How do we NOT pay for it? Other than completely reforming our military objectives and acquisitions, simplifying and consolidating and removing the superfluous PROFIT from our health care system will be the single largest money-saving project that Congress could take on.

Wilson took pleasure in subverting the ideal of a youthful, flat-stomached gamer girl.

If you do not say hi, how are you doing

The beneficiary of nepotism doesn’t believe that Americans “in their hearts” want to tax the beneficiaries of nepotism to enhance our social safety net.

you might be concerned that you’re staring down the squirt-gun barrel of a slow-paced, tedious slog

I see. That is a lot of sad and concerning details. The article read to me like this was a deal that had just been announced, and that while people had every reason to be concerned, that we didn’t really know what the ongoing effects would be.

There are people who will argue very sternly with you that the $4B in lost wages is accurate. It’s an average for all 25K employees of $160K/year.

If we treat them nicer even in custody than they were running from, then we’re still providing incentive. Erego, unless we treat them worse than the conditions that they feared at home, they will still want to come here.

I just hope that my faith in Howie isn’t misplaced, and that if this does negatively affect the smaller comics, he will stand up for them.

How dare they make a very long-running game series featuring as a central plot point hereditary/genetic memory and then force the main character to procreate!

They were projecting 700 employees by the end of the first year, and 3000 by the end of the second year.

There is pretty much no way they were going to put 25,000 jobs there with an -average- pay of $160K.

There was a 180 acre nature preserve just across the street from the apartments I lived in, and we would constantly haunt it. I spent a lot of time in that forest as a teenager.

And that is such a huge part of it. When you see the sprawling waste of time and life in the corporate system... It’s hard to imagine that there isn’t some way to more equitably divide the labor that needs to be done, so that everyone can work, but everyone can work LESS and still earn enough to live a decent life.

It may surprise you to know that there is more than 1 writer on this site, and that they do not congregate in a hive-mind in order to present a singular and unwavering perspective on things.

“This billboard cost about $4,000. But you cost NY 25,000 jobs and $4,000,000,000 in annual lost wages. Ouch.”

Do you know why Venezuela is falling apart? A drop in oil prices, for one thing. For another, corruption, failed democracy, and bad leadership.

The Republican leaning Senate has a stranglehold on meaningful progress in our society. It’s disgusting.

only under the rules of engagement that they say to you

Where do these people get the idea that Amazon was going to create $27 BILLION in new tax revenue for New York?