Recent content by jcfranks

Exactly. Did Apple's boom make society poorer? Did Microsoft's innovations make society poorer? Did the oil boom make society poorer? Yeah, sure, these things made some people über-wealthy (and some have abused that wealth), but they generally increased the wealth of society. Will anyone...

I don't think the issue this thread is protesting is income inequality so much as wealth inequality, which is an entirely different, if related, issue. Raising income tax doesn't address wealth inequality AT ALL. Why? Because the "1%" generally don't receive a vast amount of what we define as...

While I think the idea of 'hate crimes' is ridiculous, I wouldn't go even vaguely this far. As far as I'm concerned, racial hatred isn't internally worse than any other kind of hatred; it doesn't deserve it's own category with more strict punishment. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Correlation /= causation. I can't believe I actually have to come in here and make that statement. Unless they polled the convicts to see what their party affiliation is, this study proves nothing about party affiliation being linked to corruption. Not even including that it obviously doesn't...

This is such an excellent point that I don't even know what to say. Kudos. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk