Stuart Varney is worth a reported ten million dollars, and gets paid in the hundreds of thousands by Fox Business to tell white retired people (who got THEIR pension and everyone else is a moocher) that minimum wage earners are greedy for wanting $15.00 an hour.
Watching a fearless economist (Axios's Felix Salmon) call for Universal Basic Income and then tell Varney to his face that, quote, "You have too much"? Priceless!
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VARNEY: Are you a socialist?
SALMON: No.
VARNEY: What are you?
SALMON: Maybe.
VARNEY: Way left of center? Did you declare that when you came to America and became a citizen?
SALMON: They asked me if I had or had ever been a member of the Communist Party, and I had not.
They still do that?
VARNEY: And you had not.
SALMON: I had not.
VARNEY: So you're off the hook.
SALMON: Exactly.
VARNEY: You can be a socialist on television, but you don't tell the immigration authorities about it.
Sorry, what the fuck?
SALMON: Now it's too late now, I'm a citizen.
I am not aware that socialists are an excluded group.
BTW, if this Wikipedia article is correct, it appears the current legal doctrine is that congress can constitutionally exclude any group for any reason.
And that means for reasons of race, religion, or whatever.
So the Congress, though perhaps not the president, could ban Muslims from entry.
Or nonwhites, for that matter.
Were that attempted, the liberals on the court would be prepared to overturn existing legal doctrine in order to prevent it, I'm sure.
But what would the conservatives do?
Come to that, what would they do if the president tried it again, after Kavanaugh gets confirmed?
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