Questions: Society & Politics

Yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced a series of proposals to help entrepreneurs create small businesses. Like President Joe Biden, she and her running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, argue that small businesses and entrepreneurs are the “engines of our economy.” In a statement today, they noted that “small businesses employ half of all private-sector workers in America—creating 70 percent of net new jobs since 2019—and do trillions of dollars of business every year.”

The Biden administration has boasted of the record number of new businesses created since Biden and Harris took office. There have been 19 million new business applications in that time. Harris said she and Walz are setting a goal of 25 million new business applications in their first term. Their plan, they say, is to “kickstart…more young, small, and innovative firms.”

To make this happen, they propose raising the deduction for startup expenses from its current level of $5,000 to $50,000, noting that the average amount a new business spends to get set up in its first year of operation is $40,000. They also propose funding a network of new and existing “federal, state, local, and private incubators and small business innovation hubs” that will make it easier for small business and local suppliers to get technical assistance, funding, customers, and so on.

In her statement about economic policy, Harris called out Trump for supporting “himself and the biggest corporations” and noted that sixteen Nobel laureates have said that Trump’s policies would ignite inflation and trigger a recession by mid-2025. That recession, economists project, would cost more than 3 million jobs, explode the deficit, and raise costs. Harris pointed out that Project 2025 would cut funding for the Small Business Administration and make it harder for small businesses to get access to money.

Bombshell! DOJ Chief of Public Affairs Admits Anti-Trump Lawfare A ‘Perversion Of Justice’ In Undercover Video - www.infowars.com/.../bombshell-doj-chief-of-public-affairs-admits-anti-trump-lawfare-a-perversion-of-justice-in-undercover-video

Everyone has an ID. Poor people have ID, you literally need one for a bank account, tobacco/alcohol purchases, and basically every single government function.

Minorities are insulted by ignorance of those who think they're so poor and stupid they have no access to transportation or the Internet and live without an ID of any kind.

Why would you not need to prove you are who you are to vote in the USA when most other countries mandate it?

Putin says Ukraine’s incursion failed; claims he supports Harris in U. S. election, citing her ‘infectious’ laugh - www.nbcnews.com/.../putin-support-kamala-harris-ukraine-incursion-failed-russia-kursk-rcna169681

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I woke up to this news post this morning and I honestly can't see why in the world the guy actually needed to be fired for having a rifle scope on the wrong way. Am I missing something? Is it fair to relieve a ship commander of his duties for such a small thing? Does the U. S. military find it to be that humiliating? To me that's worse than how Russia used to make their generals kill themselves for losing battles in WWI and II.

Thoughts?

"Months after a photo of Cameron Yaste, commander of the destroyer USS John McCain, went viral and landed him in trouble, he has been relieved of duty, according to an official statement from the US Navy. In the photo that caused this situation, commanding officer Yaste was seen firing a rifle with a scope mounted backwards."
https://www.wionews.com/world/us-navy-warship-commander-relieved-of-duty-months-after-rifle-scope-mishap-went-viral-756045

If you agree that federal employees should not be making public endorsements, is this a free speech issue? A collective bargaining issue? Use NDAs? Is it constitutional?

The same questions regarding federal contractors - are they private corporations or are they federal employees?

For for federal contractors and employees, what should the punishment be if they do make public endorsements (if any)?

Would the prohibition on employees in contractors speech be absolute? Meaning it would apply for social media? Backyard BBQ conversations?

I'll provide the answer later

Gun ownership increasing

Gun deaths increasing

Mass shootings increasing

Gun stats