The point is that religious indoctrination has had a deleterious effect. Those solutions do not work.
I was just looking at the current Money magazine which explains how Trump's tax cuts would affect us. He wants a $30,000 standard deductible for married couples filing jointly. That would wipe out taxes for many low income families. Currently the standard deduction for them is a little over $12k. He's serious about tax breaks. You should look into it a bit closer. As for any references to Jesus I brought up, look them up, nothing new there, it's accurate. And no one is talking about making the country a theocracy. I started all this by saying our schools would be better served if we didn't take God completely out of it. And I elaborated that if kids dressed properly, spoke properly, respected authority, values that Christians advocate, they'd have an environment conducive to learning. I'm amazed at the clothing I see teenagers wear to school. Would've been sent home in my day. Tell me how young people with raging hormones learn in such an environment? You were primarily the one who turned what I said into an attempt to force feed religious extremism to young impressionable minds. It's exactly that kind of interpretation of everything religious, even in the slightest, that has driven it from the public realm. With constantly seeking out any leftover vestiges to drive underground. Are we all better for it? Only the haters seem to think so.
My reference was to a different era and a specific war but one fact has never changed and never will. With war there are winners and losers and some times neither and people die sometimes millions of then and the vast majority who did never expected their lives to end on a battlefield cut short by decades only because they were born at the wrong time and to families that weren't rich enough to use their wealth and power to keep them out of harm's way.
And what history would that be?
A secular society, like the US, is preferable. The results are even better when the people can practice their religion are from the intrusion of others. Freedom of religion and freedom from religion.
Why the rich of course. And if Trump gets all the cuts he wants it will run a deficit so large that it will make the Obama deficit look like toll booth change. Rest assured in VT's mind's eye if it's a Trump deficit it will still the Dem"s fault.
Why would they be happy? Gas is cheap. Electric companies aren't switching back are they?
The new regime cancelled some new regulations that likely would have increased the cost of coal production. They're happy because they don't have to try and clean up their act now and can keep dumping their waste in streams. Coal is still a dead fuel walking, this just lets them hold on a bit longer.
IEEFA U.S. Coal Outlook 2017: Short-Term Gains Muted by Prevailing Weaknesses in Fundamentals - Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis
Don't know. If they raise the standard deduction to $30k(Trump's proposal), or $24k(Republican leadership proposal), for married joint filers, would be a big plus for millions of poorly paid couples.