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School choice
- only rich had it
- poor deserve it
- THEIR lifetime of edu taxes, not yours
- EXACTLY like soc security, medicare, housing assistance, Pell grants, etc
- credits INCREASES pub school $/student
- higher college accept. rates
- logical/equitable
- 75% support
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Nothing to add on the play under college rules, but since I work on Sundays too, I think it’s worth discussing the ruling in the NFL.
On Sunday, the rule is: he must gain control, get 2 feet or another body part other than hand down inbounds, *AND* perform an act common to the game or have time to do so while maintaining control.
The NFL rule book lists specific acts that meet the last requirement, one of which is to take an additional step while maintaining control.
The bobble I mentioned is a clear loss of control and occurs before the additional step is clearly down. That makes this play an incomplete pass in the NFL as well.
Without that loss of control, he would have gotten the additional step down with control and it would have been a catch and touchdown.
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“We studied 1,600 data centers ... and we find that they create non-construction jobs.”
An Ohio economics professor says data centers generate an estimated 1,000–1,300 additional jobs within 3–5 years of opening.
That's ON TOP of the jobs needed to build them.
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If you only watch ONE Stephen Miller video… please watch this one.
Miller absolutely NUKING Jim Acosta from orbit here is a masterclass in dismantling liberal ideology.
I never saw this when I was a liberal years ago.
I wish I had because this may have changed my mind.
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Mark, you started by saying we have no idea what healthcare costs to buy or to provide in this country. None. Then your conclusion is to propose that the people who cannot see the costs should be the ones to run it.
There is a reason nobody knows what anything costs, and you listed it yourself. Medicaid, Medicare, supplemental plans, Medicare Advantage, self insured employers under a tax code that hides the premium in the paycheck. Every layer you named is a government program or a government created structure, and in every one of them the person getting the care is not the person paying for it. That is where the price went. Prices exist where buyers pay. Remove the buyer and you get exactly the fog you are describing. Universal care removes every buyer who is left.
Then look at what you are asking for. Every private contract in the industry published by federal order. Every claim in the country handed to state and federal researchers. The DOJ turned loose on the pricing structure. Bipartisan legislation to work out what care we need to provide and what it should cost. That is not a market reform. That is the state seizing the information of an entire industry so it can set the terms of trade for every doctor, hospital, and patient in the country. You call the conglomerates Too Big To Care. The entity you want running it is the only one with a monopoly on force.
And the number. The post you are replying to has CBO at $3 trillion a year in new federal spending, 21.4 percent of payroll, with the author conceding it is illustrative and not scored. You respond that nobody knows the real cost and we should find out after we commit. No investor you have ever met would fund a company on those terms, and you have never funded one that way yourself. Only government gets to spend money first and discover the price later, because only government can send the bill to people who did not agree to it.
The information asymmetry you are describing is not a reason to negotiate blind. It is a reason to stop having a single buyer negotiating at all. Put the patient back in the transaction and prices appear on their own. Cost Plus is proof that you already know this.
Mises showed a century ago that a planner without prices cannot calculate, Hayek showed why the knowledge he needs is never in one place, and Rand showed why he has no right to try. You are proposing to prove all three wrong with a commission while you admit no one has any idea how much all of it will cost. Do you think they did not know what they were talking about, or do you just not want to find out?
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
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Agree completely with Rep. Harrison. Texas GOP should eliminate governor’s emergency powers. (In KY, our GOP legislature did just that!)
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Serious question, if the Muslims being elected today are not responsible for 9/11 then how am I as a white man responsible for slavery that happened 150 years ago.
The left can’t have it both ways on this. I’m just looking for a little consistency.
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I have said this before, I'll say it again: I'm self-employed. Under the ACA, my premiums went from under $800/month (family of 7) to $3300/month in 4 years. My original plan was cancelled (catastrophic care.) Yet deductible was the same. After Trump in 2016, I was able to get a catastrophic care plan again -- though $800 for family of 2. I have lots of experience and more to say about this, but ultimately, the ACA raised costs exponentially across the board and can't sustain.
The claims of the ACA were:
1. Going to save families $2,500 a year
2. Going to lower the deficit
3. You could keep your doctor
The reality is:
1. 80% of doctors are employed
2. The costs of health insurance have exploded
3. The insurance companies are seeing record profits
4. One in five in-network claims are denied
5. One in three out-of-network claims are denied
We have to borrow money to subsidize the companies that are the problem.
Americans deserve better; eliminate the ACA!
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BREAKING: Governor @SarahHuckabee is proposing a $70M increase to the massively successful Arkansas school choice program!
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This was one of the hardest-fought and most contentious City Council elections in Scottsdale’s history.
Outside special interests mounted unprecedented interference to keep their grip on City Hall — an effort matched only by their underestimation of our residents, who saw through the agenda and rejected it.
Thank you, Scottsdale. 🏜️
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From the web:
In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams claimed they could beat any man ranked outside the top 200 on the men’s tour.
German player Karsten Braasch, then ranked No. 203, accepted the challenge.
After a night of drinking and smoking with little preparation, Braasch defeated Serena 6-1 and Venus 6-2 in straight sets.
The matches were not competitive. Braasch later said he never needed to use his finest serve.
The Williams sisters are the greatest female athletes of all time. And they barely made Braasch break a sweat.
It wasn't because Braasch was very good. He wasn't.
But as a male, he possesses biological advantages even the best female athletes can't compete against.
That's the very reason we established women's sports to begin with.
To even the playing field.
That shouldn't be controversial. And you shouldn't need a biology degree to understand it.
h/t David J Harris Jr.
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Sure. Easily found, & has been known for decades
I had/have 3 in publics & 1 in private (thx to an ESA). Truly saved our daughter. We love all schools & kids, we celebrate school choice for all - just like our freedoms/choices all over society
Relax Bonnie, be reasonable
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From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Serving our community in the Arizona House has been a great privilege.
While this campaign didn’t end the way we hoped, my gratitude is immeasurable. To every volunteer who knocked a door, every supporter who believed in me, and every neighbor who shared their story, thank you.
Last night, I called Tammy Caputi and Karen Gresham to congratulate them on their victories and wish them well as they prepare to serve our community.
I’m proud of the work we’ve done together, the relationships we’ve built, and the difference we’ve made.
An election may mark the end of a campaign, but it doesn’t mark the end of service to this community.
Thank you, all.
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The list of the cars burned by Republicans, stores looted by Republicans and streets blocked by Republicans after Tuesday’s midterm election losses.
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10 seconds on Google to disprove “didn’t even need them”. 80% of vouchers went to households under $70k. Our household makes multiples above that and feel the budget crunch so I can only imagine how those families feel trying to make ends meet plus better outcomes for their kids.
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This article counts on gullible fools to believe their math - they only count the gross value of ESAs & ignore the offsets
When 70% of ESAs were from $16,000/student public school kids moving to $8,000 ESAs, it SAVED the state & taxpayers huge money
Just be reasonable
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The real question is how we give every child a fair shot, not just the ones whose parents can afford alternatives.
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I send my kids to a private school and mostly pay out of pocket. ESA helps and our family income is below 65K. School choice is not for the rich!
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If your family uses school choice, here's what last night means for you.
Texas has a new governor who wants to end vouchers. But the program is law, and only the Legislature can undo it. Families who just started using it this year still have it.
Democrats won governor races in Iowa, Ohio, and Georgia, and they took Congress. Iowa's new governor wants income limits and audits on ESAs. Most of the winners didn't run on full repeal.
Tennessee went the other way. Their new governor wants scholarships open to every family.
Arizona's school chief race is still too close to call, and ESAs are on the line there too.
In Chicago, the teachers union and its allies spent at least $2.4M on the school board president race. Their candidate lost 49 to 31.
Voters also turned down huge school bonds in Texas and North Dakota. Washington's parents' rights measure is trailing.
So some states will try to shrink choice and others will grow it. Either way, the real fight moves to the legislatures, and lawmakers listen to parents who show up. If choice changed your kid's life, tell your legislator now.
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1. More billionaires are associated with less poverty.
2. Increasing billionaires per capita by ten fold lowers poverty by 43 percentage points.
3. Sweden has more billionaires per 10M people than the U.S. (34 vs 30)
4. Correlation is fairly strong (R-squared of 0.6 for two variable cross-section data)
4. Since the graph is only a correlation, what do you think is the cause?
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