I’ve tried many times and many different ways to explain my mild antipathy for Apple software and products - but I think I’ve finally come up with an analogy that accurately illustrates my complaints.
Imagine that you’re a boss trying to hire someone to fill a particular job description. You end up with three applicants:
Candidate #1 [...]
America already no longer produces much of anything, so at the moment all we really have is the ability to tax labor.
Maybe I’m a little confused on some of the statistics, and their general meaning - but:
The US has one of the highest GDPs in the world - typically second only to the European Union [...]
Picking through my second-degree sources (i.e. Wikipedia), I find information which breaks down the estimates into three types:
Measuring immigration via income tax forms (1040, 1099, or under the table) isn’t mentioned, nor would I expect it to be, given that it’s undoubtedly a gross underestimation, and would be difficult to impossible to correct.
Residual Method - [...]
(this is part of an email debate I had with several friends)
According to the best estimates of folks who are paid to do these things (instead of ball-parking based on gut instinct, like we were doing), the approximate number of illegal immigrants (of whatever type) is approximately 12-15 million. This is substantially less than our [...]
A friend of mine asked:
What are the short- and long-term economic benefits and costs associated with our current high federal government budget deficits? Do you think the economic benefits outweigh the economic costs, or not? Why? If we wished to reduce the budget deficit then how would you advocate that be accomplished?
The short term benefits [...]