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This article doesn't mention the large number of illegal immigrants in the United States. To what extend does this affect income inequality? A large supply of unskilled labor would tend to keep wages lower.

Maybe the US should keep the unskilled labor market tight(er) and then wages should rise.

Is it? I don't have a good handle on the logistical issues involved. Does the media? Commenters on this site?

Which resources should the government haved used and didn't?

The National Review is not alt-right. Don't believe me, read it and decide where it fits on the spectrum of things.

I missed how Trump is a homophobe. Seriously, is there evidence for this or is it just a general insult thrown out when someone does something you don't like?

This is exactly what the Tea Party did (with tremendous >help from Koch brothers) in last eight years. They >unseated the old leaders and took over the party.

Do you have a link showing where, "they took over the party"? My understanding is that the Tea Party is a minority faction within the GOP.

Is there something more to the story? I travel with laptops and iPads all the time. Never been stopped.

I think Darth Vader is worse than neo-Nazis and equally likely to affect affect my life in any measurable way.

Street gangs have done several killings near where I live, neo-Nazis and Darth Vader, not so much.

Way to stand up for the little guy liberals, you are truly an inspiration to us all.

The whole Bay Area

Probably will take a few weeks before the UK has to go "full North Korea"

First a pizza place in the Rust Belt won't cater to a hypothetical gay wedding and now this. I guess that Pizza is the new front-line in the culture wars. Pretty sad in my opinion. That said, if there is a war, I hope Domino's and Pizza Hut don't make it. They are the true villains of Big Pizza.

Thank God this is in the newspaper. Now Barack Obama will know about it. Maybe he can make a speech and end the war. I think there is a prize for that.

Millions of government workers have pensions. Most of them are quite generous.

Your retire with 100K, that year you lose 20K in the stock market, you pay no taxes. Next year you make 20K in the stock market. Is it fair for that entire 20K to be taxed?

That is wrong, you couldn't buy a house in 90s on a high school drop outs salary. You have to go back to the early 80s for that.

So under your system, a person can steal without the threat of jail so long as they don't do it violently. Hard to see the downsides of such a system.

No. I would rather they go to jail.

I had insurance, it did not cover all of the losses. Assuming this wasn't the first house they robbed, there are many people who suffered losses as well.

I do have a son and I would be very unhappy if he started robbing houses. Because of this, I consider it my responsibility to raise him correctly. A concept that seems sadly out of fashion these days.

I want them locked up, so they don't commit more crimes. Obviously the police don't catch every criminal that commits every crime. So catching them and locking them prevents them from committing more crimes.

I pay taxes from my salary and a portion of those taxes goes to pay prisons. I would be happy to pay more.

What is the average number of property crimes committed before a criminal is arrested and jailed? The crew that robbed my home hasn't been arrested for that crime. When (if) they are eventually caught, I want them locked up.

Last week, my plumber told me how dire the situation was under the house. Even though he is an expert, I still got 2 other quotes.

The article you linked, doesn't say we spent $6 trillion in Iraq, it mentions a report saying the costs could be 6 trillion over the next 40 years. The infrastructure report wants 4 trillion by 2020. Very different time periods.

Hope and Change, ahh, good times.

Now we are Stronger Together.

Maybe so, but if you made a donation to the Clinton Foundation, you wouldn't be subpoenaed in the first place.

I would like to find out more too. It is hard to believe that the police are just randomly hassling sellers of Mac-Books.

You should go somewhere else, stuff like this happens all the time.

They live on a farm, somewhere, you really wouldn't want to visit.

Symptoms of a dying society (fertility rate of 1.57). Can't wait to see what they think of next.

Imagine that.

From the link:

Like the shift from 40-year mortgage subsidies to 15- year housing certificates, the shift from the certificates to 5-year vouchers enabled Congress to reduce HUD's budget authorizations. Such reductions have created the mistaken impression that federal housing assistance has been cut. In fact, annual outlays increased from $5.7 billion in 1980 to $13.8 billion in 1988. The number of families being served by HUD housing programs rose from 3.1 million in 1980 to 4.2 million in 1988. Moreover, a housing voucher costs the government only about $4,500 a year, whereas a new unit of public housing costs it $9,000 a year.

I guess mistaken impressions are still common on the internet.

But could he do it for Hillary? That would be a real challenge.