"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
With the tracking tool the NYT had available, I was tracking the time each candidate got, and I noticed that after Gabbard criticized the Times' and CNNs' treatment of her, she stayed at the very bottom--with only 4 minutes of speaking time vs. up to 15 minutes for Warren. I was wondering if that was payback, but then they did come around to asking her more questions at the end.
ETA: the final speaking time for all candidates. Only Steyer got less time than Gabbard.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...gtype=Homepage
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I thought a lot of the discussion was around how much government funding will expand in areas like health care, education, and a little on guaranteed income. And then how believable the ways to pay for those things seemed. You could sort of pick you flavor. I think fairly managing a wealth tax is likely to follow the same course of failure as it has in Europe. And I'm equally skeptical of a value added tax. I didn't hear much about climate change or managing national debt.
That seems to be the case, and I think it takes a lot of courage to appear as a moderate in that group.
And why did Harris make such a big issue of banishing Trump from Twitter?
I thought that was odd too, with such limited time to get a message across it seems she'd have something tangible to discuss, or perhaps not.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
1) it will raise your taxes taken out of your paycheck, but you won't have to pay premiums which are also taken out of your paycheck
2) you won't have to worry about not having health coverage, finding out your insurance doesn't pay for that (sometimes as a surprise), not being able to see a specialist, or going broke due to healthcare expenses (even if you have insurance), staying at a job purely for the healthcare, losing a job and losing healthcare (not that there aren't other non-healthcare concerns in that circumstance)
gee, let me think about it.
Trees don't grow on money
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