It's finally happened!

[Samm]

@Borgia_dude

@Samm

@Borgia_dude

@Samm

Sort of like public education. We keep pumping taxpayer money at ever increasing rates into our schools, yet the student performance on the world stage keeps slipping. Go figure.

As an aside, our suburban schools do just fine on the world stage.

Some perhaps, but nowhere near all.

Of course. On average though our suburban public schools perform fairly well against the world.

But it is cherry picking the population.

It is the exact opposite of cherry picking, it is generalization.

[Borgia_dude]

@Samm

@Borgia_dude

@Samm

@Borgia_dude

@Samm

Sort of like public education. We keep pumping taxpayer money at ever increasing rates into our schools, yet the student performance on the world stage keeps slipping. Go figure.

As an aside, our suburban schools do just fine on the world stage.

Some perhaps, but nowhere near all.

Of course. On average though our suburban public schools perform fairly well against the world.

But it is cherry picking the population.

It is the exact opposite of cherry picking, it is generalization.

No, it is cherry picking as you choose a subset of the total high school population to discuss results. My point was I was admitting that I was cherry picking the suburban schools when I said their results were comparable to oversea. Note that it is not 1:1 since we aren’t comparing to suburban schools overseas.

And it is a generalization in that not all suburban schools do well. But on average they do, which is implied.

[Konssurvative1]

Good God Y’all…

[Samm]

That is some mighty convoluted thinking there boy.

[Borgia_dude]

@Samm

That is some mighty convoluted thinking there boy.

You didn’t understand my definition or practice of cherry picking, son?

[carpe_diem]

The Original Socialist is Baaaack!

Welcome back Bernie Sanders. lol.

[fallenturtle]

@Oldandtired

Than you better make sure they also have the same tax deduction as 1936 to 1980 because they never had to really pay 70%.
The one thing people seem to forget is that if you raise the tax’s on the middle class they have no where to go so they pay the tax’s. If you raise the tax’s to a point where the rich save more money by moving than they will go to where ever they can get a better deal.

If taxes are so high that people start leaving, you can lower taxes.

[fallenturtle]

@carpe_diem

I wonder if the Democratic Socialists realize that Venezuela doesn’t have
a middle class?

Venezuela has a middle class.
Also, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/08/21/no-venezuela-doesnt-prove-that-socialism-will-bring-about-a-zombie-apocalypse

[fallenturtle]

@WildRose

Right. Now what was their effective rate?

Bounced around mostly between 35% and 45%.

[carpe_diem]

The King of Socialism Bernie Sander is in the 2020 race now for President. Maybe now the Dems will seem more moderate, because Bernie is so Radically to the far left?

The Washingtonpost is definitely a trustworthy news source for liberal lies.

[fallenturtle]

I would have thought the King of Socialism would be someone a lot more socialist that Bernie Sanders who is pretty much a Social Democrat. I’m pretty sure that the King or Queen of Socialism would be someone in the US Socialist Party and not the Democratic Party.

The Washington Post is a perfectly fine newspaper and they, like most mainstream news sources, print corrections and retractions that needed… but that’s moot because this is an opinion piece and not a news article.

That said, did you read it? Where do you think the piece is lying?

[LucyLou]

@fallenturtle

I would have thought the King of Socialism would be someone a lot more socialist that Bernie Sanders who is pretty much a Social Democrat. I’m pretty sure that the King or Queen of Socialism would be someone in the US Socialist Party and not the Democratic Party.

The Washington Post is a perfectly fine newspaper and they, like most mainstream news sources, print corrections and retractions that needed… but that’s moot because this is an opinion piece and not a news article.

That said, did you read it? Where do you think the piece is lying?

To be honest, phony baloney Bernie isn’t in the Democratic Party either.

[Borgia_dude]

@fallenturtle

The Washington Post is a perfectly fine newspaper and they, like most mainstream news sources, print corrections and retractions that needed… but that’s moot because this is an opinion piece and not a news article.

That said, did you read it? Where do you think the piece is lying?

You expect a discussion with meaningful exchanges from carpe?

[carpe_diem]

I’m confused? Who is more of the King of Socialism that Bernie Sanders? lol.

[WildRose]

The link shows Canadians come to the US and other countries for care when they can afford to which was my point.

[WildRose]

Then why was he the number two finisher last time around and is coming out strong again already this year?

[WildRose]

Not everyone. There’s going to be a race to the hard left this time around and Bernie could well be left standing somewhere in the middle.

[Phaedrus]

In 2017, more than 1.4 million Americans sought health care in a variety of countries around the world.

Granted these statistics are from different years (2014 vs. 2017). But in 2014, 1 in 675 Canadians chose to seek medical care outside Canada (not necessarily the U.S.), for a variety of reasons. Compare that with the statistic above, in which 1.4M / 326M = 0.4%, or 1 in 232 Americans sought health care outside the U.S.

It’s your chosen metric, and apparently shows that Canadians prefer their “socialized” medicine to Americans’ demonstrated preference for U.S. healthcare by almost 3 to 1.

[carpe_diem]

I think that AOCortez wants America to be like Venezuela.

She might think like it would be good to do that and stuff,
like Socialism and stuff.

[carpe_diem]

Bernie in the middle? No way!