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What’s behind inequality?

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I merely said reasonable people can disagree on what the evidence means on some issue..
of course but who cares about some trivial issues when Sanders/AOC and other libcommies may take over. Chairs on the Titanic????
 
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It doesn't make either communism nor nazism sensible. And it doesn't mean I don't have a position either.

you have no positions as far as I can see. Can you decide between Sanders and Trump or do you need to study it for many years?
 
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And it doesn't mean I don't have a position either.

So why not tell us your positions on significant issues?? Afraid to even try?
 
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you have no positions as far as I can see. Can you decide between Sanders and Trump or do you need to study it for many years?

That is the ultimate strawman argument.

Political position on matters of economics is often devoid of economic principles, the language of economics become sound bytes for bumper sticker “OMG, Venezuela” or “OMG, debt and inflation” thinking.

You know it, and I know it... which makes it very asinine of you trying to bait others into that decision as if either Trump or Sanders give a **** about the fundamentals of economics.
 
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as if either Trump or Sanders give a **** about the fundamentals of economics.

Sanders is a student and devotee of socialism. IF you doubt it why so afraid to tell us why? what does your fear teach you? PLease read what you write before you post. Thanks
 
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you have no positions as far as I can see. Can you decide between Sanders and Trump or do you need to study it for many years?

It is quite ironic to say that I have no position on anything when you quote me saying I find neither Communism nor Nazism sensible. I also previously made a few of my positions known upon your request -- in this same thread, if I am not mistaken.

As for a choice between Trump and Sanders, my current impression is that I would rather have Trump than Sanders. The reason is that he sounds like the kind of person who doesn't question too much the victim narrative on the left, nor the need for the government to take the lead to solve problems. Trump might be equally prone to nonsense, but it's at least a kind of nonsense that forces us to look at things differently. He's the lesser of two evils between the two. If you're curious, I also think he's better than Clinton, though not preferable to Obama. My respect for Obama is due to several extensive interviews he gave, as well as several reactions from liberal public figures who repeatedly accused him of not being sufficiently radical: he actually listened when people disagreed with him. I also recently changed my mind about the former conservative prime minister Steven Harper when I read his book and watched an interview he gave to Ben Shapiro about it. He's also that kind of person who you can tell pays attention when others speak, even when he profoundly disagrees with them.

Everyone knows that you'll say you hated Obama and that he was some kind of communist. Finding disagreements with politicians is easy because it is unavoidable. However, you can still enjoy how someone behaved during their time in office without agreeing with everything they do.
 
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If you're curious, I also think he's[Trump] better than Clinton, though not preferable to Obama. .

So you prefer Trump to Sanders and Clinton but prefer Obama overall three, an open single payers communist who voted to the left of Bernie Sanders!!!
Congratulations on being so confused, inconsistent, and brain dead!!!
 
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So you prefer Trump to Sanders and Clinton but prefer Obama overall three, an open single payers communist who voted to the left of Bernie Sanders!!!
Congratulations on being so confused, inconsistent, and brain dead!!!

I am neither brain dead nor confused, though your inability to make sense of what I and others wrote and your all-too-common reaction of insulting the intelligence of anyone who disagrees with you is a telling sign of your own limitations. I have yet to find a single instance where you showed any sign of having understood what people were saying. You have not demonstrated once the capacity to make abstraction of your own political preferences and assumptions to make sense of what others are saying. Disagreement with you must be a matter of confusion, ignorance or stupidity.

A hint to resolve the dilemma of the claims I made earlier. Politicians are package deals; they're points in a high-dimensional space, so you can't arbitrarily pick one dimension and claim inconsistency on the basis of that. The actual concept you're looking for is nontransitive preferences and your demonstration has to rest on my assumptions and arguments, not those you pick. It will be hard for you since you probably have no clue what is transitivity, how to demonstrate its opposite and can't seem to use what others are saying in a way they would approve.

Moreover, even if you manage to swing something like this, you did press me to make calls without further inquiry. I could be making mistakes that I can't spot without looking into further details. There's a trade-off between how much effort you put into making a choice and how accurate is your judgment when you make that choice. If you pick up some of your favorite details to show I might have made less than perfect evaluations of politicians after complaining I couldn't make a choice, you're trying to have it both ways. Mistakes are to be expected more frequently when fewer resources are devoted to making a call. That's life, get over it.
 
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I am neither brain dead nor confused, though your inability to make sense of what I and others wrote and your all-too-common reaction of insulting the intelligence of anyone who disagrees with you

Why not start out with a lie? Show me where I insulted intelligence of a conservative? If you claim I insulted intelligence of liberals you are probably correct. Would you expect me to praise the intelligence of liberals after they have just killed 120 million?
 
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Disagreement with you must be a matter of confusion, ignorance or stupidity.

Why are you so afraid to show us your best example of where liberals are not stupid ignorant or confused? What do you learn from your fear?
 
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A hint to resolve the dilemma of the claims I made earlier..

dear, you clean forgot to tell us what claims you are talking about???????
 
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I could be making mistakes that I can't spot without looking into further details.

You should know that Obama is a libcommie who voted to left of Sanders and both are the greatest libcommie since FDR and Alger Hiss.
 
From the EPI here: What’s behind inequality and wage suppression in the labor market?

Excerpt:

WHICH we've known for a long, long time - since Reckless Ronnie tore-down upper-income taxation - that Income Disparity would skyrocket. As it has done these past 30-years with less than Amazing Grace ...

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When did the last upswing of the red-line happen Look closely at that red-line above and note that the upswing took place in the 1980 timeframe. And who was elected PotUS in 1980?

One guess, and only one guess ...

Lenin and his ruthless mob rode the envy of the poor to devastating destruction of human life and liberty in Russia 100 years ago. The health and success of the American economy for the last 200 years has been its protections of liberty and the competitive free market. Leftist communists do not like free markets or competitive forces in the workplace. The slow, the lazy, the less skilled, the less intelligent and so forth want some form of communist government forces guaranteeing them good wages in spite of poor work performance.
 
The slow, the lazy, the less skilled, the less intelligent and so forth want some form of communist government forces guaranteeing them good wages in spite of poor work performance.

OK I do not support any of the economic platforms we have today, and having said that, and looking at this, you must realize how ignorant that statement is. That describes almost any section of a population regardless of political or economic leanings. Lazy, unskilled, uneducated, people wanting a good wage in spite of poor work performance could easily describe half the American workforce.
 
OK I do not support any of the economic platforms we have today,

So you're not a capitalist or communist?? You are confused and ignorant? Why not ask questions and try to learn so one day you can understand why capitalism is superior?
 
. Lazy, unskilled, uneducated, people wanting a good wage in spite of poor work performance could easily describe half the American workforce.

so?? the lower people on the economic ladder will always try to supplement their income with welfare in one form or another. We need to encourage work not welfare ie work; not ripping other people off. Do you understand?.
 
so?? the lower people on the economic ladder will always try to supplement their income with welfare in one form or another. We need to encourage work not welfare ie work; not ripping other people off. Do you understand?.

You do realize the context in which I wrote that correct?
 
You do realize the context in which I wrote that correct?

Obviously liberty is responsibility for inequality!
All men are created equal but not destined, thanks to the forces of evolution, to end up equal.
 
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