The medium sized squid makes a great point: review the lists of most effective charities up there, since those are the ones that do the absolute most good in the world per dollar, and then from that list adjust which ones get donations based on your personal priorities. Anything on those lists can be trusted to spend…

So my tax info is perfectly secure for the IRS’s purposes, but completely public when accessed by literally any other department? I don’t think you understand how government actually works.

It’s ok Tom, Destination Cleveland already has all the promotional materials they need, so the budget can go to other purposes:

Yes, the government definitely had a shortage of lobbyists and Goldman Sachs executives. Glad we solved that.

No problem with that (it’s a good point), but that tax info doesn’t have to be silo’d off, you can use that info without making a payment as part of a tax refund. Tax deductions and credits are the go-to payment methods for almost every proposal that involves transfers, and then the people who vote for those bills…

You hit on one of my pet peeves. One of the dumbest bipartisan practices of the past 50 years in American politics has been the choice to give people money via the tax code, rather than just giving them money. It’s transparently stupid and inefficient, but people for some reason see less withholding or a bigger…

Problem is they did report it (NYT/Wapo especially), but no one paid attention. Whether it’s because they didn’t care, or just viewed everything that wasn’t form partisan media as biased, I don’t know. Agree, though, that false equivalence was a big factor.

Can’t blame the media too much for that; the reporting was out there, it just wasn’t that hyped. We as voters collectively did a crap job.

Maybe, but we can’t say that for certain. Maybe his branding on that was better, but that still doesn’t explain Feingold (or how incumbents did just as well as they usually do). It’s also, coincidentally, a really terrible sign for the populace since everyone who bothered to pay attention knew (and is now proven…

Maybe, but they still soundly rejected the anti-corporate influence candidate in favor of a pro-corporation candidate. It’s a clear refutation. The whites that came out for Trump didn’t care about campaign finance and liberals chose not to rally around that message. While I agree with you that it’s important, it’s…

And yet it’s competitive nationally, and does a good job of telling you how many people want each candidate to be president. The vast majority of House seats are non-competitive as well, as are plenty of smaller states.

Is it? The actual vote for President is a competitive national vote and is pretty important when the context is a president’s mandate.

Sometimes people make mistakes, and sometimes the information available changes. Corrections is how that works. Also, as others have pointed out, while the GOP got more House votes, the Democrats got more President and Senate votes. It’s just a weird thing to pick out as a supposedly damning error.

And yet Russ Feingold, the most prominent voice for campaign finance reform and reducing corporate influence, got beat in Wisconsin. Voters don’t really care.

I don’t really get the point. Republicans were even more pro-trade, pro-meritocracy, anti-social safety net and yet they won. To use the ACA reference as an example, it looks like the problem is that Democrats didn’t solve all our healthcare issues all at once by switching to a single payer system where the…

So they corrected an error in an opinion piece. That sounds like exactly what a legit outfit should do.

Are you kidding? The GOP spent years after Obama’s election embracing conspiracy theories and refusing to even admit that the president was an American. at least this bitching is about real issues.

Reading the Snopes article, it seems they’re only quibbling with who has to perform the funerary services, and not that the obligation exists: “The law, which was passed by the Republican-heavy state legislature, does require that aborted or miscarried fetuses be buried or cremated.”

Specificially in Wisconsin; they went with a billionaire and sunk the campaign finance reformer.

Seriously, no irony has hit me as hard as the anti-PC contingent crying and peeing their pants until they get their safe space because the idea of not having their every desire catered to by every politician triggered them.