Look at Mr FancyPants over here, having a washing machine in their apartment as well as a bathroom.... Man I miss not having to pay $5.00 to do laundry, someday I guess... Someday. :D

I’m not judging your generosity. I’m judging your logic and reasoning. You are the one that seems to be judging your generosity by wearing it on your sleeve. I’ve said multiple times good on you for giving to charity. No need to brag about it. Your whole argument from the start was “Universal Health Care is a waste of…

Once again missing the point, your whole argument is risk vs reward. I was just pointing out the flaw in your logic. You said, it’s not a good return on my money to invest in national healthcare because your risk is low. Your logic not mine. You then bragged about having extra insurance on your car, like it was a…

For starters, you linked the data not me. It supported the argument I was making and I pointed it out. So thank you for that. Perhaps you might want to stop repeating talking points and actually look behind the curtain. Typical conservative argument: “I don’t trust the experts because they are educated but I’ll put my…

Medicare is not complete coverage, and while it is good. It could be better. With that being said. It’s not just a chronic disease you have to worry about but those instant acute ones too. It’s the car accident when the second driver doesn’t have insurance, it’s a trip to the ER, or a serious sickness that lands you…

As for deficit spending you are correct this is a mixed bag. The question is however, is how the money is spent. But, in both the cases I listed below the spending might pay for itself through increased wages and job growth. However... it could also be off set by say closing corporate loopholes, keeping the estate…

Cost analysis on infrastructure spending in US, is a bit more complicated but here is a nice long bit that puts forward a few scenarios, lets do the most generous:

Education ROI:

Please cite your sources if you are going to throw numbers out. I’m not doing your work for you. You seem to be cherry picking numbers. But lets assume they are true, I’m guessing those high numbers might be due to a disease like cancer. Okay, if someones child, mother, grandma, father, grandpa has cancer and needs…

They may pay more up front, they will pay less in the long run. When someone can’t pay their medical bills who do you think foots the bill for that?

We all do.

When someone can’t afford basic checkups and out patient care and waits till the last minute to get help because they have a high deductible and ends up…

1.) There is a thing as too much money, just as there is a thing as too much food, too much water, too much air, too much etc... You can only buy so much.. and at least right now you can not take ANY of it with you. There is a limit to how much you can spend in a day as an individual. Once you reach that limit, you…

I think the argument for higher taxes on the wealthy goes like this: You can only contribute to the economy so much, say I make a million dollars a year... I’m still one individual... I still drink the same amount of coffee, I still need the same amount of cars/beds/computers/cell phones. Sure I can buy extra but at…

Just like the GOP is doing now with first the Replace and Repeal, and now Tax “Reform”.... Seriously if their shit is so great they’d not need to cheat the system to do so. As it stands I give tax reform a 50/50 at best to pass.

No more than 10%, before the ACA there was no limit. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start.

My partner and I found an extra $350/mo in rent money so we could move closer to our respective works. It used to be a 1.5 hour daily commute, now it’s 10 and 15 minutes respectively. We ended up breaking even because we now have more time to cook and the energy to do it with. I also fill up my tank once every 2-3…

Hmm, yeah I guess someone does have to buy the token. I was mistaken in thinking Blizzard just seeds the markets with tokens but someone does have to buy one. Still bots do kind of defeat the whole point of swapping gold for in game time. (shrug)

I’m surprised Blizzard hasn’t done more of this, with greater frequency. Now that you can use in-game gold to buy monthly game time and also sell those tokens for “Blizzard bucks” (You can convert them into money but only use it to purchase Blizzard games) there is an actual real cost for letting these services stay…

Honestly, I’m surprised Blizzard doesn’t do more of this. Now that you can use in-game gold to buy monthly game time (a 14.99 value) and also sell those tokens for “Blizzard bucks” (You can convert them into money but only use it to purchase Blizzard games) there is an actual real cost for letting these services stay…

I use the term loosely as an illustrative point, not as common practice.

I use the term loosely as an illustrative point, not as common practice.