Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Politics In General Is it too soon to be talking 2020?

Better to have both options . If people want to flee because they hear dogs barking, that's obviously preferable. If they are armed themselves... dog's will mostly just announce their arrival and then slow them down.

But, yeah, we are thinking Chickens, a good vegetable garden, a goat, enough woods to perhaps do some light trapping/hunting, some solar, and a well.



Truth. There are basically two and a half levels of college in America

1. The Ivy Leagues for particular job fields (Harvard Law is different than Harvard Social Studies)
2. Everyone else, except perhaps Phoenix University
2a. Phoenix University

Where you fall in the second category doesn't really determine your job prospects all that much.


Inheritance is way overplayed as a source of wealth in America and as a source of wealth inequality. You could have taxed 100% of everything Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet inherited and made not a difference at all to wealth inequality.

Real economists disagree with you armchair economist types.

What percentage of American Millionaires offhand (no looking) would you say inherited their wealth?

Donald Trump.

Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet are the extremely rare exceptions because how ever much they inherited is dwarfed by what they have built. I am thinking much more of rich families with trust funds for all, that ensure they never have to do anything useful in their lives.

We are mostly conditioned to think of a million dollar inheritance as a big deal. But that's not 1%. That's not even 5%. These inheritances are in the hundreds of millions. If you want to exempt estates under 5 million, that's fine. A few years back the real owners of the Republican Party were willing to trade the 10 million dollar exemption for a 5 million dollar exemption with a slightly lower rate. If you did the math, that would benefit heirs of 100 million dollar estates, not the 10 million dollar farmers and small business owners Republicans claimed to represent.

That's what my oldest daughter married into.

I don't know that there are an awful lot of those folks. God bless 'em for having rich parents, we should all be so lucky! And so should our kids.

But right now, there is too much wealth concentrated at the top and it needs to find a safety valve to get it back into circulation, a legislated trickle down, so to speak.

Yup.


As of last year, there were about 7.5 million "Millionaire Households"; about 79% of them did not inherit any money, and only 3% became a millionaire by inheritance.

Your statistics pretty much prove my point: A millionaire household is just a working couple or even a single salary with a good job, and some prudent saving and investment. Those are NOT the trust fund families I'm talking about.

A household that earns a million per year is something altogether different.

This is why I say set the inheritance tax exemption at 5 or even 10 million, and you get rid of obscene wealth that corrupts governments into making themselves even richer.

Apparently Trump is totally freaked out and screaming at his campaign people when they tell him he is losing in the polls. They finally convinced him his daily press bitch sessions were hurting a lot more than helping. I think he's going to stage a big rally soon somewhere, and get a lot of his supporters dead. Or just have a stroke.

He's also gone back to flatly stating that the virus will "just go away... it will be eradicated, without a vaccine."



There is a lot to unpack in that statement.
Not a lot of different things, just one really REALLY BIG THING.
The fact that Trump says he believe the virus will go away without a vaccine indicates that Donald Trump isn't the least bit interested in developing one, and in fact he may even try to manipulate the effort to benefit his own agenda, even if to do so would destroy the effort altogether.

As with anything Trump, expect the unexpected. Far as he's concerned, vaccines are some unknowable unobtanium thing that to him costs too much, and takes too long, and he just doesn't give two sh!ts about them.

Don't be surprised if he decides to target ANY federal help in the vaccine effort.