Projecting federal tax revenues =/= your job at Beadz-N-More

All budgets are estimates. What are you talking about?

Eh, the difference here, I think, is that we’re approaching the problem with a revenue target in mind, whereas for armed robbery (or gun possession, as Jacob Danger Germain notes below), the goal is to reduce the Bad Thing as much as possible. If we’re making fiscal decisions based on the estimated revenue and it…

The insane concentration of real property and wealth in this country indicates to me that in the long run we should really consider abridging or modifying the common law around the Takings Clause. The Government should be able to seize more assets without having to pay out the nose. That’s highly inefficient.

Oh yay Ruth good job way to stick with it.

This week she advocates it, anyway.

Kirsten Gillibrand would like everyone here to know that she helped construct your bullet about Bernie Sanders.

Are you counting the military and the cops? Armed rebellion would turn into a pogrom.

Was it, though?

This whole debate is misguided, IMO. The biggest problem for the Dems is not reclaiming the working class people who switched from Obama to Trump; the biggest threat to Democratic success will be that traditionally soft-liberal suburbanites will balk at taxes necessary to fund the most ambitious social welfare agenda…

I’m still stuck at Hopelessly Republican Senate / Nothing Matters 2020.

Perennial Detroit comeback articles, too.

This will probably be unpopular, but long term I really think progressives really need to consider putting the controlling judicial interpretation of the Takings Clause (market value as “just” compensation) in their sights. We shouldn’t have to break the bank to expropriate the rich.

Guess we’ll find out.

And had we taken the opportunity to go out and beat them with sledgehammers, to pound the hell out of big business and the banks for their corruption of the system and the Republicans’ willingness to help Citibank and Wells Fargo at the expense of ordinary holders of a mortgage, we could have established a populist…

But what about the mean ol’ meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedia???

I don’t think it’s even that conspiratorial. We just have polarized bases now. There’s little to work together on.

Maybe there’s that, but there are also elements of the Democratic coalition that believe that Sanders, Warren and maybe a couple of the others are just too far to the left. And I’m talking Obama era white suburban Panera Democrats, not the Obama-to-Trump white working class voters who have already bolted. My theory is…

“Woohoo, I’m off the hook!”  --Jimmy Madison

Also blunted by the fact that anybody who didn’t vote for Clinton is a moral monster. So should Team Clinton, the DNC, the remnants of Obama for America, etc. have played the game differently because some people are merely likely rather than determined to make this very bad decision? Absolutely. But identifying them…