My mom left me a home packed to the gills. She was the most empathetic person I ever knew, to the point of paralysis. She purchased things to be gifts for family, to show she had value. So yes, if someone is hoarding to try and have value, and you tell them they have zero value, they will get defensive. It might be you that is controlling and lacking empathy. And I don't think it's obsessive control they have but rather obsessive lack of control so they purchase these things as protection/armor.
If you had empathy, you would see that attacking their hoarding is both devaluing them and trying to remove what they perceive as safety so yeah, they are going to respond as such. If I pushed hard for you to give away your bank account and that you are crazy for having it you would probably push back in the same way. Maybe approach from empathy instead of judgement and you'd get a better response.
We have socialized healthcare in the USA, we just deliver it at the emergency room, the worst possible place. The more we get people to realize that we already have this the more we can reduce the resistance to expanding it in a sane way. America 100% has socialized medicine. Go to the emergency room and you will be treated.
Simple. If your contracted out work employs more than XYZ number of employees then those contractors must provide benefits/meet employment requirements/etc on the same level as a company with the (aggregate of all contract providers headcount for the contracted service type) employee headcount.
Not an economist, what type of impact does the 2% increase in demand that you demonstrated do to pricing in an inelastic constrained market?
Also, most of the remaining 11.3 million undocumented still occupy housing. So out of 340 million Americans 35% don't own property leaving around 119 million non-home owners. With 8.3 million undocumented not owning homes per your numbers, undocumented are adding approx. 7% to the needed rental market. Again, what does that increased demand do to housing pricing in a relatively inelastic constrained market? I'm personally for more open borders but I'm also for being honest about what that means including increased housing stocks.
What is the prison work program? Does the prison 'offer out' forced inmate labor? Does the prison hire electricians or used unlicensed forced labour from inmates? Would the prison be able affordable to run if it didn't use forced labor and therefore needs to stay full of free labour to be able to stay operating (ie if the population shrinks you don't have enough free labor to keep the place running 'profitably' and would need to put more funds into running it (you gotta grab a wide net to make sure you catch enough electricians, HVAC guys, pipefitters, etc)? Are the commissary items purchased from special, overpriced 'prison commissary' distribution systems with special ties or from normal vendors? Who runs the phone system, is it a profit center? Who runs the prison 'electronic communication' system and is it a profit center?
Except they also get their information on other countries through highly politicized and charged news stories yet those can't compete with how f'd up America's police stories are. But go ahead say it's the news accounts and not the cops behaviors that are the problem. If only the news wouldn't report on it things would be good.
I have jank government insurance and this is not true. When I got out of prison and had no insurance I went to the city's clinics. Wait times have never been an issue (at most was two weeks for specialist). The doctors in the clinic were also friggin amazing doctors/people. I had a ton of shame around getting out of prison, some much shame about needing to get tests ran for HIV/Hep from being in prison but they were so good about it all (all came out negative so woohoo).
Now dentists...when we had money we went to a family friend. He still totally f'd us and did unnecessary work. It's only now that I have a cash only country dentist that I trust my dentist again. Crazy part is the cash only dentist ends up being cheaper than my previous copay/premiums insurance dentists.
My experience some people with weak game settled with who they thought would take them but aren't 100% happy they did and will jump at expanded opportunity. If I want a Porsche and buy a Toyota it doesn't stop me from wanting a Porsche. If I have a Porsche I get over it and I want a Toyota for my daily vehicle.
You can get a shot for refusing to work. This can impact good time and will impact your points. Higher points mean you get sent to a higher security (which ironically means less secure/safe for the inmate) facility.
Because of the Police's past and ongoing actions and behaviors. But let's make it out that those people that have become jaded regarding the Police are the ones acting in bad faith, versus, you know, the people with authority whose own actions are the cause of 'needing to make improvements' which in the current discussion is a reduction a euphemism for 'the Police stealing people's property'.
As someone whose grandfather was fighting in the Pacific, looking back sure seems easy to judge but there are no guarantees and in the horror that was WWII you don't really take risks 'because'. You ensure victory. My grandfather was forced to call in flamethrowers on other human beings that would not come out of tunnels. He never forgave himself for that. Was he a monster? Should he have told his supperiors to stall out their plans, maybe wait the guys out instead? He was part of the occupation and saw the damage the bombs did first hand, helped cleanup the damage, but he never doubted the need to end the war or the way it was done. But glad you looking back figured out a better way by volunteering to let my grandfather 'bottle them up'.
How many would be civilians who were drafted to be soldiers are you willing to sacrifice so that you don't kill 'civilians'? If you are talking professional armies it is one argument, but when you are talking civilians that have been dragged into a conflict their nation did not start are they 100% not-civilian simply because of circumstance? Being a drafted non-aggressor army should also be part of the consideration in my mind.
Edit: To clarify, the court interprets this statute as baring rehabilitation considerations in Federal prison. A Federal Prison sentence has zero intention of being rehabilitative, by statute and Congressional intent:
Title 18 U.S. Code § 3582 - Imposition of a sentence of imprisonment
(a)Factors To Be Considered in Imposing a Term of Imprisonment.—
The court, in determining whether to impose a term of imprisonment, and, if a term of imprisonment is to be imposed, in determining the length of the term, shall consider the factors set forth in section 3553(a) to the extent that they are applicable, recognizing that imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction and rehabilitation.
Don't forget the per minute charge to use kiosk computers to send electronic communication with family, or the pay to use phone app for family members to get those same communications.
Or that you have to buy any medications sold in commissary from there and won't be given them at medical (which costs $5 a visit when you don't make $5 a month) like aspirin at the for profit commissary that buys from jacked up 'prison commissary' distributors and has a way shorter than what you buy in the store expiration date. Keep in mind you are not allowed to share 'medication' and that having expired 'medication' in your locker can be a shot (writeup, potential loss of good time, potential to have your security points increased and shipped to a higher security(i.e. less safe) prison).
Hot take: Community policing should be separate from warrant enforcement. A huge part of police's 'fear' is from not knowing who in any interaction is at risk of being incarcerated for 20 years and has an outstanding warrant and might therefor do whatever it takes to avoid that.
Community policing should be about community policing and needs to be de-escalated. Warrant enforcement should be warrant enforcement. This would make police less fearful and less justified in their hostility.
Complexity left to right may have gone down, but top to bottom has gone up. In a DAW people add way more tracks than ever and add all kinds of detail/texture/layers the weren't possible before so yeah, people search out the new and novel to experiment/have fun with. That happens all the time in music. No one used distorted electric guitars in music then all of the sudden music was over saturated in it. Just because you might not understand/recognize the current complexity doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I too agree that music was ruined once loud orchestra's were formed. The only good music was chamber music. Orchestras anonymized the musician and were basically the end of musicianship.
Now do the Government and tech companies bypassing the right to privacy by 'purchasing' our data. If the Government asking to take something down is a violation of our rights the government asking for private information is a violation of our rights.
Should we call all grocery stores 'government subsidized food stores' since American AG receives a huge amount of government subsidies? Gas stations 'government subsidized gas stations' or maybe 'government owned' since a large amount of US oilfields are on US government owned land via leases? Should anything that is government subsidized should have some pejorative prefix added to it or just free education?
Prop 13s original beneficiaries were pre-boomer. It was sold as a means to allow grandma to stay in her home as property values skyrocketed around her and rising property taxes were actually pushing (pre-boomer) people out of their longtime homes.
Did Musk originally go to Roscosmos to license their tech and it was only after the laughed him out of the door that SpaceX pursued it's current strategy? His original plan was literally to be dependent on Russia's Soyuz.
Got the email, clicked the link and canceled. That's just too high for what you get and how they treat content creators and stress Google puts them through demonetizing and then requiring people go through a byzantine process. If I'm paying to support creators having those very same people randomly lose their income stream and go through a ton of stress doesn't exactly make me feel good about paying.
But do 40% of households not file tax returns, because that is what we are talking about here, and I'm pretty sure a large portion of that 40% do file because they get refunds/rebates, and I'm pretty sure a large portion of that portion use a service because they can get their refund/rebate quicker (though as a loan at payday loan advance rates).
Many of the lower income folks I know are too nervous/not comfortable with their own ability to file their own taxes and use tax preparer services. Some also do this in the hopes of getting their return quicker, so they not only pay to file but then get hit with the equivalent of a payday loan on their return.