That sounds good in theory, but maybe you should talk to some of those folks that were getting ready to retire on all that beautiful stock market money in 2008. Or to someone that became disabled decades before they would have retired.

So why isn’t it stealing when the rich guy takes my money and slogs it off into his account in the Caymans? After all, if the obscenely rich didn’t possess such an outsize portion of the wealth, maybe the rest of us could do things like buy our food, pay our rent, and invest for our retirement.

The sad part is that you actually believe that crap.

“That is why government should butt the F out of personal finances, let us keep our money to invest as we see fit.”

Um, except actually, the majority of people *will* still get out everything if not more. In fact, it’s only been recently that we’ve reached a point where it’s accurate to say that many people won’t get back as much as they’ve paid in. And if the cap had been raised instead of raising the percentage withheld, we’d…

I swear, if you weren’t already married, I think I’d ask you to gay-marry me and take me away to Germany. The whole being straight part could make that awkward, but it might be worth it.

I hate to break this to you, sunshine, but “we” most absolutely DO pay those employees. You talk as though you think that employers are scrimping and saving to hand over their own money - do you really not understand that those employees are paid with a portion of the money that “we” hand over?

Because obviously if there is no longer a need for someone to take the order at McDonald’s, there are no more jobs at McDonald’s or anywhere else.

Why would anyone be offering to help on this message board? It’s not as though the family is hanging around here reading it.

I’m NOT crazy. My mother had me tested.

Well, technically, I suppose you have a point there.

If nothing else, would you please decide whether you think the social safety net is Marxist or Socialist? Technically, it’s neither, but it certainly can’t be both.

I remember at least one case back in the early days of the AIDS epidemic of a dying patient from a medical center (?)Florida(?) was brought to SF and basically dumped on a hospital doorstep. I’m furious about that to this day.

You forgot “Benghazi”.

Well, I already search out small distillers and local breweries, so I suppose it’s no big deal to add artisanal cannabis to the list. Hell, there’s no shortage of people that actually drink PBR and Coors Light of their own free will, so there’s bound to be people with a nostalgic hankering for Mexican brick weed.

Just reading “OG Devil Jamberry Dank” makes me want to smoke it.

Well, it’s not reasonable suspicion in states with legal cannabis, whether medical or recreational. Odor *can* still be used as reasonable suspicion in states where all possession is illegal.

Law enforcement doesn’t need a way to test for impairment, and that’s aside from the fact that a test doesn’t prove impairment in the first place. It only proves a number that’s legally accepted as automatic proof of impairment, whether or not the driver actually is impaired.

Well, not everyone. Some of us are waiting for states like Colorado to set up a refugee program so we can apply for sanctuary. I’m still hoping to someday escape from Brownbackistan...

There’s no need for a cannabis test. DUI can be charged now if the driver is impaired, it simply requires an officer to make the case to the judge. That’s easier now than at any point in history, thanks to dash cams and body cams that make it possible to literally show the judge everything the officer saw.