The fact people had to wait in an ambulance for 30 minutes prior to being treated proves . . . what?

I think the pill or implant should be standard for everyone until they reach adulthood.

No, it’s accurate. How did our “No Child Left Behind” plan work out, for example? We saw great results in education, right? Right?

Government has absolutely, undeniably alleviated poverty.

They’re politicians speaking in sound bites. It’s done intentionally to drive home their message to the people they’re trying to reach.

I’m right about both.

I don’t think it matters what Administration started them or when they started. Cabrini Green was built in the ‘40s and it was a disaster from the beginning. The same is true for virtually every similar housing project across America. There is no debate as to whether these plans succeeded. They didn’t. That’s why they…

No. You get the mortgage deduction for one home where the mortgage is $500,000 or less. It’s based on the value of the mortgage, not income.

There are many examples. Let’s start with housing. Blacks and other minorities are not able to afford housing so the government constructs large housing projects that will allow them to live in urban areas where jobs are available and, the hope is, this will both (a) give them affordable housing and (b) allow them to…

You can still deduct your mortgage interest and student loans from your taxes and have been able to do so for a long time.

Hell yes. That would be a better use of my tax money than paying for a kid for 18 years.

So that makes everything he wrote about wrong? Who the fuck cares whether he lives in Appalachia “proper” or some other shithole?

I sincerely doubt that the people Vance writes about will be impacted by the modification of either of those deductions.

If someone’s on welfare, they should not be permitted to have any more fucking kids. Period. If they do, they should get cut off from all welfare benefits.

I’m an old and, in my lifetime, I think it’s safe to say that government intervention to “fix” social problems rarely produces the intended result.

But as many have pointed out, the book is not much more than a recycling of welfare-bashing tropes. The only difference is that it targets the white working-class of Appalachia instead of people of color.

I don’t know about that. The link in this article takes you to another one from this site that says he raised $12M. So, I think the guy’s got access to funds.

You’re right, I didn’t read the entire article. I did, though, read the opinion this shitty article is based upon and have linked to it repeatedly.

I don’t think that’s what happened, though. The book had already been written and was in the can but then Milo acted Milo-ey and S&S said “fuck this” and refused to publish it.

Huh. I would have thought that this would be the type of case where lawyers would be crawling out of the woodwork to take on a contingency fee. There’s $10M at stake so we’re not talking chump change.