Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

Moderate libertarian, Teacher (MS Science, HS Biology, HS CTE Health Occupations), Mom. Gen X-er. Indiana, USA Joined September 2019

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

7 minutes ago

@NorthshoreRob59 @Maria95239969 @OrevaZSN Right but most people don't get paid by the month. They get paid by the week or every two weeks, so that's how I figured up the budget.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

11 minutes ago

@Arkad_y_t @Shady1nn Also, 8 million Russians starved in 1921-1922 after the Russian civil war. Another 8 million in 1930-1933 during Stalin's forced agricultural collectivization & 1.5 million starved during the siege of Leningrad. Millions of Russians also left Russia due to the Russia revolution.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

19 minutes ago

@Arkad_y_t @Shady1nn Nobody said that about Tsarist Russia You made that up :) Russia was a global military power with a developing economy before WW1 and has been a global military power with a developing economy ever since.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

2 hours ago

@Arkad_y_t @Shady1nn I'm discussing your hypothetical situation too. Your new socialist country would be shit. It would have no value. Everybody productive would leave. You and your friends would starve. Sad face.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

2 hours ago

@Arkad_y_t @Shady1nn Twitter Marxists aren't going to "delete" the national debt lol. And deleting the national debt would cause a global economic crisis. It would eliminate savings, pensions, investments, government budgets, etc. Unemployment would spike globally. Everyone would be much worse off.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

3 hours ago

@kaleidic @cafreiman But monopoly doesn't represent free market. In free markets, you'd be able to create new streets to compete with your opponents through offering lower rents so they can avoid the higher rents.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

5 hours ago

@Arkad_y_t @Shady1nn You can't just ignore it. Money doesn't have value on its own. Government spending only has value through taxation or inflation. Whether you ignore it or not. Ignoring something doesn't mean it doesn't exist lol. That's the logic of a toddler.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

6 hours ago

@RelearningEcon You're arguing with imaginary anarchists, not mainstream economics.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

6 hours ago

@RelearningEcon Money isn't value. Government creates money. It doesn't create value. Money is a claim on value. When government creates money, it's a claim on value other people create. The value is confiscated by government through taxation or inflation.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

7 hours ago

@DissentFu You wouldn't be better off without rich people. Whatever is keeping you from being able to save and/or own a home would still be keeping you from being able to save and/or own home.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

7 hours ago

@NKY_Leftist You're arguing with your imagination.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

7 hours ago

@peoplesposting @Danny456080 You don't have to do business with billionaires if you don't want. But these people became rich by creating value for lots and lots of people. You shouldn't be able to stop those people from doing business with the companies they value just because you don't like rich people.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

7 hours ago

@peoplesposting @Danny456080 You're not citing examples of any law broken or any civil right you don't have due to any billionaire. What people say and want are not infringements on your civil rights. You're arguing with your imagination.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

10 hours ago

@peoplesposting @Danny456080 You're not actually describing any crimes or civil rights that you're losing due to any of these people.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

20 hours ago

@Maria95239969 @OrevaZSN ?? I support welfare programs. But raising minimum wages can hurt the people they're meant to help &/or cause inflation. But like i said, I'm fine with either raising the minimum wage to a minimum living wage (probably $11-12 in Indiana) or as is with food stamps & section 8.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

21 hours ago

@Maria95239969 @OrevaZSN But I think the minimum wage-living wage discourse ignores the realities of why the lowest wage workers don't earn higher wages. Raising minimum wages tends to shut out the least employable workers (teens, ex-cons, people with history of poor job performance), not raise them up.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

21 hours ago

@Maria95239969 @OrevaZSN Right. I'm just saying I didn't dodge the federal minimum wage. And it's a vicious circle of "raise the minimum wage to x" and "don't cause a benefits cliff." I'm fine with either one, but we have to be realistic that minimum anything is always going to be below average.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

21 hours ago

@Maria95239969 @OrevaZSN You named a place with a higher minimum wage. Indiana has a 7.25 minimum wage. But nobody actually makes minimum wage. Still, at 7.25, you'd qualify for free healthcare & $200+ in food stamps and subsidized rent.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

22 hours ago

@tautolog @RockChartrand No it didn't. The federal government was already corrupt. It was already inefficient. It was already huge and bureaucratic. Neither Citizens United nor Citizens United Not Timid increased federal power or spending.

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Indiana Moderate @IndianaModerate

22 hours ago

@tautolog @RockChartrand Dude. Citizens United ruled that political donations are free speech. It didn't increase government power or increase government spending. We limit the power of federal government by passing laws to restrict power and/or repealing laws that give it extra-constitutional powers.