Suppose that every day, ten men go out for a beer, and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes. It would go something like this. Read more.....
When the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation was asked to score the impact of the proposed Trump tax plan in late 2017, here was their conclusion. Read more.....
You probably have never seen this chart depicting US energy production and consumption by fuel source, but if you study it for just a few minutes, you will quickly understand that in the absence of a massive increase in the number of nuclear power plants in this country, achieving an economy that is no longer dependent on fossil fuels is not something that will ever become a reality in your lifetime. Read more.....
Many people mistakenly believe that we get our (natural) rights from the Constitution when, in fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
The linked article explains in detail what the author refers to as 'The Five universal rules of human stupidity". Here is a short summary of those five laws:
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Always and inevitably everyone underestimates.....
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The probability that a certain person is stupid.....
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A stupid person is a person who causes losses.....
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Non-stupid people always underestimate.....
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A stupid person is the most dangerous.....
I was out driving and made a wrong turn and wound up in Bernieville. A very strange place indeed. Here are some of the things I discovered while spending the day there: