Bevendre

Looking at tax brackets over the last 100 years, the rich don’t pay enough.  People who tend to complain that taxes are too high now are those that ended up growing up when the higher income citizens were in tax brackets that were taxed upwards of 70%.  Those rates were slashed by the Reagan era cuts spurred by the Reagonomic economic model that is often and rightly blamed for a lot of the current wealth distribution issues.

Right now the absolute highest tax rate is 39.6%, and that only affects individuals making more than $400,000 each year.  Historically that’s really low, and affecting a lot of people.  Why is it so ridiculous to ask the mega-millionaires or billionaires to pay a higher tax rate when their income makes it absurdly unlikely that said higher taxes would have a negative affect on their lifestyle?

Bernie’s economic (and other) policies have been mirrored or inspired by similar models that have worked very well in a number of foreign countries, as well as his own experience in Congress where he’s been in place since 1991, with 16 years in the House and 8 years in the senate, and are a hell of a lot more sane than the plans of some other candidates.  Take a look at Trump’s model that would have eliminated the estate tax, lowered the highest tax rate to 25% and cost the country trillions within a few years.

No problem.  People have their own reasons for doing things, be it changing locations in life, or suicide bombing.  An individuals reasons for joining a terrorist cell can range from fulfilling a particular misinterpreted line of what they follow as holy writing to looking to destabilize a system or country that they believe to be evil, to having no other place to go in their view.

None of the individual’s reasons can really be judged for the whole, and there are undoubtedly some people who do it because they believe that something is promised for them in the afterlife.  The more important question is what the terrorist group itself is after, and those reasons are generally easier to link back to destabilizing a power through one method or another in an attempt to make things follow their views or desires more closely.  It’s those reasons that are fairly easy to tie to global warming, not directly perhaps but definitely within reason.

He did say that terrorism is linked to global warming, though I can understand the reasoning behind it as dwindling resources, and various powers striving for control over limited resources linked to global warming, does have a tendency to cause an increase in strife and attempts to destabilize structures that are viewed by extremists as harmful to most.

As for the vaccine-autism issue, I’ve not heard much but everything that I have seen shows that Sanders is in support of vaccinations for the purpose of public health, that he is supportive of expanding the availability of health care, and that he has voted in favor of supporting autism study and care.  The only connection that I can find regarding Bernie Sanders and the “vaccine causes autism” issue was from him correcting Donald Trump when the living troll doll said that it was true and was corrected by Ben Carson and Rand Paul

Potentially, yes.  Hitler was an anti-semitic monster who brought about a lot of suffering and strife, but he was also a very good leader who did a lot for Germany during a very difficult time.  I think that under different circumstances prior to 1939 Hitler could have overcome his anti-semitism, or at least not been such a massive dick to Jews, Gypsys, homosexuals etc.  He was horribly misguided and hateful to many groups, but he was not purely evil and because of that it is possible that he could have been rehabilitated at one point or another.  Probably not redeemed or forgiven but certainly rehabilitated.

I think that it’s rather ass backwards, frankly.  The focuses that are set for education spending are understandable but excessive with all focus put upon the sciences for subjects to be invested in and then sports being where most of the spending often goes.  The cutting of funding to most art and humanity programs to some extent doesn’t help either.

Testing has become such a priority to maintain funding that students  are shovel fed information solely for the sake of regurgitating it on a standardized test that tells nothing about how much they’ve actually learned and can apply.  All that it does is cause stress to the students, and the teachers, because the pressure is placed upon them to keep an establishment afloat that they are made to hate.

That teachers are made to divert from what they may consider the best way to teach students, to fulfill their dreams and passions, in order to produce the best results at the expense of what’s best for their charges angers me.

I think that the amount of homework that has become average and expected is obscene, especially since the best school systems in the word tend to not use homework much if at all and there is no evidence that it is beneficial to anything.  

I think that the reduction of recess and increase in security is also really harmful to the student experience, though those stem from other problems that also need to be addressed.  Desperately.

I blame Bush for the most part, and I’m really glad that the worst of it has been addressed in part under Obama, not as much as I’d like but it’s still a start.

Which reminds me, I also have a novel and a half that I need to go back to.