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U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes
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#52You'll never guess what bill funded this site... ... the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 of course! It's in Sec 7103: Grants for Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood
What a change, now the government penalizes marriage through the ACA. I wonder why the shift from promoting to penalizing marriage.
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#53You'll never guess what bill funded this site... ... the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 of course! It's in Sec 7103: Grants for Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood
What a change, now the government penalizes marriage through the ACA. I wonder why the shift from promoting to penalizing marriage.
https://thefinancebuff.com/marriage-penalty-under-obamacare-...
For anyone curious.
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#55Distributed Dadnial of Service is happening I think.
Slashdotted!
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#56I don't get this one:
Did you hear about the two satellites that got married?
The wedding wasn't much, but the reception was incredible.
Should the punchline be "out of this world"?
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#57I don't get this one: Did you hear about the two satellites that got married? The wedding wasn't much, but the reception was incredible. Should the punchline be "out of this world"?
Signal reception
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#58Our tax dollars hard at work on the important issues.
Yes, it is: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/12/12/u-s-child...
It may seem silly on the surface, but solving issues at the root is often way more effective than treating the symptoms. In plain words: we're better off solving crime by having a kid grow up in a healthy household, rather than throwing that kid in prison after they commit a crime, who may in turn have a kid who grows up in an unhealthy household without a father.
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#59Our tax dollars hard at work on the important issues.
Joke's on you: those are not my tax dollars. Foreigners get those premium dad jokes free of charge. (Though I wonder whether the Chinese can claim dumping with the WTO? That's what the Americans do with Chinese goods that are delivered cheaper than they would like to compete with.)
Realistically we borrowed me the money from you.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
On those grounds, you can probably argue that any spending anywhere reduces the deficit in the long run. EDIT: to clarify, an argument that providing dad-jokes leads to less single motherhood (which then leads to less spending) is so tenuous, that if you accept it, you can accept almost any kind of mental gymnastics. I agree that reducing single motherhood would probably lead to less spending. It's the connection to…
Can you explain how your statement follows from the parent? To me it reads like a slippery slope type statement.
Almost any kind of spending that anyone, including the government, does is coupled with some arguments about the benefits it brings.
For most claimed benefits, it doesn't require a lot of mental gymnastics to find some arguments why they would reduce some spending in the long run.
If you give me an example as a challenge, I can (most probably) spin you the argument of how it reduces spending.