Point of order... subsidies, not subsidiaries.

Only if it happened twice. Oh wait...

Looks interesting, but more Starcraft-y than SimCity-ish. Cool!

Nothing argumentative, just adding some more color, to lead towards connecting with the “rural hospitals shutting down” stories, and make the question more “Would you rather pay less than a penny a year from your taxes to help these people out, or risk losing your local hospital entirely?”

Do you mean larger scale than the Sims, but not quite at the scale of Civilization?

In the first case (with Medicaid), the cost is spread across many taxpayers.

The ones that still believe in trickle-down believe that their benefactors (employers) will do right by them, possibly because that’s what they (think they) would do in that position. Any other supporting theory tends to blow up almost immediately.

State/district, not federal dollars there.

Indeed. Quite probably magnitudes more for specific clauses of the 2nd Amendment, for instance.

That damned Penguin... *grumbles*

A step down from being in prison, where at least they can drink from toilets?

Yep, all things in moderation, even moderation. I don’t want to live on coconuts and lemonade, or tofu and limes... I could, and I’d probably add another twenty years to my life... but that loses a whole dimension.

Eventually... it’s not like an impeachment would be otherwise trivial in terms of time spent and political capital. It’s somewhat less likely that they would have time to accomplish that tax plan after spending the months to work through impeachment, and there’s risk of enraging their base in time for mid-terms,…

I think at least some of that boils down to the devolution of a metagame into rock-paper-scissors, which would in this case be “Eevee based, took up a slot to deal with Eevee-based, didn’t take up a slot to deal with Eevee-based”. Which centers around your asterisk, rather than the “it’s legal, deal with it”... its…

To continue to be fair, some of those “transport specialists” and heavy machine operators would potentially be snapped up by a different supply chain, like transporting solar panels, trailers of battery packs, etc., at the very least in the medium term.

Is this comment racist, or sexist? See related preceding comment in this block, http://www.theroot.com/1819280434 - it should be the exception when they go boom, and pointed out often and loudly when they do go boom, don’t try to make it the norm.

“Why are you treating this as exceptional when it should be normal, expected behavior?”

Originally, it was for Italian Americans to tell the rest of the US at the time that they were just as entitled to be here, thankyouverymuch. That purpose has probably been served and surpassed at this point...