Jonathan Gruber
Jonathan Gruber
fun stupidity american-voters
Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon.
body-weight addresses may
Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight.
stupidity political american-voters
Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.
real believe obamacare
If any American really believes that Obamacare is going to control costs, I've got some real estate in Whitewater, Arkansas I'd like to sell them.
blew massive success
It was a massive success - it blew us away.
country mean reality
What's important to remember politically about this is if you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits-but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you're essentially saying [to] your citizens you're going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that that's a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these exchanges. But, you know, once again the politics can get ugly around this.
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There's a vast amount of (classical) repertoire and recordings, not to mention a number of different varieties of consumer interest, and it's very tough to try to pack all of that into a traditional store.