October 4, 2019 7:10 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, October 4, 2019
I don’t want to talk about it.
- Forest Park – the gift that keeps on giving.
- Representin’.
- It’s the movie we need now, more than ever.
- Well, “Faculty Responsibility” doesn’t mean what you think it means, anyway.
- Remember who else gave weapons-grade speeches?
- Makes total sense.
- Taxes are a pox on us all.
- Indeed.
- Mr. Rogers.
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“Former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price made news recently when he submitted a resume in hopes of becoming retiring U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson’s successor.
That effort may have taken a hit this past week following the resignation of U.S. Rep. Christopher Collins, R-N.Y., who then pleaded guilty to felony charges of insider trading. Collins’ plea involved a company called Innate Immunotheraputics.
Price, who formerly represented Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, was one of four other congressmen who bought stock in Innate at a steep discount. Price has said he learned about the drugmaker from Collins but only invested in the company after reading more about it.”
https://www.ajc.com/news/state–regional-govt–politics/capitol-recap-price-bid-for-senate-seat-may-have-hit-bump/vlPSAwGTlzpUCBcW1T73AK/#
I hope Kemp decides Price would be too much of a liability and look elsewhere.
Why take a chance on damaged goods when it’s clear Kemp will have a wide selection of Trump party hacks to choose from: Jack Kingston and Randy Evans have applied for Isakson’s seat.
https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/georgia-senate-randy-evans-jack-kingston-apply-for-isakson-seat/FokHuS99aQ6y0C44EM2vVN/?utm_source=newspaper&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9881217&ecmp=newspaper_email&
There’s been talk Jan Jones would be a good appointment because she’s a suburban woman, a demographic that’s been going south for the Republican Party. That reasoning could backfire.
It’s #CapeDayATL for 2019! Today, we honor the superhero patients battling illnesses and injuries at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta!
Throw two more hats into the ring for the Senate seat being vacated by Johnny Isakson: former Ga GOP officer/counsel and current US Ambassador to Luxembourg, Randy Evans, and former US Rep Jack Kingston.
Someone should ask Newt if he prefers his daughter or Evans.
The ANoVa flag is “a sticker you put on the back of your pickup truck to announce that you intend to marry your sister. Think of it like a white trash ‘Save The Date’ card.”
“David Perdue and President Trump are fighting for the country and what it stands for: capitalism.” Georgia Republican national committeewoman Ginger Howard.
Good to know that the country stands for making a buck. It explains dealmaker Trump taking something of no value to himself, foreign democracy, and negotiating with the Chinese to parlay it into something very valuable to himself, in-kind re-election campaign assistance. MAGA.
I didn’t want to take the Dean Alford thread too far afield so I’ve brought this over here. Even though I’ve seen the cost of higher education in Georgia explained away here for years there are still questions in my mind concerning the actions of our Board of Regents. Do we have proper oversight of their actions? I simply don’t know and am asking only because of the skyrocketing costs and other decisions made by this group that should bear looking into. I don’t want to even imply anything nefarious, I’m simply asking questions for which I cannot find readily available answers.
In my youth going to UGA or Georgia Tech was quite affordable. But I’m not going into ancient history lets look at 1998 to 2018 at this site:
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/tuition-and-fees
There you will find that even when adjusted for inflation that tuition alone at those 2 schools cost 2½ times more in that time period. For example, in-state tuition at UGA in 1998 was $2930 which equals $4,524 when adjusted to 2018 dollars, while the in-state tuition for that same school in 2018 was $11,830. Is the education one obtains there now 2½ times better?
And this is just tuition. We all know there are other expenses for the student. Housing has been outsourced. Ditto cafeterias. Does using a middleman ever decrease costs to the consumer? Commuter options have been largely eliminated or rolled into the same pricing matrices as full-time enrollment…
A bit of the increase is less state funding. A college education increasing being an employment requirement increases demand and costs follow. HOPE covering tuition for some removes or lessen cost concerns. It goes without saying that the increase in administrative personnel has exceeded the increase in number of students.
Re: the article on taxes: While it does at least derive its narrative from data, it’s like making a smoothie with a bunch of random food and saying “See how awful it is?”, because at least it’s using food. Overarching is the use of averages on measures of income and expenses. Long ago many scientists realized how skewed averages can be in those areas, so turned to medians instead. But to debunk the narrative, just think of a billionaire versus someone making $30K a year. Maybe the wealthy spends a slight to moderate amount more on clothes, but how much more will they spend on groceries or even health care relatively? Those expenses, including clothes, are relatively flat per person, while the tax bills will likely vary considerably, especially if including property taxes. That doesn’t even address the part of the narrative that omits the benefits side of the taxes. It’s just cherry-picking random data and blending it all together in order to express disgust. Sure, no one likes to pay taxes. But don’t try to sell me that smoothie and tell me it’s good for me.
My memory of the Richard Jewel situation was not so much ‘fake news’ but ‘bad policing’.