Because families that tend toward two incomes and no kids tend to be net taxpayers (vice tax recepients) at the local level (because of how property taxes and what they're spent on work - NYC is a special case though in this.)
The 'gay' neighborhoods tended to be the vanguards of gentrification and the beachheads for reversing white flight.
The fact that NYC was a muckhole on the ten years on either side of 1980 has nothing to do with gay people and the fact that it was much better in the 90's and 00's is in no small part due to gay people being able to be in open committed relationships.
"At least, the politicians calling themselves libertarians"
This is as noted a small set, (Paul, Flake, Bob Barr, ?), but let's look again at what they are saying.
"worried about the apparent ability of the executive to imprison people without charge and torture them"
I think all three guys above are against this, I know Ron Paul is.
" $300 billion for war? Keep it."
Again I know Ron Paul is against this as I think the others are
But really, most people that call themselves libertarian don't like eternal war and the commensurate abuses. I'm not sure which liberatarians you're talking about. And the talk radio types are always either dissing on Paul for his 'blame America first' views or simply calling him naive.
Ron Paul does have an opinion on abortion that aligns with the conservative right (and disagrees with mine). The abortion debate is an intractable irresolvable difference of opinion on competing rights. There is no libertarian litmus test on this issue.
"The funniest example of this is opposition to gay marriage,"
I think Paul being the crusty ol sort he is doesn't personally approve of gay marriage, but is at least not willing to make a federal case out of it. And has the (not practical, but wholly reasonable) position of getting government out of the marriage business all together. But once again, what sort of libertarians are you listening to that are against gay marriage? (or Scotsmen?)
"it’s important to emphasize that it’s the mainstream conservatives in America and the GOP politically associated with them who have real hope to offer America, and neither one of us should ever forget it."
Ok, I'll bite. What do mainstream conservatives and the GOP associated with them have to offer Frank Sobtka in that one scene when he sees the future of the shipping industry? I'm as big a fan of globalization and free trade as they come, and I don't have an answer for him. Not with our existing institutions and any plausible changes to them (and even some implausible ones)
"permitting crèches and Ten Commandments displays on state or local government property, paring down the admittedly prophylactic exclusionary rule of criminal evidence in aid of good faith law enforcement, and so on."
These are not matters of Constitutional law? (and that's beside the fact that I think neither are good things - 10 years of reading Balko (and watching COPS) has made this law&order type believe that 'good faith law enforcement' is a contradiction in terms)
A quibble with an otherwise excellent post because I'm a middle ground guy.
"In contrast, Marlo Stanfield, a rival to the powerful Barksdale drug family, makes upward movement in the crime world by disavowing absolute power, keeping a low profile, and, in true Machiavellian fashion, taking advantage of events as they occur."
Agree on 2 & 3, but does he really disavow absolute power? Or is he just really good at delegating? Malvo's reaction to that one store security guard who took objection to Malvo pilfering some candy (worth maybe a buck or two) shows that Malvo perceives a need to demonstrate his authority even for petty slights.
Simon comes across to me as a small s socialist (or at least labor leftist), but with a strong skepticism of institutions. So perhaps a politics & worldview that align closely with Kevin Carson's.
Also, money is only about ads (though it's a big part of it). It's also about building a professional staff and an organization both deep and wide that's able to get out the vote on the day of the election. (and before that, get more money). (this is Obama was able to beat Clinton, and run up the score - relatively speaking - when he defeated McCain)
One aphorism I always heard was that white people in the South liked certain black people in particular, but disliked black people generally, while white people in the North liked black people generally, but disliked black people in particular.
I.e., in the South, black people could be nannies or cooks or what have you, as long as they went to their side of the tracks after dark. In the North, black people could do whatever they wanted, as long as they did it somewhere else.
"Second, and related, lots of consumption doesn’t really involve buying a thing. People pay for rent or a doctor’s visit or a fortune teller. How do you collect sales tax on something like that"
Without asserting a position either way on the Fair Tax, Canada and her provinces have had a "Goods and Services Tax" (in some provinces now called "HST" for harmonized* I think) for decades.
Which does, on the margin, esp in the country, make it more worthwhile to get your relatives and/or neighbors to help you fix something in your house for a case of Keiths than to hire a professional.
*harmonized between federal and provincial, (again) I think
They may allow all ordinary consequences to follow
> an action, exactly as might happen without a law.
I readily submit that there’s a bunch of laws like this, but I’m surprisingly unable to come up with a bunch of examples off my head.
I'd say the group of (civil) laws that limit torts. For instance, if I put all my money in Bank of America stock 6 months ago, the law explicitly says* I can't sue either ScottTrade, NYSE, or Bank of America because I lost almost half my money.
It's impossible to describe the US's relationship with Taiwan in a single sentence (i.e. there's at least two more layers on top of how you summarized it), which makes the PRC relationship an archetypical engagement strategy (c.f. Pakistan)
Why shouldn't of we gone in and taken care of Stalin after we* took care of Hitler, when Paul was about 10? Or Mao in '72? Both had body counts well in excess of Hitlers'.
On “Our monument won’t be a hole in the ground”
Because families that tend toward two incomes and no kids tend to be net taxpayers (vice tax recepients) at the local level (because of how property taxes and what they're spent on work - NYC is a special case though in this.)
The 'gay' neighborhoods tended to be the vanguards of gentrification and the beachheads for reversing white flight.
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The fact that NYC was a muckhole on the ten years on either side of 1980 has nothing to do with gay people and the fact that it was much better in the 90's and 00's is in no small part due to gay people being able to be in open committed relationships.
On “The economic hurdles of a left-libertarian alliance”
"At least, the politicians calling themselves libertarians"
This is as noted a small set, (Paul, Flake, Bob Barr, ?), but let's look again at what they are saying.
"worried about the apparent ability of the executive to imprison people without charge and torture them"
I think all three guys above are against this, I know Ron Paul is.
" $300 billion for war? Keep it."
Again I know Ron Paul is against this as I think the others are
But really, most people that call themselves libertarian don't like eternal war and the commensurate abuses. I'm not sure which liberatarians you're talking about. And the talk radio types are always either dissing on Paul for his 'blame America first' views or simply calling him naive.
Ron Paul does have an opinion on abortion that aligns with the conservative right (and disagrees with mine). The abortion debate is an intractable irresolvable difference of opinion on competing rights. There is no libertarian litmus test on this issue.
"The funniest example of this is opposition to gay marriage,"
I think Paul being the crusty ol sort he is doesn't personally approve of gay marriage, but is at least not willing to make a federal case out of it. And has the (not practical, but wholly reasonable) position of getting government out of the marriage business all together. But once again, what sort of libertarians are you listening to that are against gay marriage? (or Scotsmen?)
On “Unions and Corporations”
Alternatively: Social Realism is PEOPLE! It's PEOPLE!
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I suppose the point of the graphic is not that the EPA has regulated jobs out of existence? :)
On “Lessons Gleaned from The Wire”
"it’s important to emphasize that it’s the mainstream conservatives in America and the GOP politically associated with them who have real hope to offer America, and neither one of us should ever forget it."
Ok, I'll bite. What do mainstream conservatives and the GOP associated with them have to offer Frank Sobtka in that one scene when he sees the future of the shipping industry? I'm as big a fan of globalization and free trade as they come, and I don't have an answer for him. Not with our existing institutions and any plausible changes to them (and even some implausible ones)
On “The Constitutional Conservatism Newspeak”
"permitting crèches and Ten Commandments displays on state or local government property, paring down the admittedly prophylactic exclusionary rule of criminal evidence in aid of good faith law enforcement, and so on."
These are not matters of Constitutional law? (and that's beside the fact that I think neither are good things - 10 years of reading Balko (and watching COPS) has made this law&order type believe that 'good faith law enforcement' is a contradiction in terms)
On “Lessons Gleaned from The Wire”
A quibble with an otherwise excellent post because I'm a middle ground guy.
"In contrast, Marlo Stanfield, a rival to the powerful Barksdale drug family, makes upward movement in the crime world by disavowing absolute power, keeping a low profile, and, in true Machiavellian fashion, taking advantage of events as they occur."
Agree on 2 & 3, but does he really disavow absolute power? Or is he just really good at delegating? Malvo's reaction to that one store security guard who took objection to Malvo pilfering some candy (worth maybe a buck or two) shows that Malvo perceives a need to demonstrate his authority even for petty slights.
"
Simon comes across to me as a small s socialist (or at least labor leftist), but with a strong skepticism of institutions. So perhaps a politics & worldview that align closely with Kevin Carson's.
On “The Constitution is Old”
Also, money is only about ads (though it's a big part of it). It's also about building a professional staff and an organization both deep and wide that's able to get out the vote on the day of the election. (and before that, get more money). (this is Obama was able to beat Clinton, and run up the score - relatively speaking - when he defeated McCain)
On “Sexism in Fantasy”
If Frank Rich ever has carnal relations with a female tiger, you *both* has something to blog about!
On “A kinder, gentler Martin Luther King, Jr.”
One aphorism I always heard was that white people in the South liked certain black people in particular, but disliked black people generally, while white people in the North liked black people generally, but disliked black people in particular.
I.e., in the South, black people could be nannies or cooks or what have you, as long as they went to their side of the tracks after dark. In the North, black people could do whatever they wanted, as long as they did it somewhere else.
On “Sexism in Fantasy”
Well, at least Mr. Likko now has more data for his ongoing study of the LOOG gender gap.
(and who knows what will happen when the discovery of multiple comment threads on identical posts at the same website is made)
On “The end of liberal interventionism would be a wonderful new beginning”
But what if you find out they're pedophiles? Or dog abusers? Or 2 1/2 Men fans?
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I had a 50/50 shot on who/whom but I assert I'm using 'beg' correctly (i.e. not 'raise' but 'avoid')
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"If an ally of ours is attacked we should help protect them"
Which begs the question, whom should be our allies?
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"Let’s face it, France, Britain, and Italy (refugee flow to Italy was a HUGE concern) did the lion’s share of work here,"
I suppose it depends what one means by "Lion's share"
Perhaps as in, a lion that takes all the credit (and maybe will do some of the killing at the end), while the lioness does most of the work? :)
On “How To Design A Consumption Tax That Isn’t Stupid”
"Second, and related, lots of consumption doesn’t really involve buying a thing. People pay for rent or a doctor’s visit or a fortune teller. How do you collect sales tax on something like that"
Without asserting a position either way on the Fair Tax, Canada and her provinces have had a "Goods and Services Tax" (in some provinces now called "HST" for harmonized* I think) for decades.
Which does, on the margin, esp in the country, make it more worthwhile to get your relatives and/or neighbors to help you fix something in your house for a case of Keiths than to hire a professional.
*harmonized between federal and provincial, (again) I think
On “Actions, Consequences, and the Law”
I'd say the group of (civil) laws that limit torts. For instance, if I put all my money in Bank of America stock 6 months ago, the law explicitly says* I can't sue either ScottTrade, NYSE, or Bank of America because I lost almost half my money.
*iianm, but ianal so fwiw
On ““If you seek our monument, look in the hole””
I thought the argument here is those policies aren't making people feral, but too domesticated, like sheep.
On “Presidential Fictions”
"This is not to say that fiction should be didactic (God forbid it!),"
Unfortunately, Ayn Rand didn't believe in God.
On “Tripoli and the hawks”
It's impossible to describe the US's relationship with Taiwan in a single sentence (i.e. there's at least two more layers on top of how you summarized it), which makes the PRC relationship an archetypical engagement strategy (c.f. Pakistan)
On “Bloody Madness”
The food reason was in fact a good reason in both cases :)
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Why shouldn't of we gone in and taken care of Stalin after we* took care of Hitler, when Paul was about 10? Or Mao in '72? Both had body counts well in excess of Hitlers'.
*and by we I mean he. We took care of Tojo.
On “Big Beer”
If bathtubs full of ice and Milwaukee's Best are no longer plentiful at state universities, no wonder we're losing the future to the Chinese.
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