important supreme court decision we don t go into a great deal of detail but if there is an alternative sentence of life imprisonment no parole juries must be advised of that. if not you have to do it all over again. so if juries know they have the choice death or life without parole, the personal never see the light of day again we find they re more inclined to vote for life in prison. talk about arbitrary and capricious there are 15,000 homicides per year in the u.s.. that iso dn and several hundred deaths sentences but over the last three or four years the average 40 or 50 executions. so many deathnces and homicides that so few executions that robert bork said yes it is arbitrary and capricious only that those who are deserving of the death penalty don t get executed when they should. but look at it this way. if i said pick a card and you picked the wrong car you will die? nobody would go along with that. but as a practical matter that is the way this needs to play out. kn
up on tax return. the big question is whether it would affect the long-run increase we see or whether it affects the flat inequality we saw before the late 1970s. and i think that s a tougher case to make. so a lot of people switch their incomes a lot of businesses switched from reporting in come as corporate income and corporate tax returns as s corporation in terms which you think allen has done more than anybody points out. and that clearly shows up in the data after 1980 as increases in business income received. but if that change hadn t happened, as saez pointed out himself, folks would ve received that in the form of capital gains. they eventually would realize their gains, which that income is then reported on corporate tax returns for years. eventually shareholders realize and then because these are sort of gains accumulated over time, in the background once they are realized and they show up on tax returns, it s going to show up as an even bigger confrontation as i
kicked him in the dark and as a senator he hadn t had that close of access to the branch said he is still learning the job and the essence is because he s still learning the job he hasn t developed the political skills yet to be able to get what roosevelt might have been able to get. then the question is could roosevelt have had achieved this? it s one of these kind of counterfactual questions you think about i wondered if roosevelt had been able to do it. i m not sure he would have been able to do so. what do you think? i think one side of this that is interesting and we point this out in fdr goes to war is fdr had lost a lot of clout in congress in 39 and 40. his court packing scheme in 38 really incurred a lot of people and then he also tried to of course purge of various members of congress and the senate did one of them was the senator from maryland and if you notice in the book it leads the filibuster to defeat several of the proposals fdr once passed before congress
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they became allies. there was a puppet government. together objectives of invading thailand was we reusing the supply leading the chinese nationals against the japanese and east china and so by going into thailand, you could achieve two goals to control the country and the middle resources and number two, cut the road. i was thinking there was also a greater threat perhaps in indonesia would have been more natural resources even to exploit. estimate in which they eventually went after but they had put in french indochina over 100,000 troops. it s really only one place to go from there and that is to go into thailand. estimate the other thing i know i wanted to ask but i forgot without one was. the other thing is i would strongly recommend any young people, and i m sure you feel the same way who question the use of the atomic bomb. that the nature of the japanese fighting, the way they fought on hiroshima and okinawa which were both japanese soil. they were the soil of jap