Recent content by RocksInMyHead

Out of curiosity, what percentage increase is that, and has anything else in your life changed that might have otherwise affected those numbers? Are you still driving similar distances in a car with similar fuel economy, feeding the same number of people with the same types of food...

To be fair, it's a pretty old sketch, and I wouldn't really expect Eddie Izzard to be all that popular among conservatives to begin with.

No.

The best I can do is this:

Donald Trump's initials (his middle name is John), and also the assigned stock ticker code for Trump Media.

Defending yourself against a ridiculous accusation gives it credence and publicity. Right now, the only people who think this is true are those who would find any excuse to continue to do so. If Ashley Biden released a copy of her diary, a highly personal and private document, those who...

While Dershowitz may still be a registered Democrat (I neither know nor care), he's been shilling for Trump pretty hard for the last few years, so trying to present him as a voice from "the other side" is more than just a bit disingenuous. Yes - IF the defendant files a written and subscribed...

Why should she or President Biden give any credence to baseless accusations completely unsupported by any evidence? Never said it didn't. There's even a PDF copy of it (supposedly) floating around the internet that I'm sure you could find if you wanted to. Spoiler alert: it doesn't include...

Sure, but when you cross that pre-bate threshold, you're still getting hammered with the maximum tax rate. I make about $65,000/year. My effective federal income tax rate is about 10%. In order to maintain that rate under a 20% flat income tax (assuming that FICA taxes aren't bundled with...

Everyone in America does pay taxes - sales tax, gas tax, property tax (even by renters - they just pay indirectly). Not everyone pays income tax, but that's generally because it's deemed too much of a burden on people who make less than a certain amount of money. "Trickle down" economics has...

That would require even higher tax rates. Also, those are state taxes, not federal. I can generally support folding sales tax into income tax - that's also a regressive tax, in that the greater percentage of your income that you spend, the more tax you pay. So, people who spend the majority...

Consider the impact of losing 3% of your income when you're living paycheck to paycheck compared to the impact of losing 3% when you have millions in disposable income. Sure, it's a small enough percentage in this case that it's probably not going to make or break the first person, but it is...

Flat taxes are extraordinarily regressive in that they disproportionately disadvantage lower income taxpayers.

I believe I mentioned that:

Proving the non-existence of something is impossible - that's why the burden of proof always lies with the party making the positive claim. In short, claims made without evidence may be dismissed without evidence. There is no evidence that Ashley Biden wrote such a thing in her diary outside...