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The US budget is:
22% social security.
15% Medicare.
15% interest on debt.
13% Medicaid/Obamacare.
13% military spending.
10% unemployment and food stamp benefits.
6% veteran benefits including healthcare.
6% everything else: education, infrastructure, law enforcement, national parks, NASA, etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Seems like a meaningless stat. Mahomes was in the Superbowl both years he made the low list. None of the high list made the Superbowl those years.

    It's more a measure of O line quality and receiver deep threats than anything.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago
    1. Marriage generally doesn't result in tax savings, you'd need an extremely specific scenario for that to be true.
    2. Marriage is the most legally significant thing most people will do in their life except die, it's expensive and time consuming to undo if you want to later.
    3. Marriage gives real rights to the other person, just because you treat it like roommates doesn't change that. It's complicated to prevent a spouse from inheritance or medical decisions. Community property states could make you liable for their debts.
    4. If it's just for health insurance, try to get coverage without marriage. It's probably easier to go the marriage route, but it's sometimes possible to get exemptions or companies that allow a non married domestic partner.
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  • [–] 39 points 2 weeks ago

    This is a ruling that has less to do with justice and more to do with ensuring the states interest. It's in the interest of the state to not have to take responsibility for a child, assigning the husband as responsible is the easy way to remove the burden from the state.

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    Something needs to be done after the garbage first round of playoffs.

    • No automatic bye for conference champions seems good.

    This article stops short of saying the Big12 and ACC should only get one team in, but I'd support that until proven they aren't week conferences.

    Strength of schedule needs to be a bigger factor, an 11-1 Indiana never deserved a spot. My ideal default would be 6 SEC, 3 Big10, and the other automatic qualifiers.

     

    Now is a great time for if I were there hypotheticals, so here's mine.

    Once it was decided to run Harris and push Biden out, they should have gone all the way and used the 25th amendment to let Harris become president. This would have effectively separated her from Biden while still allowing her to take credit for the good stuff. She could have instructed the DOJ to start investigating price gouging now, and campaigned on needing to win to keep it up.

    The 100ish days wouldn't have been enough for wholesale replacement, but it could have created a concrete message of this is where I want to go. A campaign focused on already delivering is a positive message people could get behind as well.

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