More men for the meat grinder when his misguided leadership entices China to war. It is going to be ugly and it is entirely preventable. Our vices have blinded us, dulled our intellects and made Trump possible.

Sounds like a repeat of the “Christian Exodus Movement,” a group who planned to move to South Carolina and declare independence, inspired by the Freestate Project whose Libertarian members sought similar aims in New Hampshire.

There’s only one scenario where any of this makes sense and that’s if the administration has really good evidence that China is going to war against the United States and the United States wants to pre-secure important naval corridors before the war begins. That’s the only way any of this makes sense. Tariffs, Greenland, Panama, distancing ourselves from Ukraine, etc. Is all this for a build-up to war or is something else afoot?

I don’t think the story will end well in Kentucky of Mississippi but Kansas had some existing problems that often get tied-in with Kansas’ tax reduction.

1. The people writing the checks for government expenditures were not following the budget submitted by the legislature. There was literally someone cutting checks based on what he felt was good policy. For years and years. He died. We only figured out the problem after he died and it turned out he was giving schools and school transportation a lot more money than he was supposed to. The Legislature would have made different spending decisions had they correct information abut the state of the budget. Massive oversight on the part of several administrations.

2. Kansas has poorer farmland than Iowa & Nebraska. Kansas has less oil than Oklahoma. And Kansas doesn’t have tourism like Colorado. Relative to our neighbors, we will continue to get poorer and poorer. The economic engine of Kansas (Kansas City) is split between two states and the “border war” frequently results in business playing both sides off each other until they get a deal so cheap that neither side should make the offer.

3. Kansas City is the economic engine of Kansas. The tax cuts reduced government spending (mostly school spending) in rural parts of the state. The tax savings was pocketed in a city where a lot of the money walked across the border. The overall state couldn’t make-up for what was being lost through that siphon but this may be a problem dissimilar to other states.

All that said, I do think good public policy is to have a wide but shallow system of taxation. Meaning that a state uses every type of tax (income, sales, property, estate, capital gains, etc.) but also tries to keep each tax relatively low so that the tax itself does not become the source of economic disruption. I feel like states that take one tax to zero but make it up with another tax are making things worse.

I think it is a map showing states that take more in federal money than they pay in federal taxes vs states that take more money than they pay back in taxes.

I remember the early days of Reddit when it really felt like a community project. Back then, they had the goodwill necessary that Redditors would have personally financed a chunk of the costs of running particular Subreddits. Not anymore. That goodwill is gone.

Honestly, I think there’s a market for stuff that’s cheap enough that you feel comfortable throwing it out after using a couple of times. Seasonal items especially. Not good for the environment or overall public policy but the market exists nonetheless.

Family Dollar has a focus on low income households in the urban core. They haven’t been able to make a profit from that demographic since before they were bought. Dollar Tree plans to pivot to suburban customers who are not as price sensitive.

Q. "Who is my neighbor?

A. https://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=49&ch=10&l=29-#x

This smells like 1929.

For more information, lookup the impact of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest on mental health services in the United States.

I think part of the problem is the MMR in the United States is associated with a medical abortion. Certain religious groups won’t take the MMR in account of that. There’s an ethical alternative but it is not commercially available in the US. It would be a good idea to make the alternative strain available here because it would help protect a segment of the population that’s otherwise exposed.

We got married while still in college. Our first was born exactly nine months from the date we married. I kinda expected it to take 18 months of two years but we certainly didn’t mind that things went faster than expected.

So I have 11 children and am the sole income for my family. Most of my working life I’ve made median or below median income. I’m open to questions for anyone who wants to know how we made this work.

It should also be a big clue: If insurance companies don’t want to take your money, you are doing something dumb. Don’t build stick houses in wildfire zones.

(not so) fun fact: The average black male American never sees a penny from social security because the program is biased toward those who live long enough to reap the benefits of the program. So, despite paying in an entire working life, dying too young rewards you with a big fat nothing.

I am Sparticus.

If we impeach, it needs to be Trump and Vance together.

I’m surprised he isn’t exclusively Linux.

Be like China. Make up your own statistics.