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Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by skinnymuch »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #201
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #93

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Many NJ residents work(ed) in NY. Of which, many are high earners who could be contributing significant amounts to the state tax rolls but NY claims income tax from anyone who commutes there. To make up the difference towns have to jack up property taxes. Things should hopefully change with remote work not happening in NY anymore.

NJ's debt per taxpayer is multiple standard deviations above the norm. On the order of $60k per taxpayer versus $10k to $20k in other states. That is just at the state level, who knows what is going at the city level, and there are a ton of tiny fiefdoms with highly paid personnel. https://www.truthinaccounting.org/library/doclib/FSOS-Bookle... I do not see anyway out of repaying these debts from previous decades wit…

If NJ is in such deep waters. Which it seems like it is. What is up with the stats and data of which states give more to the fed than what they get back and Vice versa. Why is NJ always giving more? If they have so much debt?

Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by skinnymuch »

PKop wrote: post #368
p_j_w wrote: post #318

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>I don't need statistics to understand covering the faces of young children for extended periods is going to harm their social development. You're literally saying you don't require evidence for your views and trying to frame this as a virtue?

Yes. 100%. Of course it is a virtue to have the right instincts and judgement, and not need studies to function in life and make all decisions, when choices have to be made one way or the other, studies or not. What possible study could give you definitive information to decide here? Social "sciences" are rife with replication errors, the whole industry is suspicious. But so what? This is such a modern hyper rational…

The problem with your self righteousness is that it is not obvious at all that masks are damaging to children. That thinking seems completely silly to me. Such an irreverent unimportant thing as a mask mattering.

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Post by skinnymuch »

gavinhoward wrote: post #347
generalk wrote: post #99

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Sure, a cloth mask won't STOP Covid. But the science indicates that community mask wearing does decrease transmission rates as mask wearing rates go up.[1] Similarly, the current vaccine does not prevent infection, but it significantly reduces symptoms and helps reduce the amount of people who'd otherwise be hospitalized with COVID-19.[2] Death rates are the most serious metric to look at (and it's abysmal), but cert…

> The reasonable asks: a facemask indoors in public, and a vaccine. Those are not reasonable. You may think they are, but there are obviously people who disagree. Also, the vaccine and masks may have been a reasonable ask , but it is not a reasonable mandate! Once mandates started kicking in, and politicians started saying "The voluntary phase is over" while not following their own rules, then they became unreasonabl…

Which ones? We used masks during the Spanish Flu. That’s the other biggest pandemic. We don’t really have any others that compare.

Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by skinnymuch »

PKop wrote: post #296
atkailash wrote: post #106

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Why do people forget that it’s not just that children are mostly safe. Sure that may be true…but they carry that home to family who absolutely are at risk. That is why it’s a useful mitigation. Why do people forget that an infectious disease doesn’t stick to just one person? Do they not get what infectious means?

Then you are sacrificing the well being of children, and their social development, for some perceived (likely minor) benefit to decreasing spread to older family members. But it worse, because Covid is becoming endemic. It's a coronavirus. It is never going away. We are going to have Covid infections forever. So what has been gained? It would be much more beneficial to encourage weight loss and fitness regime for ove…

What social development is at risk from masks on kids? And their well being? Negatively affected by masks?

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Post by skinnymuch »

busymom0 wrote: post #35
davidw wrote: post #27

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I'm beginning to come around to this point of view: https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/peacefield/617c7b245793d... - we are not a serious nation. There's a global pandemic caused by an airborne pathogen, and people throw an absolute hissy fit over a minor inconvenience like masks. My kids wear them all day long in school, and while they don't love them, they are not constantly whining about them like some adults. My…

Kids have the most psychological development from looking at people's faces, emotions and smiles. Saying that's a "minor inconvenience" is silly. Especially since there's negligible risks for them. And mandating something which neither prevents catching, nor transmitting the virus is definitely not a "minor inconvenience". EDIT: In my last sentence, I wasn't referring to masks. I was referring to vaccine mandates whi…

Darn so blind or other kids with bad vision don’t get most psychological development? Are we doing anything about this? It has to be a major crisis for all those people to grow up with stunted psychological development.

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Post by rsj_hn »

skinnymuch wrote: post #401
lotsofpulp wrote: post #201

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NJ's debt per taxpayer is multiple standard deviations above the norm. On the order of $60k per taxpayer versus $10k to $20k in other states. That is just at the state level, who knows what is going at the city level, and there are a ton of tiny fiefdoms with highly paid personnel. https://www.truthinaccounting.org/library/doclib/FSOS-Bookle... I do not see anyway out of repaying these debts from previous decades wit…

If NJ is in such deep waters. Which it seems like it is. What is up with the stats and data of which states give more to the fed than what they get back and Vice versa. Why is NJ always giving more? If they have so much debt?

> Why is NJ always giving more? If they have so much debt?

Because we have progressive taxation and a lot of rich people live in New Jersey, so they pay more in taxes. A state doesn't need to be in financial trouble because it is poor, it is in financial trouble if it makes more promises than it can afford to pay given its tax base. The constant raiding of employee pension funds and various financial ponzi schemes is why NJ is in trouble.

    Median household income in 2019
    NJ[1] = 85K
    US[2] = 69K
[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/NJ/SBO001212

[2] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...

Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by skinnymuch »

twofornone wrote: post #392
omegaworks wrote: post #374

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Again, you can't seem to point me at anyone telling white schoolboys they are oppressors. Public schooling, one of the few institutions that actually values and reaches Appalachian folks[1], has been under attack by exactly the forces behind the latest "critical race theory" boogeyman. If you actually gave a damn about folks in poverty you wouldn't be shilling for the latest fad attack on schools, the list of which y…

What do you want, a source that literally uses the term "oppression"? Does CRT not posit that all inequities in our society are a result of white supremacist oppression? Is the point of privilege not to imply that those who have it must forgo equal treatment in order to correct for historical oppression? And if white boys fail to do enough to combat this white supremacist, oppressive system, is the implication not th…

> Does CRT not posit that all inequities in our society are a result of white supremacist oppression?

No…

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Post by COGlory »

dlp211 wrote: post #39
COGlory wrote: post #16

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxFhMVIPodk Rossman is biased, but the facts do speak for themselves here. I couldn't believe this video

That's an hour long video, could you provide a TL;DW?

Basically, the state borrowed money against unrealistic stock market returns on pension fund investments.

Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by lotsofpulp »

adolph wrote: post #346
lotsofpulp wrote: post #12

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People where I live get a ballot and a book in the mail weeks before the election with details for all the candidates and questions, and all you have to do is drop it in the outgoing mail. Takes no more than 30min of your time, maybe 1 hour if you are a slow reader. And yet, less than 20% voter participation. It is ironic that turnout for national elections, where their vote is moot is much higher. But for school boa…

> People where I live get a ballot and a book in the mail weeks before the election with details for all the candidates and questions, and all you have to do is drop it in the outgoing mail. Are the votes not secret or are the votes not verified as authentic?

Votes are secret and verified to ensure there is only 1 vote per person.

https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/faq_vote_by_mail.aspx

Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by portpecos »

sjg007 wrote: post #365
betwixthewires wrote: post #364

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I'd like a source on that final sentence if you have it. I get the arguments for and against them, but I generally favor leaving those decisions up to the people involved.

Why don’t you Google it? Easy to find.

>It is a common misapprehension that hollow-point ammunition is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions, as the prohibition significantly predates those conventions.

There ya go. Easy to find.

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