@yuma_8 @grant ok. Fair enough.

@Shadows I'm actually quite sad that it still stands as the best governing document. It means we really haven't made as much progress as we'd probably like to think.

Progress isn't a straight line, it has ups and downs.
But would you say the same about the bible?

yes

but maybe that's just our limitations humans

The one thing we can never get away from.

Yes. There are limitations that come from being human.

The difference between all good and basically good is inherently evil. The left doesn’t understand this.

talking about the constitution reminds me that Ginsburg pointed to the south African constitution as a better model than the US contitution.

Lmao

By the way, I'm not saying we should discard those documents or that their bad. But we should have new documents that take all the good things from them and improve. The constitution drew from past documents and tried to improve upon them.

Problem is, the only “improvement” people have been clamouring for is related to the general welfare bullshit

And it’s definitely not for the better

And we have made the constitution better since then and in some places worst (that's why i said it has ups and downs).

@Deleted User That's why they're regressives.

Yee doggie.

They done sure made it worse now.

For taxes, I would love to see a flat tax for all with zero deductions. I would also accept the abolishment of the income tax in favor or a national sales tax. Though any changes to taxes is a moot point due to the complete ineptness of Congress to pass a reasonable budget.

Making a better tax system would be nice, and i might have to think about it more. But i think i favor a flat tax.

Flat tax sounds like the best system to me. Technically speaking it is the "fairest" tax system, just not the kind of fair, the progressives are rambling on about!

this story will be interesting to watch....https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/us/los-angeles-teachers-strike/index.html

hahahahahaha He wants to use 100 million $ to cover 600k people....Thats 166$ per year per person.....he is so off in his math he would likely need 2-3 billion at least....https://abc7ny.com/politics/mayor-de-blasio-announces-health-care-for-all-nyc-residents/5034167/

Its nothing new that most of them don't know how to math.

On the plus side, if they are also playing for undocumented immigrants, maybe we could get some better numbers on how many there are in NYC

I don't think it will happen De Blasio is running for re-election and I think this is just to distract the Progressives of NYC to vote for him cause they hate him over the Amazon HQ stuff...

Ya, none of this will work, was just a wonder heh

They will test it for a bit, run out of money and have to beg for more, or close the program.

Depends on what is being counted under healthcare
*you'll never have to buy Buckleys again bro*

I also don't think he can do it just from the Mayors office....Seems like this would be such a big decision the City Council would need to vote on it...

After reading that article about the teachers union strike, I've never been as big a supporter of scabs as I am right now.

Scabs?

How can I not find the video of him doing this? https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/01/08/meteorologist-fired-using-racist-slur-martin-luther-king-jr-says-it-was-an-accident/?utm_term=.e880352fa7d2

The people that got hired to do the job that people on strike aren't doing are called scabs. I don't know why.

Oh. Ok.

Teacher unions need to go.

Idk if it’s related but scabs here mean people who leech off of things

Typically leftover food

From restaurants, groceries, etc

So... maybe because they’re technically not needed but because the people meant to do something aren’t doing it, they’re just there as stop gaps?

Scab is just meant as an insult by all the losers on strike who want to get paid to sit on their worthless asses while real men roll their sleeves up

I don’t care for unions