I'm not calling you an idiot man, nothing to get defensive over. I know finance/econ stuff, you know other stuff I haven't a clue about. Only trying to educate others on the stuff I know. Personally, I don't like our current income tax system. Having 7 brackets is an over simplification relative to how spending habits change as an individual's income level changes. I think the income taxes are too punishing on the the bottom 3 brackets (single filers making less the $91k a year), and not stiff enough on those that earn in excess of $250k a year. However, I don't see Trump's proposed Income Tax plan as a good change for this country... It benefits those in the bottom 3 brackets of our current system insignificantly relative to how much it benefits those at the top. Coupled with Trump's planned Fiscal Policy, this could spell bad news 6-7 years down the road.
I wasn't offended, (yet) but I see how it looks that way, I kinda went off lol. I just don't like our current state & am hoping for a better future & as far as my previous post goes, I was a little insecure with not being educated haha. I did graduate high school though, on time too! lol.
Well, my parents kept me in Pre-K for an extra year because they didn't think I was mature enough to start when I should have. I'm probably also lucky I graduated high school at all.
It'll go back down. The bulk of the people that voted for Trump didn't vote for him because they're racists or bigots, they voted for him because he was the "anti-establishment" candidate. This election wasn't about rationale or policies, it was about populist outlash against the establishment. And boy oh boy are they going to be disappointed by Trump in the coming years. --- Double Post Merged, Nov 11, 2016 --- Of course I could be wrong... With the massive fiscal program Trump is bringing, it could kick the economy into high gear and work out... At the expense of so much more though...
It's realy easy to buy into the media and excitment, but i have to remind myself my attention is best spent elsewhere. Anybody else expecting sombody to snapshot ol' Mcdonald? Wouldn't be suprised
First of all, "hatecrime" doesn't exist. It's stupid and made up. Second of all, since your biases are incredibly obvious, let me just leave you with this. People suck, get over it.
Relax my man, I'm just playing. I'm not a complete moron. Sorry for that bait. But can you elaborate on the 'hatecrime' thing? I don't get what you're saying with that. I mean, it has a description. This is a serious question btw lol
You can make a random sound and give a description and technically it's a word, but that doesn't legitimize the concept at all. The word is commonly used to twist normal, everyday crime into a racial or gender based issue. For example, pretty much every crime involving a white person + any other race is considered a "Hate crime", but the Literal thousands of black on black murders that happen every year in Chicago alone don't count. It suggests that any crime involving race is somehow more heinous than normal, everyday crime. TL/DR: "Hate crime" is just rhetoric used to drive a wedge between races and genders, and I ****ing hate that.
I see, thank you for the explanation. I understand this point of view but there's more to it maybe. Sexual preference, gender, religion, physical appearance etc.
People throw around "hate crime" too lightly, when specifically it must be a crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice. While we should definitely protect minorities, some people overreact and knee-jerk to any diverse crime without evidence that it was motivated by that. However, some are obvious with context.
This is what I was thinking. While the media has a tendency to label any transgression involving more than one race/group/etc as a hate crime, I do think that "hate crime" is a relevant term when actions are specifically driven by the differences between two people/groups/etc. A man who robs a drug store of a person of a differing race, that isn't a hate crime (without additional context), because it likely wouldn't have mattered who ran the drug store, he was going to rob it anyway. A gay guy gets jumped for being gay? Yeah... hate crime. This crime would not have occurred had it not been for the differences between the two parties.
When you come at it from a rational standpoint, it doesn't seem malicious at all. It's just that I've spent a lot of time dealing with SJW's and race-baiters alike, and I've grown sick of their word choice. It seems to be carefully chosen to create as much separation as it possibly can.
When everything is a hate crime, nothing is a hate crime. It's a real thing, and it's terrible, but I agree that the label is applied to many more situations than it should be. The SJW's are shooting themselves in the foot by ramping everything up to the 11th degree. There's some terrible **** that happens in the world that needs to be fought against, but by watering down the message, it only hurts the cause.