what if it is?

who cares if "x is a mental illness", what does it matter as long as the people aren't a danger to themselves or others

what does it mean that you don't support them

don't agree with their decision?

i'm not sure why you should "support" them anyway, lots of things people do you don't have to agree with

some of the trans stuff is verging on child abuse though like hormones from an early age like 12-13

gays and trans will always be a tiny minority anyway, so i doubt gay marriage is enough to change the structure of society

probably won't ever exceed like 2%, much less for trans

i don't think kids being raised by two moms or two dads is great, i think preference should be given to straight couples to adopt

probably and also benefit of both masculine and feminine influence is important, being raised by single parent is also not good

it is better than the kid living in an orphanage though

i'm fine with abortion being difficult and socially discouraged

it's not good... but legally it's hard to say what the best thing is, since people will do abortions anyway

or some people

it should be social taboo

if you compare the social perception with miscarriages... it's a really ugly thing. so abortion is intentional miscarrage, that's supposed to be ok?

abortion is an ugly thing

people trying to make it feminism or something is horrible

women's healthcare

just getting some cream for this rash and aborting this fetus

hahah

they vote dem because they think republicans are racist, because that's what the tv tells them, including univision spanish tv news

is fascism better than conservatism?

"The free market must be held subordinate to family values, and not the other way around as the conservatives have it."

is that fascism or just social conservatism

they can be legal residents too, but not citizens

in these discussions a lot of times people forget that

like binary between citizen and illegal

how is it calculated

wjat does it mean

intergeneration earnings are very elastic = bad ?

https://www.businessinsider.com/intergenerational-earnings-elasticity-2013-12

In a society with equal opportunity, a father's income would have no relation to that of his son (a correlation of 0). On the other hand, a country where jobs and income transition from one generation to the next would have a correlation of 1.

i think if it was 0 it would be bad, but if it's 1.0 it's also bad

probably being somewhere in the middle is good

you want to some degree have the success of the father to influence greater opportunities for the son, say, but you also want to give opportunities to other people

there's a balance between these two imo

at 0.0, intergenerational family business would cease to exist, and death/estate tax would be 100%, that is socialism

1.0 is obviously bad as well

do 90% of drugs come in through ports of entry

response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXZ6W8jjL2k

i remember when this line as repeated by NPR over and over

what aboout it? what ind of deal

i just joined it

oh "the killer was a TRS member"

i wonder hwat kind of deal they made