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Would it? Even if you tripled the food stamp budget, that's only about 220 billion, lets call it 250 billion. That sounds like a lot, but out of 3.8 trillion a year, it's certainly not a back breaker. We know from empirical evidence, everywhere it's been tried, that ending homelessness and...

It really doesn't matter what you call it. Capitalism's big sales pitch is that it drives efficiency. The endgame of that efficiency is that fewer and fewer workers will be needed to fulfill the needs of more and more people. Saying 'well, let's punish the unneeded people by not meeting...

The problem with the colossus tank is that it's going to dominate on Indar and be useless on Hossin.

I'm not saying this is a good idea. Cash transfers are generally pretty bad. If it were up to me? Make sure every person has at least some kind of apartment/dormitory with working heat and plumbing. People who own or rent their own home would get it as a tax credit, people who don't have a...

Well, no, the idea would be to just give the basic living stipend to EVERYONE, without means testing, so that it wouldn't have to be off the books income. That's the whole problem with our welfare system, it encourages you to make the most off the books income possible, and that creates a...

I would imagine many people would attempt to become entertainers working for tips. And by entertainers I mean like Twitch/Camwhores/actual whores. It probably wouldn't work out very well.

Isn't this how"I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell"ended?

Can I play a mute pacifist troll?

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Why are we even talking about taxes? Taxes and minimum wage have little-to-nothing to do with each other.

You keep continuing to conflating this. Your tax dollars aren't going to be taken to pay people if the minimum wage goes up.

Anyone making under ~20 dollars an hour basically spends all of their money coming in. Whatever more money you pay these people just becomes someone else's profit instantly. On the whole nothing would change here.

How many people do you personally employ at or near the minimum wage? How many minimum wage employing establishments do you spend significant shares of your income at? Would raising the minimum wage actually cost you anything substantially? I mean, technically it should lower your taxes...

That's because the ones who do work, don't get paid enough to drive the economy, and the ones who don't work are either old, sick, or don't have a proper pathway to work, or there just aren't jobs because our economy gets increasingly efficient and needs less and less workers to sustain more and...

Wendy's Spicy Chicken used to be pretty hot though it varied pretty wildly.

Our only food problem is an efficiency of distribution problem. We throw away a full half of the food we produce. We could easily feed everyone with no additional costs to the economy. There is no real cost to spread around. Even if there was a cost, it would be negligible, food is such a...

So far we've got serfdom, sharecropping and subsistence farming for ideas on how to solve our great national food (not)problem. Rerolled: proving its not just Muslims that want to take us back to the 13th century!

Sooooooooo many bottle blondes. I blame patriarchy or something. It amazes me that this video could be 10-15 years old and you'd never notice. Sorority girl style never changes.

Is this patch thing happening today?

Pot makes many people sleep a lot deeper, so you're going to remember your dreams less.

Well these people who don't have jobs aren't going to have money to buy land to farm. So, what're we going back to sharecropping now? Yeah, that system wasn't any more economically viable than serfdom. Seriously, l2economics. Green Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...

Well, what do you have the screensaver set on? Once it sits at the lock screen for a second the display is going to shut off anyway. So it depends on your lock screen timeout vs your screensaver timeout.

What the fuck are you talking about? Do you want to go back to a barter economy or something? Our food production is too efficient and too small a segment of the economy; there's no way there will ever be enough 'farm jobs' to support the number of people who actually need to eat...

I don't think you realize who the banks were selling loans to towards the end of that whole cycle. Mortgage brokers were going into communities where they didn't even speak English and signing people up for loans with ballooning payments that they knew they could never pay. Think Guatemalan...

Moron alert.Agriculture is 1.4% of the US economy. There's nowhere near enough jobs in 'the farms' to support the number of people that would need jobs to feed themselves. We live in a country where we throw away more than half the food we produce, and food production is 1.4% sliver of the...

I have had a grand total of 11k in student loans. That's with 3 bachelor's degrees (stats/cs/psych) and a master's degree (well, at the end of this semester.) Jesus, the shit people make up.

Back a bunch of years ago when I was really really broke, I used to have dreams about going to eat a big bowl of cereal all the time and then wake up and realize I didn't have cereal.

Wanted to go to Moe's for Burrito Monday but I was too depressed. FEELS BAD.

The sin says go a-wave.

Yeah if you've never noticed, women are way more critical of other women's bodies than men are. Men will generally fuck anything that isn't grotesquely fat. Only fat dykes like other fat dykes. GIS fat chick gif:

I finally got my k/d over 1 after starting at a the huge deficit I had during the initial release. Feels fucking good. This game is really underrated but it does need some content. PS: Indar sucks unless someone wants to gun for my Harasser. I'm one of those people that actually likes...

Everything below COPYRIGHT MIST INC. No stealing it, Hollywood: I had this dream where I had a spaceship and I was searching through all these systems for the lost battlefleet of Jesus Christ. I found a battlecruiser from the derelict fleet, and, after analyzing the navigational computer...

I'm not interested in being seen as sexually attractive by men. In fact, quite the opposite. Stupid derail, post some gifs:

How is processing a return on an item with a 3 year warranty a scam? The warranty is part of what you're paying for when they sell you the item. Free from all defects for 3 years. LOTS of people push extreme overclocks on their cards and then return them when they burn them out. EVGA...

No, I like her waist to hip ratio. I don't hate fake tits though, usually girls that get fake tits had some pretty gross ones before. I would certainly get fake tits if I had the money and was interested in being seen as sexually attractive by men.

So the real answer is that thing is a waste of PCIe bandwidth and you're better off not even having it in your computer than using it as a PhysX card.

It's fine but I'm really only watching this to see Mickey make epic fuckups.

Because when you're rich its very easy to convince yourself that everyone beneath you is worthless. This is how western society got stuck with feudalism for 1000 years. It's like people don't realize that history has been down this road before. Slaves/serfs/wage slaves aren't good...

That's also been proposed, but seems too much like a direct subsidy for many.

A lot of food.