Yes, I knew all that. The question in my post was a rhetorical one.

Here’s a blunt force example: The family that makes a third of that $87k gets Medicare. They take their kid to the ER, the hospital gets paid. Without Medicare, the hospital writes off the cost, but what that really means is that they pass it on to the Eighty-Seven Kays.

I know people who live in Plano who drive on the Tollway every day and bitch about the cost but can’t wait to have lower taxes. What’s the opposite of cognitive dissonance?

So it’s the Dennis Moore Plan?

I suspect that Feistess, like many of us, is using “paying taxes” to describe the check you write to the IRS when you file your taxes. I’m sure she is well aware of the other taxes that are deducted automatically throughout the year.

“Thinking” I dunno. Hoping maybe?

I was going to say I have no idea because economics is not my strong suit, but I realized we have fairly recent examples from history to draw on. How did we build a robust middle class and widespread prosperity after WWII? And what did our government do in later decades to help poor folks who didn’t benefit nearly…

I heard about it just last night on Rachel Maddow’s show when she reported on some people who have already died due to leptospirosis. You’re right, there’s more horror to come.

You can’t blame that on Ben Sasse, he votes with the Occupant of the Oval Office 95% (last I checked, may be +/- 2%) of the time. He likes to talk independent but when it’s time for action he falls in line with a charming smile.

>The proper way to think about it is, “How can the government remedy gross economic inequality by moving wealth from those who have too much to those who have too little?”

That kid is already going to be getting attention, so this is not shorting him/her of the care s/he needs.

That’s about the age one of my nephews was when he learned the limits of sorry. He was hitting my parents’ elderly dog on the head with a toy gun.

Let me know how it goes.

You may be pleasantly surprised. There’s a lot of pieces, but most of them are pretty distinct so you won’t find yourself trying to figure out if this is the left/right top or left/right bottom piece. The repetitious ones are all the little shelves and they go together a lot like an Expedit/Kallax once you get them…

Judy Blume, actually. :-)

For example, I will wear my hat at casual dining establishments.

No, that’s not related. When you get checked, and I did every so often, if you don’t pass they shut you down until you can show the pumps have been repaired/calibrated by an approved tech. I never had to do that, so no idea how it works in action, but I asked the testing guy one time about it.

It says transferred because they’re active duty, they can’t exactly be fired since they’re on the job 24-7 technically. But they’re probably on barracks duty (if not straight confined there) until the proceedings can be held.  I wouldn’t be surprised if that happened next week because the Navy likes to work quickly on…

I’m always good for a little bail money. Call it my White Privilege Tax.

If it’s okay with you, this white feminist approves your comments 100%. I will also add that this is one of the situations that word was made for. (I hate it when it’s used in other ways that implies it’s a friendly word, but that’s probably because I’m old and that’s my problem.)