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dantheman
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Comment #48598185
One bad apple does spoil the bunch. Apples release a gas when rotting which accelerates the rotting of nearby ones. And in politics corruption spreads.
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Comment #46151985
Getting a diagnosis to get more time to complete tests. https://accommodations.collegeboard.org/how-accommodations-w...
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Comment #45819888
Rent control increase the rent for everyone, lowers the amount of housing stock, and reduces its quality.
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Comment #44298942
The majority of medical care and expenses are not emergency.
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Comment #44298935
Medicine is one of the most regulated and least capitalist markets.
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Comment #44082436
Hint it has - the standard of living is far higher now; medical care is far better; and the number of people subsidized by those working has greatly increased (this may not be cons…
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Comment #43948550
Throughout history there are very few monopolies and they don't normally last that long; that is unless they get are granted special privileges by the government.
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Comment #43511803
Why? to increase productivity and improve the human condition. If AI can do research then technological and scientific progress will increase dramatically.
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Comment #43216628
I wish people would actually read the Budapest Memorandum and see what it actually promises. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publicati…
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Comment #42271014
You might like: Discrimination and Disparities (2019) by Thomas Sowell
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Comment #41597510
Perhaps you're not aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
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Comment #41574563
What benefits?
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Comment #41514798
Yep for instance: 1932–1933 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
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Comment #41499240
The EU is more of a problem than any sort of solution.
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Comment #41499232
It's not a funding problem, it's a spending problem. Taxes are insanely high around the world.
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Comment #41442375
The answer is the court rules that the FTC overstepped it's power. It's now back to congress to grant that power if that's truly what they wanted, or hell they could have written a…
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Comment #41188050
If the public thinks it's a federal issue then just pass an amendment granting the federal government the authority to handle it.
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Comment #41038593
What are you talking about - that is deregulation. This was a government granted monopoly - you don't get more regulated than that.
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Comment #40992210
Only 18% of degrees are in STEM https://nces.ed.gov/programs/raceindicators/indicator_reg.as...
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Comment #40859741
Completely agree :)
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Comment #40858634
You mean like Obama assassinating a US citizen?
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Comment #40858615
It's fundamentally immoral and something the US should repeal.
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Comment #40826753
You do realize that real problem is the prison guard union and public prisons right? Private prisons represent 8% of all prisoners...