Modern Progressive Policies in the US

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I like my definition best.

[Number 47]

I like my definition best.

Fist fight with my older sister.

[bklynboy68]

American Bar Association Drops LSAT Requirement For Law School Admissions In The Name Of Diversity

Reagan Reese
November 18, 2022


The accrediting council for the American Bar Association (ABA) voted 15-1 to no longer require the administering of the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) for law school applications, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Starting in 2025, the ABA will no longer mandate that law schools require a “valid and reliable admission test” as a part of its application process, after feedback from a public comment period suggested that dropping the testing requirement would increase diversity, according to WSJ. Law schools may still require the test as a part of its admissions process, but the LSAT will no longer be required for accreditation.


The Clinical Legal Education Association, a group focused on promoting justice and diversity within the legal foundation, argued that dropping the LSAT requirement would allow law schools to individually address “the persistent lack of racial diversity” within their institutions, according to the WSJ.

Chancellor of the Southern University Law Center John Pierre said that the institution, a historically black university, would continue to require the LSAT in its admissions process, despite backing the ABA vote, the WSJ reported.

Of 82 law schools surveyed, at least 30 schools said they would still require the LSAT as a part of their admissions process, according to a November Kaplan Inc. survey. Approximately two schools said the chances they continue requiring the test are “unlikely” and 37 schools were yet to decide if they would require the test.


Assistant Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Kristen Theis-Alvarez, told the WSJ that dropping the requirement to increase diversity might actually have reverse effects.

“We believe that removal of the testing requirement could actually increase the very disparities proponents seek to reduce by increasing the influence of bias in the review process,” Theis-Alvarez said according to the WSJ.

The vote comes as Yale Law School pulled out of one of the nation’s largest ranking systems, saying the program is “flawed” because it fails to reward schools which help students who come from “low-income backgrounds.” The law school said the rankings hurt schools who accept students who could not afford tutoring to get better grades.

The ABA did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.


https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/18/a..._campaign=home




Boy, do we need an asteroid to hit us.

[It's Mike]

American Bar Association Drops LSAT Requirement For Law School Admissions In The Name Of Diversity

Reagan Reese
November 18, 2022


The accrediting council for the American Bar Association (ABA) voted 15-1 to no longer require the administering of the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) for law school applications, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Starting in 2025, the ABA will no longer mandate that law schools require a “valid and reliable admission test” as a part of its application process, after feedback from a public comment period suggested that dropping the testing requirement would increase diversity, according to WSJ. Law schools may still require the test as a part of its admissions process, but the LSAT will no longer be required for accreditation.


The Clinical Legal Education Association, a group focused on promoting justice and diversity within the legal foundation, argued that dropping the LSAT requirement would allow law schools to individually address “the persistent lack of racial diversity” within their institutions, according to the WSJ.

Chancellor of the Southern University Law Center John Pierre said that the institution, a historically black university, would continue to require the LSAT in its admissions process, despite backing the ABA vote, the WSJ reported.

Of 82 law schools surveyed, at least 30 schools said they would still require the LSAT as a part of their admissions process, according to a November Kaplan Inc. survey. Approximately two schools said the chances they continue requiring the test are “unlikely” and 37 schools were yet to decide if they would require the test.


Assistant Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Kristen Theis-Alvarez, told the WSJ that dropping the requirement to increase diversity might actually have reverse effects.

“We believe that removal of the testing requirement could actually increase the very disparities proponents seek to reduce by increasing the influence of bias in the review process,” Theis-Alvarez said according to the WSJ.

The vote comes as Yale Law School pulled out of one of the nation’s largest ranking systems, saying the program is “flawed” because it fails to reward schools which help students who come from “low-income backgrounds.” The law school said the rankings hurt schools who accept students who could not afford tutoring to get better grades.

The ABA did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.


https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/18/a..._campaign=home




Boy, do we need an asteroid to hit us.

What a great way to steal tuition from unqualified students

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[bklynboy68]

What a great way to steal tuition from unqualified students

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Oh, the system here is good at that.

[fudd]

What a great way to steal tuition from unqualified students

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And rush disbarments.


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[Number 47]

Good! How about you all stop fucking trying to reinvent well established characters and create some of your own.


Ruh-roh! Mindy Kaling's new Scooby Doo spinoff Velma is slammed as a 'massive disaster'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...haracters.html

[edwardv]

Great more lousy lawyers on the way.

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[TJENZ]

Hot take:

Scooby Doo has always been a shitty cartoon. I can't imagine anyone over the age of 8 who thinks Scooby Doo is or was good.

[bklynboy68]

'Class warfare': Wealth tax the latest measure by California Democrats to squeeze the rich

Amid California's massive budget deficit, measures leading wealthy to flee could end up hurting tax revenue

January 24, 2023

A new wealth tax being pushed by California Democrats is the latest of several recent measures in the Golden State to tax the rich — and not the last one in the works.

Last week, Democrat Assemblyman Alex Lee introduced a bill in California that would impose an annual 1.5% tax on those with a "worldwide net worth" above $1 billion, starting as early as January 2024.

As early as 2026, the threshold for being taxed would drop, and those with a worldwide net worth exceeding $50 million would be hit with a 1% annual tax on wealth, while billionaires would still be taxed 1.5%.

The legislation is a modified version of a wealth tax approved in the California Assembly in 2020 that the Democrat-led state Senate declined to pass.

The current version just introduced includes measures to allow California to impose wealth taxes on residents even years after they left the state and moved elsewhere.

According to experts, the wealth tax is one of several proposals in the state to target high-income earners.

"The wealth tax California Democrats are now pushing is the sort of class warfare that California voters rejected last year when they voted down Proposition 30, a tax hike on high earners that, like the proposed wealth tax, was touted as a way to make the rich pay higher taxes," Patrick Gleason, vice president of state affairs at the Americans for Tax Reform, told Fox News Digital.

Proposition 30 was a 2022 ballot measure that would've raised the state's top income tax rate — already the highest in the nation at 13.3% — beyond 15%. About 58% of voters rejected the tax hike.

Despite the resounding defeat, however, another effort to raise California's top marginal tax rate has already made it onto the ballot for the 2024 election. The measure, officially titled the California Pandemic Early Detection and Prevention Initiative, would raise the top marginal state income tax rate from its current level to 14.05% on earnings above $5 million. The new top rate would remain in effect for 10 years.

The proposed tax hike made it to the ballot with the help of Guarding Against Pandemics, a nonprofit founded and led by Gabe Bankman-Fried, the brother of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. The group dedicated millions of dollars to a campaign to get the statewide initiative that would tax California's wealthiest residents and fund public health initiatives on the ballot, the Los Angeles Times has repored.

Gabe Bankman-Fried stepped down as director in November, three days after FTX filed for bankruptcy.


It's unclear whether Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom will support the 2024 measure. His office didn't respond to a request for comment. The governor opposed Proposition 30.

In a separate proposal last year that never passed, lawmakers sought to add to the 13.3% rate a 1% surcharge to gross income of more than $1 million, 3% on income over $2 million, and 3.5% on income above $5 million.

However, Democrats in California haven't just been pushing for tax hikes on the rich — many such efforts have been targeted at the entire state.

Last year, for example, lawmakers introduced a bill that would impose a 25% tax on the profits from a home resold within three years after being bought, the Los Angeles Times noted at the time.

Perhaps most striking, California legislators passed and Newsom signed into law major tax increases on employers right in the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the summer of 2020. Among other measures, the law for the next three years suspends the ability of taxpayers to deduct net operating losses, which occur when one's deductions for the year are more than their income for the year, and limits business tax credits to $5 million per year.

According to the California Tax Foundation, the law amounts to a "$9.2 billion tax increase over three years ($4.4 billion in 2020) on California employers by limiting and suspending tax laws that were intended to help struggling businesses and support California jobs."

Despite such taxes, California faces a massive $22.5 billion budget deficit this year — after the state enjoyed a large surplus last year. Lee, who introduced the most recent wealth tax, hopes his bill can address the current deficit.

"This is how we can keep addressing our budgetary issues," he told the Los Angeles Times. "Basically, we could plug the entire hole."

Economists differ over the point at which raising taxes can become counterproductive in terms of raising government revenue. What's clear, however, is that people are leaving high-tax states — including California.

Indeed, the 10 highest tax states lost nearly 1 in 100 residents in net domestic migration between July 2021 and July 2022, while the 10 lowest tax states gained almost 1 in 100, according to a recent analysis by James Doti, president emeritus and economics professor at Chapman University.

Meanwhile, the U-Haul Growth Index, which measured more than two million one-way trips last year, found that the only other state with more than 30 million residents, California, ranked last on the index as demand for trucks out of the Golden State spiked.


The exodus from California, particularly of high-income earners, could prove problematic for the government's coffers as the top 0.5% of taxpayers pay 40% of California's state income tax, according to recent figures.

H.D. Palmer of the California Department of Finance said in a recent interview with California Public Radio that in 2020, 1% of the total number of income tax returns that were filed were responsible for more than 49% of all the personal income tax that was paid in that year.






https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wea...s-squeeze-rich

[VH1986]

Hot take:

Scooby Doo has always been a shitty cartoon. I can't imagine anyone over the age of 8 who thinks Scooby Doo is or was good.

I still loved it at 10, sue me.

[I Coulda Hada VH]

Hot take:

Scooby Doo has always been a shitty cartoon. I can't imagine anyone over the age of 8 who thinks Scooby Doo is or was good.

My dog and I would agree with you, but then all three of us would be wrong ...

Scooby Doo.jpg

[Dave's Dreidel]

Do they think people just won't simply leave California? I love it there, it is a beautiful state, but there is no way I am living somewhere that is going to hand out tax dollars for reparations, as an example.

I know they are just saying they are going to do these things, but if they actually start handing out millions of dollars to people because of something that happened to their great great grandfather, or taxing your wealth that has already been taxed multiple tiems, fuck that, I'd be outta there.

[edwardv]

There's something wrong with sales tax, property tax,state income tax,local income tax, FICA,federal income tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax,and now reparations tax and carbon tax.

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[Dave's Dreidel]

If you live in parts of Maryland you have the rainwater tax...that's my favorite.