This term must be understood as an “autonomous concept”—to borrow from the European human rights terminology—in the sense that its meaning reflects a very specific form of deprivation of liberty that differs from the common use of the term under most other national jurisdictions. Whereas “...
the things that are associated with the upward-sloping portion of the Rahn Curve. But as governments grow in size, the assumption is that they start spending money onvarious entitlement programsanddifferent types of subsidies, and these are things associated with weaker ...
As you can see, the USA had a population pyramid back in 1964, meaning plenty of working-age people and not that many old people to subsidize. But that ratio is dramatically different in 2023 and it will change even more by 2050. With very grim fiscal consequences. Let’s also take a...
Open Document In the three short stories that have been read in this class they have something similar. Three stories are “The Most Dangerous Game”, “Liberty”, and “Sniper”. However, they have similar and different settings, characters, and conflict. The setting of “Sniper” takes plac...
The Court titles had fancy names and came with regular allowances. The more mundane ones had a rate of return of 2.5%- 3.0%, while the higher-ups (like Protospatharios, loosely meaning First Sword Bearer, with responsibilities that oscillated among Chief Bodyguard, Receptionist and Master of ...
A far more well-known and controversial field is that of Bible codes. To even approach a debate on the significance or meaning of messages some claim God encrypted in the Bible, we must have good data to back it up – andlotsof it. Consider a well-known example: by taking every 50 ...
According to the Life and Times, Scrooge struggled from child’s age. The Number One Dime was not “Lucky”, it was earned by polishing boots. It deliberately was a lowly US coin (instead of the expected Scottish one), by a well-meaning ploy to inform young Scrooge that there are cheat...
And itemization, of course, becomes increasingly common the more money you make – meaning that the wealthy are far more likely to be harmed by changes that penalize itemization. This graph provides a nice summary: To summarize, the GOP tax bill provides tax cuts for virtually everyone who ...
constitutional law. It’s the difference between a philosophical discussion and a mathematical equation. The first is open to interpretation while the second is based on hard and fast rules that simply can not be broken. People may not agree on the meaning of life, but 1+1 always equals 2...
We have new days every day and we can choose to do something of value and of meaning each and every new day if we only decide to do so. Leave a comment Filed under Uncategorized June 25, 2020 · 12:35 pm Time Marches On Writing one’s opinions and publishing them where all can ...