I always feel bad for Presidents when they do this. It has zero effect on the supply at a high level or the cost at the pump. The reason they do it is so the news covers the Administration doing something and people see that coverage. The fact of the matter is that the President cannot meaningfully act in a manner that lowers the price of gas to consumers.
States have long been called “laboratories of democracy” for exactly this reason. I’d actually argue that the current climate calcifies the process of policy experimentation in states and among them.
The constitutionality of this tax will come down to how the Roberts Court wants to interpret and apply the 200-year old concept first issued in an opinion during the Marshall Court – the power to tax is the power to destroy. The government cannot use its authority to levy taxes in a manner which significantly encroaches on the exercise of an enumerated right. I like CA’s idea here, but it’s all going to come down to implementation.
This is the fundamental problem with gun regulation at the state level – they can be effectively abrogated by neighboring states with more lax regulation. FiveThirtyEight did a piece on this a while ago. In that article they show how strict gun laws in Illinois, California, and Maryland are defeated by guns flowing in from the surrounding states with more lax laws. The vast majority of gun crime is committed with guns which are illegally possessed, but were initially obtained through legal means.
You’re getting shit because rape is an extremely serious act and diluting the severity of it by describing other violations with its language is not acceptable to most people.
How hard would it have been to say “betrayal of trust” or “violation of personal property and control over what she puts in her body?”
When you get lazy with your language we all suffer. Be better.
I could not agree more. The number of people in here who are demanding that everyone who uses an OS understand it completely is absolutely ridiculous. I’d love to sit down and watch these people rebuild a lawnmower engine or service the compressor on their refrigerator. Hell, a shocking number of people I meet don’t know how to cook for themselves and they’re going to demand that end users be able to chroot and save a nonbootable system? Get out of here.
Lemmy: “Don’t fall victim to capitalism and the pressure to squeeze value and production out of every instant of your lives. Pursue activities you are passionate about and consume media that you like. Enjoyment is more than sufficient as an end goal.”
The issue is that billionaire owners use tax money to build a new 500 millions stadium and then keep the profit. Fuck that, the government should take the revenue in proportion to what they paid in.
100%
I’m so proud of the voters of San Diego telling the Chargers to fuck off.
Wikis are not really a defense against this issue, they are by nature a secondary or (occasionally by policy) a tertiary source of information. Once the source they are recording dies so does the value of that page on the wiki. From the OP:
54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link in their “References” section that points to a page that no longer exists.
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