Which ones? All of them or just the shooters? Because I'm sensing a broad brush...
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DPD: Snipers Shoot 10 Officers, 3 Dead
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supply side economics? what the hell? I already disabused you of that b.s. with stats piezoe? why are you bringing that crap up again. Far more people now pay zero income tax. . We have 10s of millions more poor people because we have brought in 80 million more immigrants and anchor babies. That is not on supply side economics.
Any of those who support harming the police in word or deed are part of the problem.
The guy who shot 20 kids had planned it, too.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, can you elaborate a bit. I assume the attacks on police in the 1970s you mentioned must be referring to unrest related to the anti Vietnam war movement. I suppose this would be yet another example of defiance breed from the Government turning a deaf ear to the people.
I want to say right off that my view that supply-side economics is a principal contributor to income inequality may be wrong. I have written widely on this. My opinion has been reinforced by Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century and what in my view are rather compelling facts. But again, I may be wrong. I know that many others believe that offshoring and immigration played an important role, whereas I think these latter factors must be only secondary. When you look at the functional shape of income inequality over time it follows, in both timing and functional form, what would be expected if say the distribution was being driven by compound interest, and I think that one observation is in very good agreement with both Piketty's and my thesis.
Briefly, this thesis is that when during Reagan's administration the rate in the lowest bracket was increased by two percent, I believe, if memory serves, and the upper brackets were all drastically lowered and compressed to the point that our tax structure approached a flat tax -- before subsequent revisions -- there was an accumulation of excess, if you will, wealth at the top end, heavily skewed toward the very top, but hardly noticeable at the time. After it was learned that the tax cuts were not paying for themselves, as the supply siders had predicted, this flattening of progressivity was gradually and partially undone over several succeeding presidencies. We have maintained much of this reduced progressivity -- though not nearly so reduced as during that brief period of the 1980s-- and, in particular, the tax rate remains drastically lowered in the topmost bracket. This has gone on now for nearly two generations.
Over the same period, again as a residual of suppy-side thinking, unearned income has been taxed at lower rates than earned. When compounded over many years, the expected result of these two supply-side tax initiatives, lowered bracket rates and lower taxation of unearned income, is in quite good agreement with what we actually see in the income distribution graph over time. There is as exacerbating affect too. And that is the rapid increase in executive compensation relative to the broad economy that occurred in the past three decades. Piketty discusses this at length.
I* and a few economists, I guess you could say "maverick economists," believe that the compounded effect of these phenomena I mention are far more important as causative agents in forming our current income distribution, than more recent globalization or immigration, which we view as contributing, but not primary factors.
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*I don't want to imply that I am an economist. I'm not.
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This is what happens when people lose the capacity to call things by their proper names. They resort to this kind of tortured pseudo-intellectual moral equivalency.
This shooter was evil. He is not the product of tax cuts, the Patriot Act or anything else, except for the blind hatred that is encouraged by black racists like Obama and his BLM crowd of thugs.
When the crazy guy in charleston shot up a black church, there was a frenzied hunt for all symbols of Southern culture. If there is any moral symmetry, BLM will suffer the same fate.
I'm not holding my breath, not while the President is tacitly encouraging violence against the police.
That's blind hatred right there, Ann.
You are slightly confused. There is a white cop overreach on blacks and as a result many blacks needlessly had to die before this retaliation happened. Call it hate crime or whatever you want. Fact remains that the level of discrimination is not bearable for some at the fringes of society anymore. You can blame whoever you want and think whatever but it does not make the problem go away.
The point I'm making is that the "movement" loses credibility when acting as if what happened to Michael Brown is the same as what happened to Eric Gardner. What happened to dumb thug Freddie Gray trying to scam himself a jackpot by slamming himself around in the back of the van is not the same as what appears to have happened in Minnesota a couple days ago in which a seemingly innocent man was killed by a cop who acted with gross negligence. I doubt the Hillary defense will work for him, but I digress.
I'm just saying that there are legitimate complaints, very legitimate grievances that the black community has when it comes to their interactions with police. They do themselves no favors by pretending police brutality where there is none. The black community does themselves no favors fabricating racism where none exists. There is police brutality and there is racism. It's just not as wide spread and the "movement" would lead us to believe. You, they, want my full support on these issues? Stop defending the rights of thugs of which I couldn't care less about, and stick with the facts rather than pushing an ideology from the 50's and 60's which has come and gone.
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Oh yeah, Ricter. Lets see you march in the next BLM protest.