Gordon Danning

@KingHamlet23 @BBGreatMoments WAR agrees with you.

@GordonDanning @BBGreatMoments buddy. trust me when i tell that GIVEN THE CHOICE no one (including yourself) would take peak Bernard Span over peak Alfonso Soriano. not one front office.

WAR might be the most misleading stat in baseball. Agree or disagree?

@KingHamlet23 @BBGreatMoments WAR doesn't say they had the same career. It says that they were equally valuable, despite having different careers. That's a strength, not a weakness.

@BBGreatMoments You mean this? Yeah

@250_Revolution They did. justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/thr…

How is it Joe Biden brought in 87,000 IRS agent and not one of them ever found the Somalia fraud in Minnesota? Anyone?

@ProfMJCleveland If you don't understand the difference between literacy and reading at grade level, you shouldn't be opining on education policy.

By 1900, the United States had achieved a 90% literacy rate largely by using McGuffey Readers in one-room schoolhouses.  But, yeah, NYC’s problem is it’s not spending enough money.

@CodifyBaseball Are we assuming he never walks? A guy with a .700 OPS isn't a great offensive player. And note that he will never advance runners more than one base.

How valuable is an MLB hitter who only bunts (never fully swings) but consistently hits .350 doing it? Assume he has the elite speed necessary to pull this off (so he can steal bases) but that all hits are singles. Is he a good offensive player or an offensive liability?

@StanfordBeddoe @mattyglesias @MattBruenig Except that outcomes are getting better, not worse. Eg: healthline.com/health-news/u-… aha.org/news/headline/…

@mattyglesias @MattBruenig When are Democrats going to wake up to the fact that insurance coverage is not our biggest healthcare problem? If it was, then health outcomes would have improved under Obamacare. Instead, they kept getting worse.

Useful @MattBruenig chart which reminds that “bottom 10% of income” does not line up that well with intuitive concepts of “the poor” since there’s a ton of retirees in there.

@NoyesArt @jamesetta_w No, I said deaths affect outcomes. The original post was about the economic team, who do not formulate COVID policy at any level, and certainly not at the state level.

@GordonDanning @jamesetta_w Dead people has a lot to do with economic policy you said so yourself

My unpopular opinion is that Biden’s econ team achieved their stated goal of world class Covid recovery, avoided recession (once thought inevitable), prioritized employment, navigated global inflation, and delivered benefits to the working class. it’s just that voters hated it.

@NoyesArt @jamesetta_w Surely you know that COVID policies were largely state-level, not federal level. And that death rates tended to be higher in red states. statista.com/statistics/110… But none of this has anything to do with economic policy.

@GordonDanning @jamesetta_w There were a million dead from covid in the US. So what you're saying is the economy could have been better if Biden were less negligent? Maybe the citizens feel that

@NoyesArt @jamesetta_w Killing people does not help the economy. It hurts the economy. You are just making things up.

@GordonDanning @jamesetta_w Killing people to get there is demonic. Trying to pretend the economic charts matter more than people's lives makes you complicit too

@NoyesArt @jamesetta_w They are talking about the economic recovery. Which was indeed world class. home.treasury.gov/news/featured-…

@jamesetta_w "World class covid recovery" was killing the most people in the world through public health negligence. Wonder why people hated it

@MarcGoldwein So what? The question is how much more that is than what people and employers pay for private insurance now. Why do I care if I pay for health insurance via a tax or through buying private insurance?

This kind of Medicare for all would cost About $30 trillion over a decade. Financing that it would require a 32% payroll tax, a 25% income surtax, a 42% VAT, or a $12,000 per person “public premium”. crfb.org/papers/choices…

@No1vakMarko @alphafox You think that because you're ignorant.

@GordonDanning @alphafox I can imagine a family living in NYC. It is the biggest trash accumulated in the world wandering around without a real reason with no future. And when I see that people are brainwashed that is luxury I know I am blessed.

Imagine spending a million dollars for a NYC apartment with this view - and then this happens: 😭

@middle_class_us Im on the Target website now. 5 disposable razors = $7.55. 22 oz Suave shampoo = $2.59.

Two items at Target. Shampoo and razor heads. $30. Basic hygiene is now a financial decision in America. Not a vacation. Not a dinner out. Not a luxury. Shampoo and a razor. And the people in charge are still telling working Americans they just need to spend smarter.

@cupcakesNar15s @Axelay_ @UziCryptoo No, how about you posting evidence? Because you can't, because your claim is just wrong.

@GordonDanning @Axelay_ @UziCryptoo Nope. Go research it. They just make people believe a deed = ownership.

You can't tax rich people on unrealized gains from stocks because "it's not real money until it's sold." So explain to me why my property taxes keep going up based on the unrealized value of my house? I didn't sell it. I didn't cash out. I didn't make a profit. But somehow I'm paying taxes on paper gains every single year. Interesting how "unrealized gains" only become a problem when wealthy folks are involved.

@RameshBotha @mattyglesias Yes. taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/va…

@mattyglesias Why is VAT relevant here? Is sales tax in the US a smaller % of GDP than VAT in Europe?

1. Euro tax systems differ from the US in taxing the middle and working class more, not taxing the rich more. 2. On net, higher taxes + free health insurance would make most middle class people better off. 3. US *poor* benefit from getting Medicaid without paying VAT.

@No1vakMarko @alphafox Imagine being able to walk to world class museums, theater, art, film, restaurants, etc. Or imagine people having different preferences than you.

@alphafox Imagine spending a million to live in NYC in the middle of concrete, skyscrapers and air polution. I don't get it. Would sue anybody that would put me there for free. I am blessed I guess.

@travisakers dtujax.com/members/member…

I was genuinely thrilled to join my teacher’s union last year when I entered education. Finally, someone had my back, right? One year and $360 later ($36/month), I’m asking, “what did that money actually do for me?” I spent more in union dues than my salary increase next year…

@beerandtokens Are you taking the astronomical mortgage rates of the 80s into account? fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAG…

“People make plenty of money.” The median household income would have to be nearly $200k to have the same home buying power as the median household income in the 80s. People.. PLEASE DO SOME RESEARCH.

@Axelay_ @UziCryptoo What are you talking about? Of course you own the land. Go read a deed.

@UziCryptoo You own stocks. You don't own your land. You do own your 'house' (or more likely the bank does) but you pay rent for the land the house is built upon. Rent goes up over time as land values increase. (the never seem to go down though)

@rpondiscio @DavWarren3 4 million? The BLS projects 40,500 middle school openings per year over the next decade, 66,200 high school, and 103,800 kindergarten and elementary school. That is about 2 million over the next 10 years.

@DavWarren3 You could double salaries--even triple them--and still not match tech, medicine, law, or engineering. Which fields do you see luring teachers from for the salaries you envision? Also, we need 4 million teachers: that's more than law, medicine, and engineering combined.

I’m in favor of raising teacher pay. But I’m unclear how this will “fix” education: is it that teachers are not working hard but will for a raise? Or that higher salaries will lure capable people from law, medicine, tech, etc.?