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" Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it. "

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" Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise. "

Timothy Noah

Always

Risk

Skeleton

" The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland. "

Timothy Noah

Protection

Military

" In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death. "

" The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way. "

" President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election. "

" Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. "

" For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch. "

Timothy Noah

Man

Nothing

" The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time. "

" Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. "

Timothy Noah

Health

Finance

" Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom. "

" Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all. "

" Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around. "

Timothy Noah

Truth

Enough

" The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. "

" You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more. "

" Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work. "

" Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. "

" On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details. "

" Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama. "

" The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. "

" Working people vote! "

" The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely. "

" We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts. "

" Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. "

" Universities are basically socialist institutions. "

" The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians. "

" In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them. "

" Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it. "

" There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks. "

" Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines. "

Timothy Noah

Than

Toxic

" I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression. "