The Remnant Czar

Jonah returns to the classic Ruminant format for the end of the week, which turned ...

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Jonah returns to the classic Ruminant format for the end of the week, which turned out to be a rather newsy, strange sequence of days. From Jeffrey Toobin’s seminal moment (not the one you’re thinking of), to Kamala Harris’ Skeletor-like tactic for dodging questions, all the way to a story about taxation that Jonah thinks has more going on in it than most people think (it may even break “one of the most sacred compacts of government”), this episode brings us reeling back through the mists of time all the way to… last summer, when Jonah was doing this every Friday.

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    The Stray Goose

    I'm not so sure about Mr. Goldberg's comments about how racists wouldn't survive in a free market. I think one sign that there is bigotry present is if people act in ways that are against their economic interests. We see that today to some extent.

    On the other side, if a couple from Albania wants to open an Albanian food restaurant, have menus in only Albanian and serve only Albanian customers, have at it. Just don't come to me with complaints (or demands for government intervention) when the restaurant fails.

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    The Stray Goose

    I heard that French Toast House coffee sucks.

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    The Stray Goose

    19:00 - We have a monopoly of the truth. And if you don't affirmatively side with us, the you are objectively on the wrong side.

    - Sounds like the lefties here on TD comments section!

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    The Stray Goose

    11:00 - 'Women may undress for men, but they dress for other women.'

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    The Bell Tower

    Jonah is much too easy on the stupidity of this envy politics. Just like dogs in a dog park all must fight over a single stick when hundreds of other sticks lie within snout range, so humans feel the desperate need to have what their fellow humans have rather than toil for their own. Instead, they call that industriousness greed.

    This isn’t learned, it’s engrained the way not going to the bathroom where you sleep is engrained. Politicians like Warren and Sanders almost certainly understand this instinct and they manipulate it for their advantage. The underlying assumption - that money seized through taxation will somehow go to the poor or struggling - is the central fallacy.

    The battle here is not poor people vs rich people. It’s one group of rich people (government) using the ignorant rancor of the masses to steal money from another group of rich people (wealthy taxpayers). They’ll make us all poor in pursuit of their ridiculous power.

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  6. Debra Zinik

    My first grandson was born on June 9, 2017 and my father died 4 days later on 6/13. I lit my Yorzite candle and listened to your podcast.

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  7. El Peligroso

    Right on. I work for a business that provides a service in exchange for...wait for it...money. It would be regrettable if our competitors in the local meatpacking industry made a policy to not do business with homosexuals, Mexicans, Native Americans, Biden-buddys, Trumpers, etc. But boy howdy that’d be good for our bottom line! As far as the 1% goes (with the exception of the occasional feckless heir or heiress) it seems that most people don’t understand how much soul-sucking work and ruthless devotion to the accumulation of wealth it takes to become a billionaire. I don’t wanna be Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates but I want that money and I want it NOW!!!! ;-)

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  8. Richard Fulmer

    Trade used to mean the literal exchange of one good or service for another good or service. Today, it more often means the exchange of goods or services for paper IOUs that we call “money.” In a free market, money is documentary proof that the bearer has provided goods or services to others.

    In other words, people with money in their pockets have benefitted others but have not yet received anything in exchange. The idea that such people “owe” society or should “give back” to society is exactly backwards. They don’t owe, they are owed.

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    The Bell Tower

    Not only are you a billion percent accurate about this mask nonsense, but these are the people that merely a year ago were bellyaching about the state mandating to businesses that they require masks. Then, I had sympathy for their argument that the state has no power to force business to comply.

    Now? What’s their philosophical position? I don’t wanna wear a mask? Shop elsewhere then.

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    BWG

    Jonah, congrats to your daughter. Been said a million times, but it really is a whole new phase of her life, and of her parents’ lives. It’s like walking through a doorway. So condolences to you and the fair Jessica, but take solace in the realization that you’ve been successful parents, to this point at least! Also condolences on your father’s passing 16 yr ago. Sounds like you were close. That’s a great thing, and maybe somewhat rare.
    Generally agree with your take on the wealthy and taxes, and the ProPublica misinformation. However, I would say that whenever you threaten tax incentives you’ll get howls from ALL the wealthy, not just those on the left.

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