- February 22, 2017
David Burress
Almost everyone knows in their heart that Medicare For All would be far better than what we have. (For starters it would claw back some 3% of GDP spent on insurance overhead and provider costs of dealing with complex insurance policies.) But how would the shift-over work?
Mainly, you need to expand the payroll tax by ...
- February 20, 2017
David Burress
I think unions should adopt a long-term legal strategy attacking “right to work” laws as unconstitutional takings.
First we need to place some learned articles in law journals, then start a litigation strategy. In particular, so-called right-to-work laws allow workers who refuse to join a union and refuse to pay agency fees to nevertheless demand that ...
- February 17, 2017
David Burress
If I were a TV host interviewing a politician, I’d have running totals at the bottom of the screen, giving numbers of: evasions; mainly truthful straight answers; straight answers that were misleading or direct lies or falsehoods; and evasive lies not responsive to a question.
A shrewd interviewer could make those calls as the conversation progresses, ...
- February 16, 2017
David Burress
The slogan “all lives matter” was popularized by folks who deep down actually believe the dead opposite, which is typical of right-wing propaganda. They love to appropriate left wing egalitarian rhetoric, twisted with an underlying right wing antiegalitarian intent.
However, imagine a world where all lives really did matter. Would that be a better world than ...
