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I provide our folks with a very nice high deductible plan plus an HSA contribution that roughly equals the deductible.
They pay 25% of premiums, I pay 75%.
Our premium increase for 2026? 17%
It’s a broken system, largely because of the misuse of “insurance” to cover things like birth control, childbirth, and testosterone replacement. Insurance should only be for things you don’t want, like broken limbs or cancer, not for things you consume as a matter of living or vanity.
and don’t get me started on weight loss drugs. They are amazing. Don’t get me wrong, but an insurance plan “insuring” a fat person only to turn around and pay for weight loss drugs isn’t insurance, it’s a transfer payment.
my opinion? Treat healthcare consumption like we treat any other consumption. Allow people to insure against true risks and provide risk assessed payment plans for everything else.
I’d rather have childless cat ladies paying off their birth control debt in their 60s than to have the government supplying it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Cmon bd. You know better. It was just a rally to be for what you are against.
It was a “we don’t like YOU!” Rally.
no issue needed. Just hate.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)A truly sad day for the U.S. and lovers of civil discourse. He was staunch, but engaged with all comers and was no demagogue. Just a sad, sad day. I fear for the country. This will not bring us together.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I would pass a law that says states can only district by “boxes ” comprised of 2 latitudes and 2 longitudes. The box has to contain the population for one seat in Congress.
No frills.
would it be better? I don’t know, but I do know it would largely remove the gerrymander power.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Too late? They started cutting a year ago.
what’s that you say? They stopped cutting when Trump was elected? Oh.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The net difference in Republican registrations is striking, and I’m going to bet it accelerates as so much of the funding for votes on the left came from laundered taxpayer dollars. The effect is real and won’t be talked about.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I have been there a bunch over the past decade and agree that its reputation is far worse than reality.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Of course it was politically motivated. Wait until the “felonies” are overthrown on appeal as well. That circus deserves to be undone, but it will undercut one of the core political narratives (“convicted felon”) of the past 2 years.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The difference between Bundy and Kaczynski is that Kaczynski may one day be viewed as a prophet.
I agree with Mick that the stats aren’t a flex. For a person to have a criminal record, he has to be convicted. I have zero problem with detaining and deporting an illegal immigrant who consorts with known criminals…regardless of his own criminal record.
Put it this way, if I walk into a room that has 10 illegal immigrants in it actively, for instance, handling stolen merchandise, and 3 are hardened criminals with records, I’m fine w/ using ICE to deport the whole lot.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)A theory:
For years, people have preferred reaching a “real person” to reaching an automated agent.
That’s all changing. Automated agents are now (and will be in the future) more polite, flattering, and helpful than most human agents.
In the future, people will prefer AIs for friendship, advice, companionship, and service. Why? Because people are a pain in the ass, and AIs are programmed to be flattering and to tell you what you want to hear while influencing you.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The women were punching up. That’s all that matters to that faction of the polity. Suck a dick to get ahead and it’s the guys fault.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)What happened w ice? I couldn’t get past the paywall. Literally cancelled my La times sub last month. It looked like they just showed up.
what do you have against law enforcement showing up where laws are likely being broken?
are there things I won’t defend? Yes. Open borders, sanctuary cities, abolishment of cash bond. Things like that.
do I think it’s heavy handed to have ICE show up at a rally visibly? Sure. Do I think it’s wrong? No.
what’s wrong is that people, maybe you, are triggered by men who are asked to bring law and order. They are more triggered by that than by public drug use and street culture intimidation.
that should be indefensible.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think tariffs are taxes and that taxes are deflationary. These act through price, which can create some transitory price spikes. But aggregate demand goes down when taxes go up.
I don’t think Trump cares about that. I do think he cares about US competitiveness and a re set to global trade. The “what happened to 90 deals in 90 days” rhetoric ignores what has been done. The 90 deals is typical politician bluster (“shovel ready jobs” is one winner of similar magnitude, as was “no new taxes”).
Scientifically, and I don’t give the administration full credit for being scientific…they operate more like a jazz band, price is the best way to get things to restructure quickly. Tariffs go to wholesale price and we already see how fast supply chains restructure.
btd, were you comfortable with China supplying nearly a quarter of all U.S. imports? Do you believe that the U.S. should be the consumer market for the world? Do you think that the U.S. is special in needing lower trade barriers than most other countries in the world?
funny, I grew up a business school educated free trader, but never lost my sense of fairness. I then watched China steal and lie its way to owning IP and manufacturing assets it had no right to…and of course no tax on NATO. So I’m willing to see where this goes.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I just hope you are being ironic, because the mention of projection and the outline of the exact lawfare scenario Trump faced, including mugshot and trumped up charges…is deeply ironic.
why would Trump do that when he knows it strengthened his own candidacy?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Antifa was not law enforcement.
what does the “E” in ICE stand for?
Brown shirts were not law enforcement.
NRA scaremongering about jack booted thugs confiscating arms from citizens has nothing to do with immigration enforcement against non citizen illegal aliens.
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