Kamala Wants Price Controls on Groceries, Venezuelan-Style

[Slade3200]

Anytime the federal government engages in something outside it's prescribed scope: YES...it is BAD POLICY.

Was the civil rights act a bad policy?

 

[Slade3200]

YES

And when Bush did it and when everyone else does it.

It always looks and feels good up front....but the unitended consequences are worse.

Even Social Security (something that was needed AT THE TIME) is a bad long term idea.....or it might be better to say there are better ideas IMO).

What idea do you like better than social security?

 

[Lisa558]

What are you arguing ?

I am saying it would be wrong of her to do this. She could do it, but it would disenfanchise the choices of voters in states.

The goal of the constitution was to NOT HOMOGONIZE the nation.

Technically, it is unconstitutional.....but since when does that matter anymore ?

Same thing with abortion. It’s up to the states.

 

[Lisa558]

Certain protections come from the feds and apply to all states which is why we don’t see segregation in some states and not in others

Segregating blacks and whites would be against the equal protection clause, so doing so would be unconstituional.

A business deciding to charge x dollars has nothing to do with the Constitution, so the government has no right to butt iin.

(Democrats have no regard or understanding of the Constitution. They just think the government should do what “feels right”.)

 

[Lisa558]

Was the civil rights act a bad policy?

Nope. That’s enforcing the Constitution.

Honest question: have you ever even READ the Constitution? Your grasp of it is very poor.

 

[Lisa558]

What idea do you like better than social security?

I would like a mix of options that allow for more individual control. While the government would still mandate the withholding (since so many Americans are irresponsible and would not save on their own), but the person has a list of mutual funds from which to choose.

These funds would be balanced fund (some stocks; some bonds) or broad-based index funds (good diversification) or straight bond funds to allow for decent growth with a conservative approach. I for example would just go with a broad-based index fund (75%) and a bond fund (25%). I would have been MUCH better off.

For the purposes of this discussion, I just did a calculation and determined that over 40 years, with an average annual return of 9%, I would have accumulated $1,200,000. Using the annuity calculator, i would then have bought an annuity at age 66, and it would pay out more than $7,000 per month. For comparison, my SS payment is just under $3000 a month now.

What’s wrong with this approach?

 

[HikerGuy83]

What idea do you like better than social security?

In 2000, Sylvester Schieber published a book entitled Social Security: The Real Deal. Mostly it is a history, but it has several reccommendations.

I like the idea of a personalized account that federal government cannot borrow from. They still run the program, but it is truly a retirement account.

Some argue it was not intended to be that....which is pure garbage.

Don't ask me other questions on this.

It is derailing the thread.

 

[Slade3200]

Segregating blacks and whites would be against the equal protection clause, so doing so would be unconstituional.

A business deciding to charge x dollars has nothing to do with the Constitution, so the government has no right to butt iin.

(Democrats have no regard or understanding of the Constitution. They just think the government should do what “feels right”.)

Yet segregation lasted in our country in many states nearly a hundred years following the equal protection clause. Gays were not equally protected until recently. These were conservative agendas acting against your 14th amendment protections.

To address your fiscal point… what are your thoughts about anti-trust laws. Constitutional or no?

 

[Slade3200]

Nope. That’s enforcing the Constitution.

Honest question: have you ever even READ the Constitution? Your grasp of it is very poor.

I have read the constitution. I don’t think you have a clue about my grasp of it. The 14th was written in the 1800s. Do you think it solved our discrimination issues?

 

[Slade3200]

I would like a mix of options that allow for more individual control. While the government would still mandate the withholding (since so many Americans are irresponsible and would not save on their own), but the person has a list of mutual funds from which to choose.

These funds would be balanced fund (some stocks; some bonds) or broad-based index funds (good diversification) or straight bond funds to allow for decent growth with a conservative approach. I for example would just go with a broad-based index fund (75%) and a bond fund (25%). I would have been MUCH better off.

For the purposes of this discussion, I just did a calculation and determined that over 40 years, with an average annual return of 9%, I would have accumulated $1,200,000. Using the annuity calculator, i would then have bought an annuity at age 66, and it would pay out more than $7,000 per month. For comparison, my SS payment is just under $3000 a month now.

What’s wrong with this approach?

I have no issues with that