Recent content by forkup

Your graph shows that wages stagnated 8 years, AFTER immigration reform happened. One event does NOT corrolate witht the time frame of the other. So you need to establish that corrolation with more than your feelings. If we printed money.before and during Covid and inflation went rampant after...

No "we" aren't. You are asserting a pattern exists, and claiming that suggesting that such a pattern needs to be established before it's claimed to be true is somehow an ureasonable demand. While at the same time claiming that me establishing a pattern of wages not keeping up with inflation...

The "political infrastructure" in Venezuela was a dictatorship. Dictatorships are usually pretty iffy about self government by "the people."

I see. First, you put your foot in your mouth claiming I said something when I said the exact opposite. Then you do it again by claiming what I said is irrelevant to your OP when it's actually a direct answer to it. So now you want to move the goalpost. Here's an observation. Giving a detailed...

Those numbers are the income tax rates in 68. Numbers I Inserted as a direct answer to your premise. 36 percent for the top 50, 70 percent for the top 10, 77 percent for the top 1. See how that goes?

I'm not the one who's thinks 36 is a.larger number than 77. But sure pretend you can't click amd read.

Check the tax rates in the links provided. Pretty sure that 77 percent is higher than 36 percent.

36,70.76, respectively. Based on the tax rates in the 60th's, the time when people could feed and house their family on a single income. Historical Federal Individual Income Tax Rates & Brackets, 1862-2021 Before Reagan convinced the Republican party that lower taxes for the higher incomes...

I'm confused. When I used Covid as an example it wasn't fine for you. To you it invalidated the entire analogy. This despite the mechanisms being described. Yet now you're saying that you don't need to make a clear correlation yourself. Don't you think the "ranking" of the factors is important...

Yes it does. On the other hand, finding possible reasons for the outcome doesn't change the fact, that it has had that outcome. An outcome that puts your hypothesis that deporting illegals will have a meaningfull impact on real wages in doubt. Sure, here's the thing though. None of the...

Standing up in protest and being arrested for it. Typical N-Korea BS, and now apparently a justified response according to righties in Trump's US. And no that shouldn't be a typical response

My goal is to have a good faith argument in a place were no one I've encountered ever does so. This has made me vigilant to the point of cynisism. I will say now that so far in the course of this conversation you are.comimg closer to that good faith conversation then anyone on the right at any...

What you did wasn't a steelman. It was an argument you heard cited back bereft of any context or meaning. In other words a strawman. Besides it being irrelevant to the particular discussion. So I let it go. The question is not what employers can do. It's about what the policies themselves do...

Number 4 isn’t really relevant to your stated criterion, so let’s set that aside. I also want to point out that you’ve proposed two related but distinct policies, and they may have different effects relative to your criterion: -Deporting undocumented immigrants -Restricting legal immigration...

I felt it did need to be spelled out, mainly because it was the one thing, besides vagueness, which is easily rectified, that would make your criterion meaningless. Your criterion has several flaws but none that would make the discussion meaningless. This one did. So I spelled it out. Yes for...