“If congress wants to really force individuals to be brought to testify from subpoenas, they will have to hold them in inherent contempt. That means the sergeant at arms will detain anyone who refuses to show up to testify, and would be a big political step by Democrats. We'll see if Pelosi and Nadle…”
- WILLIAM W
“19% is too low of a tax on people making over $70,000 a year, and far too low for over $100,000. If someone makes $15,000 a year, a 19% tax cuts into their basic means of survival, including paying for health care, shelter, and food. A 19% tax on a millionaire, however, doesn't make such a person he…”
- WILLIAM W
“We have recently been informed that Bashir al Assad has created concentration camps where defectors to his rule are rounded up and incinerated. When the leader of a country intends to quell dissent by purging millions of the innocent through death camps, that's when we should realize this is no ordi…”
- WILLIAM W
“This would do the opposite of it's intention. If we want to cut the budget to pay off debt, we have to maintain overall budget plans for each year rather than decide how to fiscally spend without any baseline of what's acceptable for each category of expenditure. If we only look at spending of each …”
- WILLIAM W
“The issue with assuming that people would simply switch providers if one blocks or slows certain domains is that there are too few legitimate providers for that to be effective, creating an oligopoly over the internet with too few options for people to choose from. That's why providers need to be re…”
- WILLIAM W
“People who are against this strike who think it's "Trump being Trump" are sadly mistaken. It was expected North Korea would be the main challenge in foreign policy for the next president long before elections even started—Obama said so himself. They have been in the process of building nuclear weapo…”
- WILLIAM W
“Republicans angry that the EPA administrator doesn't remove basic scientific findings. Unbelievable. You can say you want to promote fossil fuels, but if you simply deny empirically proven science that's unanimously agreed on by climatologists who have studied the matter, there's a problem. It means…”
- WILLIAM W
“The 9th circuit is indeed too big; one fifth of the population should not be represented by 1 of 12 courts. That's mathematically disproportionate. But we should not approve of how republicans want to split it up, which is effectively gerrymandering. It should be done by a non-partisan commission to…”
- WILLIAM W
“Enjoy your $0 minimum wage after being laid off. And for anyone that has a higher salary? You risk losing benefits and salary, or decrease the chance of a raise, because the minimum wage employers have to pay those at the bottom will be compensated for somehow. And this doesn't even touch the negati…”
- WILLIAM W