You’re right. How could anyone know what he thinks about various issues? He’s only introduced in to the Senate bills doing things like Medicare For All (the bill previous to the one in the article, S.1084), making it easier for American workers to form and join unions with the Workplace Democracy Act (S.2180),…

Greece spent in a currency it did not control. The Euro. Argentina spent in a currency it controlled but had artificially pegged to the US dollar over which it had no control. Weimar Germany was before the modern international monetary system existed with the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. So all of your examples have…

““People live within their means and they are responsible with the decisions that they make, and we expect the same from our federal government.””

The richest country doesn’t imply an infinite fiscal capacity for every possible program we would want to implement in a perfect world. It’s like you are trying to create a straw man version of an advocate for a stronger, more active state for the right to attack.

“If the theory behind social democracy is supposed to work with the United States’ current size, then it should also work with the additional influx of people from immigration”

“Stopping jobs from going over seas is impossible in the system we live in”

Actually, you can start breathing again. The electoral college doesn’t need to be abolished through a constitutional amendment because the National Interstate Vote Compact will effectively nullify the electoral college. They only need states worth 270 of the “votes” to sign up for the agreement to come in to effect.…

I don’t know about every state, but in many states “professional athletes” are either completely excluded or partially excluded from state workers’ compensation coverage.

Wait, so right now McDonald’s is just giving people jobs when they don’t actually need those peoples’ labor? Wow. I didn’t know McDonald’s was a charity or jobs program. Since you say McDonald’s can easily cut workers they must be currently employing more people than they need to produce the goods their customers…

What the fuck does “artificially” mean in this context? All prices for all goods are based on the laws relating to that good. “The market” only exists because of laws and prices in the market are related to those laws. Labor is the same. Every price is “artificial” if a minimum wage is an “artificial” price.

It’s funny how you try to use “economicsy” words to say something completely ridiculous and the opposite of basic economic concepts.

Biden’s work on multiple bankruptcy “reform” bills should be disqualifying in the Democratic primary by itself. It was a disgusting change to help big creditors by using fake anecdotes and massaged data to suggest the biggest problem was non-rich people living it up on credit cards/other unsecured debt and laughing…

Because it’s not “more money for everyone”. It’s more money for some, less money for the poorest Americans who currently receive the most assistance from the programs Yang would cut as part of his plan.

Focusing on the “average” amount people receive is dumb. Some people receive way more than $700 and some people get nothing. The people who receive more than $700 (and I’m just assuming you’re right with that number) are for the most part, the most needy.

The UK conservatives (and New Labour) wanted the east and their poor citizens for low cost labor and new markets. Globalization was touted by people like Friedman as unalloyed good with no possible downsides. Poor immigrants come and become slightly less poor, the rich have more people to sell stuff to and become…

Sex is a binary. There is male and female. A small number of outliers like with intersex people doesn’t change that.

They understand. They are just think “validating” trans women as 100% female is more important than the reasons why we have female sporting categories in the first place. That’s why the science will never actually matter. Because the science is only ever used to tell female athletes to shut up and accept trans women…

While it’s pretty clear she didn’t transition for the purpose of sports, Hannah Mouncey was an international level handball player as a male. She would crush even the best female Australian Rules footballers. Female athletes at the highest level don’t care about schlubs transitioning and then trying to beat them. They…

The article obviously made a choice to feature only the voices of gop politicians to represent the opposition to trans women freely participating in female sports for a reason. An “if only bad people are against it, then it must be good” kind of argument.

“But, once you actually get the information, it turns out that the answer is, “If you take some reasonable measures, no.”