Probably makes the guards lives easier if the kids are distracted

Not just in theory; we’ve seen interest rates used exactly that way several times.

FDR had high enough taxes on the wealthy.

That did not have a lot of Americans in it because American billionaires don’t need to use shady overseas tax shelters; they’re able to keep their money in US accounts and evade the taxes.

That involved both interest rates and tax policy via changes to the R&D credit, so perhaps not an ideal example

Interest rates do indeed control inflation because high rates put people out of work. Its been done before.

No. I think that some of the sites that claim to rank outlet bias intentionally describe center-right content as “left” in order to skew how people view things

The problem is that those areas are in the subtropical dry zone, where water constraints mean we won’t see sustainable large-scale agriculture.

It’s a bit too simplistic; coffee doesn’t tolerate the overnight lows that you get outside the tropics and only grows between 25°N to 30°S. You could in theory grow it indoors with artificial lighting like marijuana, but that’s really expensive.

Yay!

In much of the US, living together and presenting yourself as married over a period of years means you’re actually married.

The big group this impacts is married women — in particular it has a name-matching requirement which will block a large fraction of married women from voting. They’re doing this because women have consistently been more likely to vote for Democrats than men:

This makes it very much worthwhile for Americans to ask their Senators to block this legislation by any means necessary.

The goal here is to keep women from voting: the SAVE act very specifically requires that you

• Prove citizenship
• That you prove that the name on your citizenship document (eg: birth certificate) match your current name

Because women often change name when they get married, they’ll have a mismatch, and need to spend time and money to be able to vote. If the legislation passes, it will block about 20 million Americans from voting. Because of gender disparities in voting, Republicans see this as to their advantage.

Give your Senators a call at 202-224-3121 and ask them to block this change.

This is the United States, so they’re imposing a requirement that somebody not just have a state-issued photo ID, but have a birth certificate or passport which matches their current name. It’s very common for women to change their name when they get married, so the net effect if this passes is to prevent tens of millions of married women from voting.

Republicans want that because women are more likely to vote for Democrats than men.

The key requirement in it requires you to have ID with the same name as proof of citizenship. Because women frequently change their name when they get married, it means that they won’t have matching documents, and won’t be able to vote.

Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote against it.

Gift link so that you don’t need to depend entirely upon archive sites.

The underlying analysis that the article is about is here

Talk with folks around you about the closest one. It makes a difference

We crossed that line years ago

What happened is that the skill requied to manufacture a lower receiver out of metal dropped quite sharply, enabling a large number of people to make weapons without serial numbers

Printing isn’t enough, but it’s a piece of what needs to happen.