Goddamn those time-travelling Venezuelans.

Dude come on.

Hillary Clinton dismissed President Trump as an “illegitimate president” and suggested that “he knows” that he stole the 2016 presidential election in a CBS News interview to be aired Sunday.

Housing costs are included in CPI. What I’m saying is i agree with the current methodology. Do you know what the current methodology is? It does make sense.

I don’t agree with putting home prices in cpi, because a small number of home sales would dramatically swing inflation, so yeah while it’s a really critical number for people looking to buy a home it is not a good litmus test for the average purchasing power when there are better imputed metrics like “owner cost or equivalent rent”.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trump-is-an-illegitimate-president/2019/09/26/29195d5a-e099-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html

https://nypost.com/2022/01/10/harris-comms-chief-called-bush-43-illegitimate-president/amp/

So if they’re hidden how do you know they are at record levels?

Buying power is not going down. Do you at least have a source for that?

I think you might be talking about the productivity-pay gap but it has nothing to do with purchasing power.

Inflation adjusted wages are going up: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

No one measures the economy based on stock prices.

Inflation is going down, real wages are going up, unemployment is down.

Your grocery costs have not doubled.

I don’t understand why people have trouble finding current data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Corporate profits are relatively flat as a percentage of national income (it has gone up a bit since COVID): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A445RE1A156NBEA

People always seem to remember to adjust wages for inflation but understandably because of media headlines almost never adjust profits for inflation.

There’s a FRED series called real disposable income: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A229RX0

Which is after-tax personal income adjusted for inflation.

Pretty sure it’s measured by gdp

What was Robert mueller investigating?

So is it okay to steal from your slightly richer neighbour? What about stealing from your parents who have more wealth than you and are not sharing it with you? If someone starts a small business should we just ransack it the moment is starts doing well?

What if people on the street rob and steal from you? Does it matter if it’s by violence?

Are people happier in countries where there is more theft? Are the societies more equal?

I guess to go back to my earlier point what I’m trying to get people to think about it is this idea of a categorical imperative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative?wprov=sfti1

In a nut-shell, if you believe stealing is okay under certain circumstance due to some subjective morality you hold, you cannot condemn others holding the same belief based on their own subjective mortality.

For example you believe stealing is okay because the target is a corporation. Maybe someone else believes stealing is okay if it’s from someone outside their cultural group. You say, “hey it’s not right to steal from someone just because of some subjective value that you hold!” But it’s a contradiction because you believe stealing is okay based on your own subjective morality regarding corporations (which are recognized as people under law). Same goes for people that steal from the government, their parents, etc.

This isn’t a slippery slope argument, this is a question of ethics. What I’m saying is stealing is unethical, and not by contrast immoral.

Source?

According to the tax foundation 42% of all tax revenues come from the top 1% and 63% comes from the top 5%.

https://taxfoundation.org/publications/latest-federal-income-tax-data/

If you mean capital gains tax that’s a different story. Should be raised imo.

FYI here’s the tax mix by type: https://taxfoundation.org/publications/sources-government-revenue-united-states/#:~:text=Corporate income taxes accounted,U.S. tax revenue in 2021.&text=Source%3A OECD%2C “Revenue Statistics,taxes and property taxes.

Corporate taxes are low but the majority of filings are done at an individual. Every corporation distributes its income to shareholders by dividends or capital gains which are claimed on individual filings.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double_taxation.asp#:~:text=Double taxation refers to income,taxed by two different countries.

Probably on a per capita basis but we are all contributing to climate change (the majority of it): https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data

Do you have a source?

I haven’t specifically looked at While Foods but I’m guessing the higher-priced premium products cost more at wholesale and therefore don’t produce better margins.