Government Coup

[iris lilies]

Where are you getting these numbers? What percentage of their income did they pay?

This kind of discourse has been going on for years here with these numbers. Do not let facts sway you!

I remember one of the old posters debating tax issues with a poster here, someone who taught tax law at an Ivy. Debate is fine and go forth to do it, but —that exchange was embarrassingly entertaining.

[LDAHL]

I never said the government is your daddy. I said "family member" on purpose. The country is made up of people who have bonded together for the purpose of supporting each other's life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. I take that as a personal responsibility to vote in representatives who will do what they can to facilitate that mission on behalf of all.

I view my relationship to my fellow citizens, as least as far as government is concerned, to be less familial and more contractual than you do.

I think the Founders’ vision and the brilliant, cynical constitutional order they devised was aimed more at preventing government or any faction therein to interfere with individuals enjoyment of life liberty or the pursuit of happiness rather than serve as a source for those things. Hence a federal system of sovereign states, enumerated and separated powers, checks and balances, etc.

But government will always try to seep into new areas, doing things like social engineering through the tax code or dictating education policy through the budget. Rule by executive order or legislating from the bench will always need to be guarded against people wanting to micromanage our pursuit of happiness to their specifications of happiness.

[Tradd]

More tariff whiplash. Threatening 50% duties for the EU. A friend runs a seasonal business selling German Christmas ornaments at a booth at a Christmas market. She has small margins. She said this is going to sink her.

I only have two customers that mostly or wholly import from the EU. I advised them yesterday. One had heard and one hadn't. We don't actually know if it's going to actually happen or not.

[Tybee]

So sorry for your friend--that sounds like a really cool business. Hope she can survive this time.

[bae]

My daughter has been applying for tenure-track positions at universities around the world, as her research fellowship at Cambridge runs out in a year or so, and she already has substantially completed her projects there.

This week, with the attack on Harvard, was the last straw. Harvard and Yale are pretty much the only two universities in the US where positions in her field exist. She had made it to the final round of interviews at both places, but withdrew her applications today and accepted an offer from St. Andrews in Scotland, which is one of the leading institutions in the UK and Europe.

Brain drain. Talented young people are looking elsewhere for employment. Academics at the beginning of their careers seem unwilling to take the risk that their programs or universities here in the US might vanish out from under them, leaving them high-and-dry, killing their careers before they even really get started.

[Tybee]

My daughter has been applying for tenure-track positions at universities around the world, as her research fellowship at Cambridge runs out in a year or so, and she already has substantially completed her projects there.

This week, with the attack on Harvard, was the last straw. Harvard and Yale are pretty much the only two universities in the US where positions in her field exist. She had made it to the final round of interviews at both places, but withdrew her applications today and accepted an offer from St. Andrews in Scotland, which is one of the leading institutions in the UK and Europe.

Brain drain. Talented young people are looking elsewhere for employment. Academics at the beginning of their careers seem unwilling to take the risk that their programs or universities here in the US might vanish out from under them, leaving them high-and-dry, killing their careers before they even really get started.

I was hoping someone would bring this up. This reminds me so much of stories I heard from Holocaust survivors who went to German universities, of what happened during those years. I am astonished by this latest action.

Congratulations to your daughter--what an amazing accomplishment, and what a wonderful life she has ahead of her!!

[Tradd]

Bae, congrats to your daughter!

[iris lilies]

My daughter has been applying for tenure-track positions at universities around the world, as her research fellowship at Cambridge runs out in a year or so, and she already has substantially completed her projects there.

This week, with the attack on Harvard, was the last straw. Harvard and Yale are pretty much the only two universities in the US where positions in her field exist. She had made it to the final round of interviews at both places, but withdrew her applications today and accepted an offer from St. Andrews in Scotland, which is one of the leading institutions in the UK and Europe.

Brain drain. Talented young people are looking elsewhere for employment. Academics at the beginning of their careers seem unwilling to take the risk that their programs or universities here in the US might vanish out from under them, leaving them high-and-dry, killing their careers before they even really get started.

You reported earlier that your daughter claimed she would never live in the United States again so this recent withdrawal is a surprise. But Saint Andrews is cool.Scotland, doncha know.

Decades ago I stayed in a student dorm there, visiting an American friend who was doing a history course there. I also visited the aulde links there, the mother of golf courses.

[Tybee]

These are nice:
3 bedroom detached house for sale in South Street, St Andrews, KY16
3 bedroom cottage for sale in Ranza Cottage, Brownhills, St. Andrews, KY16
6 bedroom detached house for sale in Kennedy Gardens, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16

[catherine]

We loved St. Andrews when we visited in 2007. I enjoyed the town. The links were more interesting to the rest of the family.

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