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@Ramshutu
I enjoy my #1 position and I have school to do.
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@Ramshutu
Since it's the school year, I don't want to do hard debates right now. How about sometime this summer when I have more time?
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@Ramshutu
suggest a topic :P
Are you challenging me?
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@Barney
I want to stay #1 on this site.
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@Vader
I'm surprised. Thanks for the update. :)
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Hello. If you want to post any funny memes/funny vines here, please feel free to do so. This fourm was created by ME(me).
Did anyone get that?
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He only has 5 debates and 3 of them are from type1. As you rank up, you get less points for victories and more points for losses.
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It's pretty close. RM got ahead of me as of the time of this comment, but he has a loss coming in. It's going to be close.
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@David
@bsh1
2 votes for yes. 1 vote for no. I'm surprised. I thought most people would say no but it's still early. Do any of the mods know. They have access to IP addresses.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
I guess you have a point.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
so the current teachers aren't doing a good enough job then?
In some classes, they don't do a good enough job, like AP Chem. In other classes, like Pre Calc, I get the material and can learn it. I think the education system is better in ares that pay the teachers more because money does motivate people.
are there enough teachers looking for jobs?
Depends on the subject. For English, there are dozens of people applying for one job. For math, that's not the case.
do you believe people with no degrees or 4 year or less degrees could be good teachers, people with real world and work experience?
I think all federal teachers nationwide should have masters degrees. This is partly why the North East is more wealthy then the South and the Mid west per person.
what is the minimum amount a teacher has to be paid for them to be good at their job?
I would place the minimum salary of a teacher at $50,000 nationwide. They contribute a lot to society. They should get paid more.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
In order for teachers to do a better job, they need to get paid more. If more teachers are hired, it can cut class sizes in half so kids learn better. If we instead, prioritize the PhD, then students can learn better that way. Bad teachers tend to be not that well trained in teaching (maybe) and should either get help or get trained to be better or should quit/get fired. However, to do this, money is required.
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@janesix
See a doctor because they know better then I do.
What does this mean?This is the last couple of months
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
If we have more money, we can hire more or better teachers which can help prepare our students better for the world so they can be prosperous.
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@Harikrish
Are you a convert to Hinduism or were you born into it?
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@Ramshutu
A new one can be built somewhere else. In the meantime, the area that was destroyed can be bioremediated.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
To better prepare our students for the real world so they get a goo life after school. School is an investment.
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Nuclear power kills less people then all other forms of electricity except wind. It doesn't pollute. Any time it melts down, a new one can be built that's better then previously. Trial and error.
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Thanks.
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@Dustandashes
Your profile says you are a conservative. Are you left wing on anything?
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I say no. They are too different.
No: 1. Yes: 0.
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@Polytheist-Witch
It's harder to teach high schoolers then it is to teach college students. High schoolers need more motivation. The education system can be reformed if that's better for the students, but I think it could use some more funding too.
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No. It can cause only biased votes to be cast if I were to block every left winger on the site from voting on a debate I instigate.
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@David
@bsh1
Can you treat troll debates as real ones? This way, you get less of them.
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@blamonkey
I would want to pay the teachers higher salaries but they have to earn it. They would all need PhDs in their subject to be able to legally teach. This way, students learn from someone more qualified. Another option would be to hire more teachers to reduce class size so students learn better that way.
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@Polytheist-Witch
I support guns and I don't use the Constitution. I use other arguments.
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@Polytheist-Witch
If the education system is messed up, it can be reformed, then more money can be spent on it.
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@Polytheist-Witch
It works in preparing people for the future. America has a high GDP per capita in part because of education.
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@Polytheist-Witch
You made the claim. I'm not sure if it's accurate.
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@Polytheist-Witch
He does? Can you provide evidence for that?
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@oromagi
What are you referring to?
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@3RU7AL
It also says you should stone people to death for picking up sticks on the Sabbath.
This was old testament. The OT is merely a historical document unless Jesus says to still abide by it. Otherwise, you would see Christians being kosher like the Jews. Despite this, there is NT quotes that have alienated me from Christianity.
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@Mopac
Having a flawless argument is not going to convert people. People are not converted through debate.
I've been convinced a few times by good points.
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@YeshuaRedeemed
What do you think of type1?
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@YeshuaRedeemed
I want a pistol and an AK 47 when I'm older. Maybe a hunting rifle too if I'm into that.
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@YeshuaRedeemed
I love the 2nd amendment. Provides protection against criminals and a potentially tyrannical government.
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@YeshuaRedeemed
I like free speech too.
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@dustryder
Do you think businesses can support these extra wage costs?
How would it be more expensive? If anything, it's cheaper for a business because they don't have to hire someone around the clock.
They pay around ~$10,500.
It's nearly $12,000. Besides, the US has a debt to pay off. We need to tax people more to pay our foreign debt off. Once we pay off our debt, taxes would fall to about $13,000 per person.
It sounds like you're punishing the poor for being poor.
I'm not. I'm merely not rewarding it with tax discounts.
The simple fact of life is where you are born in life more often than not decides where you will end up in life. A person who is born in poverty in the ghetto's is more likely to continue to be impoverished for his/her life compared to someone born upper-class.
With this tax system, it would encourage poor people to earn more money since they're not being taxed for earning more anymore. With a strict spending plan that poor people can adopt as found in https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/136MFNyPCnOs50_QltxPvkBpS2OydnNfG7WZYb21qTrM/edit#gid=320988619, it enables the poor to save money up for things like investing which can help them get out of poverty. This way, they aren't dependent on the government for social programs that hold them back.
Well what happens to someone who cannot work, or works but cannot get enough hours?
Why can't they work? If they're mentally disabled (I say this as someone with autism), then they can still work at stop and shop as a shop bagger or something. I know someone who is mentally handicapped that does that.
Or the people who now have to work more than double their hours every single day with 1 hour of rest inside a tent that contains all their belongings.
They work less then double what they currently do by American standards(America has 8 hour work days). They would get 9 hours to do what they want. This mostly will be occupied by sleep but they can do other things.
For example, how would you approach someone that has scammed their way into wealth or someone who has purely inherited all of their wealthy?
If they got their wealth through illegal means, then they would be punished. If they inherited their wealth, then they basically got a very big gift from their Dad. It doesn't make sense to tax a gift. Most billionaires are self made with the majority of their wealth. By mentioning people who inherited their money, your basically saying that the self made rich people can keep their wealth.
Poor people put in hard work, why do you think it's justified to negate their hard work just because it isn't as impactful towards society?
Because contribution to society matters more then the amount of work you put into a product. For example, if you spend 20 hours a day working on a solving a crossword puzzle, you don't deserve to get paid for it. If you spend 20 hours a day developing a cure for cancer, you deserve to get paid for it. It's the same amount of work, but it's the productiveness to society that matters.
Why do you think it's justified to put them into slave-like conditions?
It's not slavery if they get paid a satisfactory wage that they can tolerate. Especially when this wage is high enough where they can save money and get ahead eventually.
The more likely scenario is that one person's GPA starts at 4.0, and another person's GPA starts at 1.0. The person with the 1.0 GPA has a chance to end up with a good GPA, but in general, the person with the higher starting GPA will end up with the higher GPA..
The person that started with a 1.0 GPA probably won't get as high of a GPA, but they can still get a GPA of 2 or 3 with enough production to their GPA. He would have more work to do, it wouldn't necessarily be more difficult, but he would have to play catch up if he wants a decent GPA. It's harder, but possible, and it's through independence and lack of government redistribution and an emphases on independence that America has a higher GDP per capita then the EU, while being less urban. Right Wing America even has a higher GDP per capita then even left wing Scandinavia.
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@YeshuaRedeemed
How can we criticize Islam, when we attack people who don't believe as we do.
Christians don't kill non Christians the way Muslims kill non Muslims. Not all Muslims do it, but a significant portion of Muslims support thing like Shariah law according to Pew Research.
I sent you a friend request.
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@dustryder
Right. But the hours to be worked have to be provided from somewhere. Businesses employ people and set hours based on the viability of operating that business in that period of time. Business maintain operability based on the number of customers they receive.
If a business operates from 6 am to 9 pm(or 6:00 to 21:00, I don't know if New Zealand has the 24 hour clock), then that's seems to be when people would be getting stuff from that business.
My thoughts are you've drastically lowered the quality of life for a majority of Americans
This does not affect the majority of America. All it does is it gives the poor what they deserve for working a low paying job. If they want a better job, they got to earn it. How they would earn it depends on their profession. Plus according to my spreadsheet, the poor at the end of the year would actually have a lot of money left over. They may not be living in a house, but they have money that can be used for investments so they can eventually afford to rent a place due to dividends.
murdered the ones at the lower end
How did I murder them? Putting someone in a tent is not murdering them.
I have no idea why you think this is a good idea.
Because the rich contributed way more to society then the poor did and therefore should be allowed to keep their money. Therefore, I think any income tax is unjustified towards the rich that earned their money. It's like GPAs. If your GPA is a 4, someone else's GPA is a 1.5, and you need a GPA of 2 to pass, is it justified to take .5 from your GPA to give it to the guy who didn't work as hard? Or is it better to encourage the guy with a 1.5 GPA to get a 2 on his own independently so he can be successful without bringing you down. The best way to being up the poor should not involve bringing down the rich.
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