Political science, economics, data science, and environmentalism
This fiscal year, the United States Federal budget is expected to have a deficit of $1.8 trillion. Deficit: -$1,800,000,000,000 Taxing capital gains as regular income would raise an additional $1.4 trillion, bringing the budget deficit down to $400 billion. Deficit: -$400,000,000,000 This could then be closed by ending the home mortgage interest deduction, which increases …
Continue reading “Easy ways to close the federal budget deficit”
Military aid to Ukraine has passed the House, and now just has to be approved by the Senate and signed into law by Biden today, and the Russians are already scaling down and withdrawing their troops because they know what is coming. Because of US aid: Fewer civilians are being killed. Fewer civilians are being …
Continue reading “Military aid to Ukraine is already saving lives”
A few days in my life of roughly three decades have been pivotal moments in world history, and today is one of those days. 11 September 2001 was obviously the big one in terms of global politics, which started the War on Terror. August 2008 saw the Russian-Georgian War, the first foreign invasion by Russia …
The US vetoed the resolution to grant Palestine UN membership yesterday, and in response, the Israeli occupation minister said: “The proposal to recognize a Palestinian state, more than 6 months after the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and after the sexual crimes and other atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists was a reward for …
Let me be clear: I like Bernie Sanders in general. I voted for him over Hillary Clinton, and if I could have ranked my ballot, I would have put him as my second choice in 2020 after Elizabeth Warren. I agree with the results of his decision to support Ukraine and push for a two-state …
Continue reading “Consider other perspectives, but don’t forget history”
When people claim inflation is caused solely by greed, as if that’s something new… They need to go back to the Solow model. First of all, it implies that companies were not profit maximizing before 2020 and have bursts of generosity. So the leftist take is that companies are sometimes charitable and not greedy in …
https://apnews.com/article/congress-border-security-ukraine-a39e188fa2c6a563203d2c69eaabdc6d “In a dramatic turnaround, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell recommended to GOP senators in a closed-door meeting that they vote against the first procedural vote Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the meeting who were not authorized to talk publicly about it and spoke anonymously.” Back in February, there was a chance the …
I have written multiple times about how there were three primary reasons for the current war in Gaza. Distract the US government so we do not send aid to Izrael because Izrael supports Ruzzia’s invasion of Ukraine. Keep Netanyahu in office. Keeping Netanyahu in office delays the recognition of Palestine by the United States, which …
Continue reading “More details on the solution to the crisis in the Levant”
Imagine what the United States would do if Ukraine went as far as arresting Russian embassy workers in Ukrainian territory after the 2014 war when the embassy was still open. The Russian embassy in Kyiv was open until the day before Russia expanded its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This was after about six months …
Go spend 30 minutes reading abstracts in peer reviewed literature regarding pollution from packaging. If you are trying to reduce carbon emissions from packaging, and you are trying to do it through banning one form of packaging or another, it is a losing battle. The literature is a mess. No study properly accounts for all …