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Argumentum ad populum or baldfaced fact?

_Robert_ wrote:
When my brokerage portfolio first hit the $2M mark, it was like some sort of trigger. I had all these financial tax advisors calling/emailing me about having consultations to reduce my future taxes.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Argument From Popularity Fallacy. The fact that people might want government largess doesn’t make it good them or for an economy.

We embed this fallacy in our national, state, and local government’s various constitutions. I have taught logic. Verbal fallacies, unlike formal fallacies, do not imply false conclusions with n…[Read more]

@ Enco

I asked an AI how much does the average middle-class person pay in Federal Income Tax as a percentage and received this answer:

A middle-class married couple filing jointly might fall into the 12% bracket (taxable income between $23,851 and $96,950) or the 22% bracket (taxable income between $96,951 and $206,700).

Now what would be…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen, If government spent less and every Citizen, regardless of income, were taxed less, Citizens would have more money to both spend on foreign goods or to invest in domestic companies producing goods and services. And Citizens would gain either way. Again, not Trickle-Down, not Trickle-Up, but Big Splash.

But I don’t…[Read more]

I wonder what survivors of 9/11 have to say about all this?

That was one of my first thoughts today when I heard the rambling speech he made.  I also thought about what the family of the WaPo journalist Jamal Khashoggi must be thinking. Of course Trump would not mention that. He does not care about what happened him. Or maybe he really does…[Read more]

The trade deficit is due to rich people not liking to pay taxes:

Taliban suspends chess over gambling concerns.

Why don’t Pentecostals have sex standing up?

Because someone might see them and think they were dancing.

@Enco – Here is some evidence. No, it is not photo-shopped 🙂

I think Wokeism started off with good ideas as a progressive ideology.  It was well intentioned, as were the people that got onboard with it. It aspired to combat all forms of discrimination. But I think (just my opinion) that Jewish concerns have been sidelined because there is a “cultural zeitgeist” (my term) that views Jews as part of the priv…[Read more]

Have a great week!!

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington.

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
― James Madison.

“To announce that…[Read more]

Thanks Robert….I am not very knowledgeable about this area but I did discuss it last week with a engineer, recently returning from this project with a lot of cash!! 🙂

While I am not an electrical engineer, I had a discussion with one recently. Yes, traditional AC power from big turbines have a reserve of kinetic energy from the rotation of their turbines. Their spinning mass can resist any sudden frequency changes for a short time and this gives the grid inertia that stabilizes the frequency and gives control…[Read more]

Say it ain’t so, Greta!!! The Spain/Portugal outage was caused by going 100% renewable energy?

@Simon – He who is without sin shall cast the first stone…

Pope Bob, being a Catholic and with his degree in math, has SIN nailed down. Not sure what he is like with COS and TAN though.

✨ PAPAL BULL OF ABSOLUTION ✨
By the Supreme Pontificate of Pope Bob, Servant of the Servants of God, Vicar of Christ, Keeper of the Keys, and Occasional User of Spreadsheet Macros

To Whom It May Concern (Especially you Reg):

Be it known throughout the heavens, the earth, and all diocesan finance committees that:

The Fronkey Guy
having been…[Read more]

Enco, yes Catholic theology is a carbuncle on the back of reason.

In the grand hermeneutical enterprise of Catholic eschatology, the eschaton emerges as the ultimate telos of salvific history—a culmination wherein temporality is subsumed into the eternal nunc stans of the Divine ipsum esse subsistens. At this cosmological denouement, the resurrect…[Read more]

I agree with Bob. Atheism is practical 🙂

I found it a difficult read as theological word salad makes me despair for humanity 🙂 Such utter nonsense from someone of the same species.