Just Bernie Sanders Can Restore Progressive Tax Rate?

Bernie Sanders won the Iowa democrat primary and faces a gaggle of rivals in New Hampshire. Sanders has a plain winning edge though; he is the only trustworthy Democrat who would actually restore progressive taxes on the rich.

When President Obama let the Bush II tax cuts become law Senator Sanders was the sole dissenting vote and voice. The reset all went along with the tax cuts and after the fact wish for a progressive tax rate. Mayor Buttigeig is the obvious entry of the British aristocrats and Oxford to lead the Democrat farther into entrhalldom by the rich and aristocrats so taxes can be cut further.

President Trump plans to balance the budget by cutting the social safety net and Medicare in addition to exploiting the ecosphere for dirty profits for the rich. Bernie Sanders probably has no gimmicks-just progressive taxes, so he may be the only realistic Democrat.   

Socialism isn't good and neither is the homo ageneda of godless Democrats. Sanders though may be the adult in the room. It seems like a race to destruction by socialists, godless atheism and the rich with their aristocratic Brit Butties versus President Trump who is good for working class jobs except he also helps concentrate wealth and trashes the ecosphere. Maybe Sanders and that late entry Democrat billionaire should run as a team and get rid of fossil fuel cars, restore green wilderness and build a network of Musk emg transport infrastructure instead of old style smoking technology.

Perhaps Sanders could get the progressive tax rate restored to a fair level in a one-term Presidency followed by a real ecological economist Republic with spiritual moral fiber.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-to-propose-4-8-trillion-budget-with-big-safety-net-cuts-11581274525

Medicare plan B- the one that pays for doctors and misc. costs about $200 monthly if the elderly want that. Not everyone retired gets more than $1500 monthly so the cost is very steep for the poor. Those receiving the minimum retirement benefit after buying food probably need to pay half of their remaining income for plan B ($600s.s. - $200(food) - $200(plan B) = $200 for everything else). 

If an individual expecting the minimum social security income waits beyond age 65 to sign up for plan B (even if full retirement age is 66), the government and a permanent penalty to the cost of plan B. The penalty evidently is progressive and increases if an individual waits to sign up because if they wait the social security income increases annually until age 70. Waiting is a good idea for those anticipating the minimum, except for the penalty for not signing up for a plan B program they probably can't afford until retirement.

I wonder why the most poor are charged as much as the prosperous for basic medical service. I suppose I can answer that question myself; politicians and the prosperous make the laws and they are generally interested in helping themselves the most while blaming the very poor for existing at soaking up government tax dollars. Thus President Trump in seeking to form a budget looks to cutting services for the poor since they are the most powerless political element in the nation.



The Continuity of Self

The structure of an individual remains largely set before birth and continues through unto death. Human structures are made to change through growth and life unto death, and change is part of the structure. Yet entangled particles make up material forms, and though the individual particles may change the energy that makes the particles and the form of a structure remain the same.

There is water behind a dam. One may jog past a dam every day and admire the wonderful reservoir and sparkling blue lake water, and know that the water is different each day, yet the same form for the lake itself remains. Platonic forms have relevance in the actual quantum structures of things in a way with entangled particles existing in forms. Actualized forms remain until their time is passed.

 Individuals can remember their earliest years- memories persist of being age 3 or 4, and one knows oneself that one's self is the same knower of self that always was (in most people); one is just at a different space-time place on one's wordline of experience and existence. If brainwashed sufficiently one can have false ideas of self I suppose, and if weak willed enough can believe they change who they are as quickly as the weather. with no continuity in who they were before. In the math question of how long did it take for the car-self to travel from point A to point Z at the speed of life they answer; 'the car self was never itself having changed at every point on the way and is not-self at point Z and all other points where it never was.

Maybe it would be reasonable to compare the process of being oneself and aging to the experience of making a journey with one’s own legs or oars and arms a certain distance, where one can recall the past few miles and reflects that it is easier going now, with fewer waves or clouds of insects hovering about, than it was then an hour or two ago. Then when a year passes one can remember that journey and how tough though enjoyable it was, and wish perhaps that once again they were on that journey, or a similar one ahead. One tends not to think- “I am not now who I was then”. One knows that one accumulates experience and goes through new situations. One is the same self yet changed with additional knowledge, living in the present instead of the past. 

Priesthood of Believers vs Pastor-Priests?

The terms pastor and priest can be used interchangably.  I suppose that could be a point where a difference could exist. Old testament priests seem more like church pastors/priests to me. I think the wording need be carefully examined, especially in Aramaic, Hebrew as well as English if one wants to differentiate the two. Pastors or church guides might be implicit in a priesthood of believers, egalitarian format where all rotate in roles perhaps with three ranks of beginner, intermediate and elder. If the church structure is efficient and guided by the Holy Spirit, one does have the presence of the pastoring of the Lord. 

All Christians can be pastors and teachers and should learn to do so in a priesthood of believers church structure so they can all be evangelists too in addition to keeping true faith while having the temptation of being the guy on stage removed with all the problems that can cause. There would be little financial temptation for the tired rock and roll performer to become the new performer on the Christian stage, and with voluntary priesthood of believers participation there would be little point in living a duplicitous, hypocritical life as is practical with pew sitting Christians delegating Christian leadership to a stage performer.

Rabbi means 'teacher'; One can act in the role in a priesthood of believers yet not be called 'teacher'. That church could have pro-theologians write script content to be read aloud.

Matthew 23:8 "But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. 9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. 10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. 11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. "

Global Butch Policy of Elites Won't Secularize the Planet Very Soon

The pro-homosexual view of the richest was forced from the top-down on the society through corporate elites and judicial appointees made by Harvard elites. Some of the elites apparently felt that Malthusian over-population could be modified a bit with a zero population growth ethic reinforced by homosexuality. Homosexuality was a tool for Adolph Hitler in subvert opposition through the S.A. with its homosexual leadership. Attacking traditional values is done for numerous reasons in this era mostly of advantage to the richest elites.

Demographically speaking all consumers are of equal value to the rich, and some elites are atheists too, so they find numerous items of traditional society including religion generally offensive and seek to reduce them to nothing that would be regarded as a secular impediment to corporate will and profits. Homosexuality has been a problem since ancient Rome with its cult of Bacchus, and that adverse relationship to society isn’t likely to go away from the west or elsewhere. Instead the homosexual movement will be used to divide society as a contentious social issue from material issues such as an adequate progressive tax rate and a transition to ecological economics.

Homosexuals should have developed a non-belligerent, unadversarial relationship to the U.S.A. and simply invented their own establishment for homocoupling instead of expropriating marriage. With the judiciary behind the homo-corporate agenda homosexual marriage was forced upon Americans. Foreign nations are not going to be too quick to succumb to the ‘western’ corporate agenda for becoming homo-friendly proles without religious convictions. The BLTQ movement just took a wrong approach to blending in to the west. They should have established their own formalized contractual structures and evolved to become respected as citizens and left alone to their own personal choices for eternal sin and damnation if that is what lies beyond the temporal veil. The media does of course general propagandize and proselytize for the BLTQ crowd. Abroad, the necessary propaganda elements may not so quick to heel to the leash of the richest.

I would imagine the controversy will grab media headlines for some time in the future and nip in the bud the prospects for establishing contrary to the economic elites policies that are based in free enterprise ecological economics with directed regulatory parameters for evolution; guidelines that would create a sustainable human ecosystem on the Earth.

I would imagine the controversy will grab media headlines for some time in the future and nip in the bud the prospects for establishing contrary to the economic elites policies that are based in free enterprise ecological economics with directed regulatory parameters for evolution; guidelines that would create a sustainable human ecosystem on the Earth. The Obama era putsch to queer society up was an amazing Bolshevik revolutionary style construction by the richest to force a minority way upon society that worked with the help of the Roberts court. 

A rectification of marriage is likely to occur in the future with it becoming just a heterosexual institution again to concur with reality and the original purpose and laws made to reinforce that paradigm. Homosexuals then would be tolerated and if they want to form their own contractual encumbrances would be free to do so. When homosexuals get off center stage and return the just being ordinary citizens with civil liberties, protections and rights and time passes with normal society function reasonably well, then other societies may take up that approach if they are not coerced to do so. Unfortunately in the bum’s rush to force homosexuality upon the world the Democrat Party has two leading candidates that either were British trained homosexuals or doctrinaire socialists. The prospect for ecological economic political development is repressed to suppressed with the rise of a number of alternative elements tat will simply further more social division at home and abroad.

Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus and Global Trade with Ecological Sustainability Concerns

Trade is an issue of concern mostly for people invested in the present system of globalization, or opposed to it. Some felt that developing nations were taken advantage of by aliens that are rich and empowered with corporate plans to exploit the uniformed savages that are barefoot and without big screen TV’s In my opinion such concerns will continue because people haven’t very good ideas about what or how trade might be done differently or even how to transition an economy to an ecologically sustainable foundation.

I read a textbook on ecological economics once, and I seem to recall that it mentioned that global trade is inefficient in regard to the environment. Harm is done to the atmosphere form all of the global transportation of goods, and harm is done to the oceans and land as well. As global labor is exploited and wages kept down to minimum increases because production can relocate to where the lowest common wage denominator is, so can production and resources be most easily exploited globally as they are locally depleted by producers that relocate when they are gone, or transport more from abroad. A significant change would be to produce as many goods locally as possible and minimize foreign trade. Some day perhaps 3d printers can manufacture goods locally and plans and design program made globally; transferring information on the Internet isn’t too harmful to the environment, although it would be better if server farms were geothermally powered or some other renewable resource was used to power them.

The controversial or contentious item about trade from my point of view is why is it so encouraged to exist in a world that still uses Adam Smith’s 19th century paradigm for free trade given to relax royal restrictions on trade with Europe? In Adam Smith’s day the environment’s limits weren’t too much on the radar except for people like Thomas Robert Malthus, whose concerns about the limits to population growth never really became obsolete. Free enterprise within ecologically economic paradigmata for directed economic evolution can be applied to create a political economy to maximize human potential within rational and sustainable criteria in theory if not in political practice.

Trump Acquittal is Good News for Democracy, but History Shows Org Crime Will Keep Trying

President Trump was the first President to be impeached and acquitted on a purely partisan basis. Democrats generally hate President Trump for a variety of reasons, not all of which are wrong although hatred is, and so they flammed up a pretext for impeachment. The bunk impeachment was as great as danger to democracy in the U.S.A. as was the Nixon directed burglary of the D.N.C.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/02/06/trump-impeachment-verdict-how-america-can-recover-column/4655515002/

If Democrats could have succeeded in removing a President they hate, overturning the vote of 2016, they would have established a one-party rule over America. The Clinton administration seemed to bring in a networking for insider wealth and ad hoc political racketeering rendering the Democrat Party into the mafia that people said it was long ago. That ad hoc mafia was acting as a Shadow government and even had a former Clinton, Biden operative create a San Francisco based Shadow Company that botched the vote count of the Iowa primaries.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-04/clinton-campaign-vets-behind-2020-iowa-caucus-app-snafu

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-02-04/nevada-democratic-presidential-caucuses-questions

The Clintons catalyzed a Democrat Party network synergized with Silicon Valley party partisans able to coordinate headline propaganda with a pejorative outlook. The Clinton Foundation and Sect. Clinton provided free tours for those that made large donations to the foundation. Countless Clinton computer related perfidies, lost hard drives (or erased), unsecured email servers for official state department business, a lost Clinton Diary that reappeared after Vince Foster died- the number of information age perfidies that appeared to be a constant companion of the Clintons and the Democrat Party; no to mention Senator Feinstein’s employment of a Chinese espionage agent, brought distrust to the public and incredulity at the specious nature of the impeachment charges. 

Democrat hatred of the President induced them to conflate bias with facts to produce a subversion of Democracy that was as an attempted coup in effect. Corporatism and socialism may egress to establish itself as a deep shadow government eventually, apparently it was mostly thwarted this time. 

President Trump Acquitted Vacation Next on Congressional Agenda?

President Trump's was acquitted by the Senate on a generally strict party split with Utah's Mitt Romney being the crossover on article 1. One wonders if the Congress has scheduled vacation time all around for a job well done at wasting time and money instead of packaging good bi-partisan legislation.

Both parties seem to applaud the President's state of the union speech reference to the Barrasso Highway Bill. Actually the U.S. should replace its old infrastructure such as highways with new infrastructure rather than rebuild it. One of the challenges of mature civilizations is that they can't fundamentally change their basic infrastructure forms. Asphalt and concrete highways and steel and concrete bridges are such infrastructure the post-modern U.S.A. cannot move beyond with brilliant, new transport ideas that aren't so trampy, slow and solar heat absorbing.

The President's approval rating is 49% though Speaker Pelosi isn't one of those. She said she will not accept the acquittal, and Majority Leader McConnell responded; whatever that means.