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A Logical Liberal retweeted
Who would have thought that people’s fear of being called “racist” would be the root of our undoing.
A Logical Liberal retweeted
Leftists are scrambling to take ownership of this Democratic victory, but in fact it was the normie libs who rose up against Trump, while leftists focused their fire on Democrats
A Logical Liberal retweeted
This is what happens when people mistake a board game for an economics education.
Monopoly has a fixed amount of wealth, no innovation, no investment, no productivity growth, and no new businesses. Capitalism has spent centuries doing precisely what Monopoly cannot, creating wealth that didn't previously exist.
The richest people in 1900 couldn't buy an antibiotic, a smartphone, or a commercial flight. Today, ordinary people have access to things kings couldn't have imagined.
Monopoly is a game about acquiring existing assets. Capitalism is an economic system that allows people to create entirely new ones.
If your understanding of economics comes from passing Go and collecting $200, perhaps sit this one out.
A Logical Liberal retweeted
There is a 99% chance that our 2028 nominee will be someone that the online left rejects. They’ll be accused of supporting genocide, serving corporations, covering up a murder, all kinds of crazy shit.
So let’s just get right to it, ok? No need for fake solidarity!
A Logical Liberal retweeted
Basically, liberalism is under a pincer attack. The right is increasingly deranged, while the leftists spend all day trying to stab liberals in the back.
But for the first time in a long time, it feels like liberalism is beating back the pincer attack.
A Logical Liberal retweeted
We have no idea what healthcare costs to buy or costs to provide in this country. None.
States cover Medicaid at some level, but not all offer the same care. Nor do they all receive federal support in the same way.
Traditional Medicare requires supplemental and drug coverage. All of which differ by plan, and are offered by mostly huge conglomerates we should break up and are Too Big To Care
Medicare Advantage is all offered by those same Too Big To Care conglomerates. Every contract with a provider differs and while those contracts have pricing that is transparent, the fees and other charges are not.
67 pct of employees that get coverage from work get it from a self insured employer. I can tell you with absolute certainty that most get it from the same conglomerates as well. As a results they have zero idea how much they are paying for medical care or medications (even with recent legislation)
Every thing that is covered and paid for in this country has an actual cost, across the direct costs and indirect costs, that is hidden by the Too Big to Care conglomerates that should be broken up.
Market Dominant hospitals and most non profit hospitals are not innocent. They play along when they have to, use their own leverage when they can. Increasing the cost of care.
And the PBMs that are owned by the conglomerates have bastardized the cost of brand and specialty drugs in a way that should be investigated by the DOJ.
Put simply , HUGE dominant distributors are forced by PBMs to pay RETAIL Price for drugs that make them unaffordable to everyone.
If we want universal care, we can say the Feds will negotiate , but the information asymmetry is so insane, they will be negotiating blind.
The first thing a bi partisan legislation should do is require that all healthcare contracts be made public with no redactions other than personal information
AND
All claims be de-identified and available exclusively to state and federal researchers to determine what care and medications COULD cost.
Then we can start to extrapolate what care we need to provide and then determine what it costs and whether it will save or cost us money.
In parallel we can determine how we will deal with the technology and processes to handle implementation of some version of universal care
What would Medicare for All look like if it were funded through a payroll tax?
CBO’s broadest illustrative coverage scenario requires approximately $3 trillion in additional annual federal funding in 2030, including dental, vision, hearing, and expanded long term care.
On an assumed $14 trillion payroll base, funding that gap would require approximately 21.4% in additional combined employer and employee payroll taxes, while existing federal health funding continues.
Split equally, with no cap on taxable wages, that means 10.7% from you and 10.7% from your employer:
• $50,000 salary: $5,350 more annually from each.
• $100,000 salary: $10,700 more from each.
• $150,000 salary: $16,050 more from each.
• $250,000 salary: $26,750 more from each.
• $500,000 salary: $53,500 more from each—$107,000 combined annually!
Everyone with taxable wages contributes, while coverage extends to children, retirees, and people who aren’t working.
Covered insurance premiums would disappear. Some workers and employers would save overall. Others would pay more. Employer contributions also affect the cost of employing someone and can influence wages and hiring.
This is an illustrative calculation using CBO’s spending estimate, not a CBO-scored tax proposal. Exemptions, changes in wages and employment, and other funding sources would change the required rate.
Replacing premiums with taxes changes how we pay for healthcare. It does not eliminate the cost of providing it.
A Logical Liberal retweeted
Data centers could gain a lot of community support by subsidizing or paying 100% of local citizens power bills.
Would cost about $20 million annual
Peanuts for gaining massive support.
A Logical Liberal retweeted
The election data clearly show that the DSA left and the extreme MAGA right both lost. Americans have had enough of dangerous extremism on both ends of the political spectrum. The only logical response is for both parties to now move aggressive toward the sensible center and get to work on common-sense solutions for all Americans.
A Logical Liberal retweeted
The places with the strongest teachers unions closed schools the longest during the COVID timeframe. Those places suffered the greatest learning loss.
Unions serve teachers not students.
Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education.
The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her.
MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school."
HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities."
MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one."
HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad."
MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better."
HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia."
MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—"
HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period."
MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue."
HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time."
MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW."
ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW."
MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one."
CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test.
And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500.
Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power.
A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws.
If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students."
A Logical Liberal retweeted
I do not trust anyone—left, right or libertarian—rooting for America to fail.
A Logical Liberal retweeted
SpaceX will attempt to catch both the Super Heavy booster and Starship on the upcoming flight.
If both are successful, it will mark the first time that all parts of an orbital rocket return to Earth intact.
This is the critical breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary.
More than a dozen flight tests and years of development, with countless hours worked by SpaceX engineers and technicians, all come down to this: the first orbital Starship launch carrying advanced Starlink satellites bound for space.
Watch “Go For Orbit” and experience the moments behind flying the most ambitious Starship mission yet
A Logical Liberal retweeted
Liberals are always screeching "Its the end of Democracy!" and then democracy happens through an actual vote and they want to nullify it.
They hate democracy.
A Logical Liberal retweeted
This was a very good night for center-left and moderate Dems. A big win in the House means the DSA can’t hold the Party hostage like the Freedom Caucus did with the GOP. Speaker Jeffries will be a solid, common-sense leader.
Above all, this was a massive rebuke of Donald Trump.
A Logical Liberal retweeted
The DSA’s worst nightmare is Democrats proving they can win WITHOUT embracing socialism or extremism.
James Talarico wins TEXAS. Roy Cooper flips NORTH CAROLINA. Mainstream Democrats are breaking through Republican territory.
The DSA confuses ideological purity with electoral strength. Americans want affordability, public safety, competent government, and results that help their lives get better. Most Americans are nauseated by ideological lectures, political purity tests, and revolutionary cosplay.
The Democratic Party doesn’t need to move further left to win. It needs to remember how to appeal to people outside its own political bubble.
Sticking to real Democratic values.
By focusing on the demands of Americans is how you build a governing majority.
