Ding Dong.....the US Politics Thread (Part 1)

Only if the bill is eligible to be passed via reconciliation. In practice you only get one per fiscal year, and so any attempt to push infrastructure through this same process would have to come later in the year that it could be classified as the 2022 fiscal year (beginning September) and then leave themselves limited until 2023 to be able to do anything that does not have a filibuster proof majority.

The could also get rid of one of the most absurd rituals in American politics, which is the filibuster in its present form.

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Haha. If only we had a Royal Family to distract us with their foibles. Anyone know where we can rent one?

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Milo is making a comeback!!!

FINALLY!

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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“Mr President Biden, please take good care of yourself…” :lying_face:

Google translate:
Putin, in front of thousands of people at the stadium in Luzhniki, congratulated everyone on the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia.

Coronavirus? No, have not heard

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I’ll believe it when I see it.

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The comments in this thread… :zipper_mouth_face:

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:clap:

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Stockton, a Cali town with similar demographics (black), have been running a UBI program for several years now. Pretty much every analysis of it has demonstrated its benefits

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/04/973653719/california-program-giving-500-no-strings-attached-stipends-pays-off-study-finds

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UBI schemes are a terrible idea, more neo-liberal shrills attempting a progressive facade…

Easy tiger!

Everyone can have their view… just wanted to say that line!

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You’re living in the past.

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Interested to hear why you think that.

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Yes, in the few places they’ve been tried they seem to have been successful. I wonder what the opposition is based on.

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At least in the United States, the past year has been one, giant UBI experiment. Personally, I believe UBI to be inflationary. People will use it to avoid work, which will then drive up the cost of everything. Why? Because it increases demand while decreasing supply (or rather increasing the cost of supply). How? Because companies will have to pay more to attract people to work. Having said that, in a deflationary global economic environment, which is basically where we are, this type of program might be just another tool for combating deflation. It obviously will increase the debt pile, however. Where that ends is an open question, but it’s never ended well in the past.

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