In theory casino companies aren’t a terrible idea cause they have the expertise to make incredibly secure machines, but partisan owned company’s scare me.

It’s estimated to be in the neighbor of 3 million a year, but that’s apparently OK ‘cause Biden charged the secret service around $24k/year to rent out a guest cottage on his property. (I made the mistake of wading into the Facebook comments on an article about this)

Same here, my experience is in large part rooted in my own experiences with the NYC Russian Jewish community, which overwhelmingly went for Trump. Granted, I also know shady business owners who didn’t vote for Trump...but I wonder if that plays into the media coverage too.

I’m not sure what skimming isn’t tax fraud...but Yah mostly via tax fraud or legal but shady expensing.

The govt? They don’t report their profits accurately or use money in ways that aren’t perfectly level.

Dunno, Trump seems to mostly be walking that line of gov’ts are obviously doing favors for him, but he can’t reimburse until he takes office. What possibly scares me more is what these gov’ts will do if Trump is impeached before he can pay ‘em back.

Hmm, the ones I know tend to do the skimming mostly by either running cash businesses (wherein every nth purchase isn’t really reported to the gov’t) or very much stretching the definition of “necessary corporate expense” when it comes to stuff they’re purchasing on the company dime. The latter especially falls into…

I wonder if the Clinton campaign threw their hat in the ring to more or less force Stein into calling for the recount rather than running off with the money, ‘specially since Stein is apparently cranky that the Clinton campaign said they’d join in.

My current theory for why his supports do not care is that most of the small business owners I know are skimming at least a little off the top. They look at stuff like conning diplomats into staying at his hotel as a good thing...like he’d have to seriously and blatantly put national interests at risk before maybe,…

And I want to see those numbers qualified with self abortion rates and maternal health rates and number of ER trips due to self abortions/attempts, mostly because (as you pointed out in a different comment), without those numbers the right can easily spin this as “our restrictions worked”

Is there hope here? Like some of the most liberal dems in the senate are on that committee and this is something the teachers union’s are gonna fight tooth and nail...but the Repubs seem like they’ll rubber stamp anything.

I think the current complaints aren’t with the idea of the pipeline, but that the current route runs through ancestral burial grounds and may pose a risk to drinking water.

Why can’t he send in the national guard to protect the protesters? Are they technically trespassing? (And does that matter while this is all tied up in the courts and waiting on I think the Army corps or something?)

/sigh I definitely could have phrased my comment better. Found & read the Heritage article and it does make some good points in the other direction and thank you for encouraging me to seek other viewpoints.

Articles please? My claim is what I’ve been reading in a lot of the news, and I really haven’t seen anything arguing otherwise.

I have a friend who’s enmeshed in ZOA and I don’t even know what to think of her ‘cause of how pro-Bannon they’ve been. Like she’s smarter than that nonsense. Also thoroughly disgusted with how the frum press has been covering Bannon and Trump and the rest. Haaretz is totally right when they say that these orgs…

I’m in favor of a peaceful, two-state solution with a trade of land for peace, and I’d say that most of the other Orthodox Jews that I know are, as well.

Term limits increase the reliance on lobbyists ‘cause they disincentivize congress people from building up knowledge or experience on policy issues and how to get things done in gov’t. The five year ban sounds great but lobbyists say it’ll actually increase curruption by pushing lobbying underground.

Oh, he has some issues, look at how difficult his life is, we just need to be understanding as he lashes out in this time, blah blah blah.

So much this. Like this is a liberalization of where the church stands on abortion because there’s a huge difference between unforgivable sins, forgivable but have to jump through hoops sins, and forgivable by your local Catholic priest sins. I hope this eventually trickles down to a loosening of restrictions in the…