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You live in Texas, right?
This shit is flat out scary:
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/18/republican-party-texas-convention-cornyn/
Also, if you use AT & T phone service you get HBO Max for free.
Yours is an ignorant post.
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You can read that explicit subsidies, which don't include tax breaks made up 8% of the $5.9T total. Which comes to several billions of dollars of non-tax break subsidies.
I mean if you have a link to dispute the amount, that would be one thing to discuss, but just to bluster about it is silly.
Seriously? You can make sense of it?
You think this is deep?:
"You see, jail is a repository for what society considers immoral behaviour."
There is simply no consensus on immoral behavior, it's certainly not codified in law. One of the underpinnings of the Constitution is, theoretically, to protect us from the morality police. Else, the Taliban.
Please help turn Texas blue and reverse its race to the bottom (politically). With the influx of high tech companies and their employees, and retirees from blue states, it will be eventually. The sooner the better. Just saw this, from Raw Story:
"Meeting at their first in-person convention since 2018, Texas Republicans on Saturday acted on a raft of resolutions and proposed platform changes to move their party even further to the right. They approved measures declaring that President Joe Biden “was not legitimately elected” and rebuking Sen. John Cornyn for taking part in bipartisan gun talks. They also voted on a platform that declares homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice” and calls for Texas schoolchildren “to learn about the humanity of the preborn child.”"
Texas always wants to secede until there's a major storm or some other sort of catastrophe. Then Cruz and Abbot and the rest of them come running to the Feds for money.
It's like a bratty adult kid who lives at home and won't contribute a fair share to household expenses but complains about everything all the time.
If you had the money to lawyer up for all those court levels, maybe you should have just paid your taxes and been a good citizen.
Clearly you have the money, how can you take pride in not wanting to pay your fair share? Trump envy, I guess.
Ok, got it, and I agree that anyone who would pay $25 for a Tump Beer needs counseling asap.
And, clearly, his existence is a threat to the planet.
Poor oil companies:
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5-9-trillion-in-subsidies-in-2020-report-finds
Those mean climate change believers are ruining the lives of oil company execs.
I wonder why anyone would think that anyone else is trying to put energy companies out of business. That makes no sense.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gas-prices-oil-company-profits-skyrocketing-energy-sector-earnings-charts-2022-5#:~:text=The%20authors%20of%20the%20Center,profits%20in%20just%20three%20months.%22
How can a living, conscious, primate be convinced to take up the cause of energy companies, they seem to be doing ok on their own.
Right, the real dangers are the venues that pick up his vocal vomit and spread it on social media and the internets. In that way, his influence is outsized in relation to his actual audience size.
He's like a troll on television, maybe the first and foremost of his kind, just trying to get stupid ideas mainstreamed by repetition in other media.
The situation is that in America, stupid people get freedom of speech, and freedom to listen to that speech, and then they can vote. And there are a lot of them.
Still not sure what this has to do with a $25 beer. How much should we be allowed to spend on a bottle of good wine, say? $15? $50? $100?
At what point, do you reckon, that expense is immoral? You should really publish of list of things that will explain how much a moral amount for each one is. Then we could all be on the same page.
I get how golf and Trump are connected and how the Saudi clan and golf are connected. But Trump was just a useful idiot for them, they are not intimately linked to each other.
And that has to do with the price of a beer, how? Yours is a tiresome technique, pivoting on an issue to make someone else look unread or unable to deal with nuance.
Obviously, genius, an unfettered capitalist society is bad for people and the planet. But if someone is willing to spend $25 on a beer, that bothers you because climate change or something?
If the discussion is about income inequality, that's real. But whining about the high cost of a beer somewhere and trying to extrapolate that into a symbol of something that threatens mankind makes no sense. No matter how frequently you post.
Tucker who? You mean that rich kid brat who's on tv?
He draws about 3M viewers a night, the American population is something like 332M, so a whopping 1% of people tune into his clown show. In the words of Derrick Coleman, "whoop de damn do".
How so? Should the government, maybe, step in and put a cap on prices?
What's your problem with people spending their money the way they choose? We either have a free market economy or we don't.
I'm guessing that you probably think the government should control women's bodies, too.
Nor does anyone else outside her inner circle. I guess, maybe, she thought she could have a shot at being selected as VP, then move on up?
What opinion of others? That Franken deserved to be drummed out of Congress? That Gillibrand has integrity?
NY State has a record of electing some of the worst officials at every level. D'Amato, Pataki, Giuliani (a truly horrible man, even as Mayor), Zeldin, Gillibrand, Silver, Skelos:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/sep/19/elaine-phillips/new-york-has-been-most-corrupt-state-decades/
Hers was the worst sort of petty jealousy. Franken's a Harvard grad, was head writer (and a performer) on SNL, and has written a few best selling books. Gillebrand is a Dartmouth grad and I guess was afraid of being eclipsed by Franken.
Compare that to Dear Leader or, now, Walker, who's wife claimed he came at her with a gun. Or Judge Moore who was chasing hight school girls or Gaetz or Escort Bobert (not that there's anything wrong with being a sex worker). Democrats have a mastery of the circular firing squad.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/04/from-hastert-to-gaetz-lets-talk-about-republicans-and-sex-crimes.html
I'll never forgive my Senator, Gillebrand, for running Franken out of Congress, basically without due process. I generally vote the straight Democratic line but not for her.
Franken would have made a good candidate for President, he's very intelligent and media savvy. Gillebrand has, or had, her own Presidential ambitions and "some people were saying" that she acted to get rid of a competitor for a future nomination.
Send it to fuagf for all the work he does cleaning up the messes around here.
Honestly, I have no interest in knowing about your life and really can't see how you can possibly think that.
And, if I did have an interest in knowing about your life, you should feel flattered.
The subject was not greed in the marketplace, as that is undefinable. The subject was your objection to large profits made in short amounts of time in real estate.
If someone is greedy, by whatever standard, and someone else pays the greedy person's asking price, what does that have to do with your life? LOL.
"Fuck that greedy rapper and the real estate agent/broker and city tax assessor they rode in on."
No, not angry at all, just an impartial hypothetical, amirite?
As far as I can tell you seem to think it's bad that some people charge too much for some stuff and other people spend too much to buy that stuff at the asking price. But why that bothers you remains unclear.
Actually, I don't wonder and it would be hard for me to care less "that people sometimes come down on you (me)".
You failed to answer any questions, you just keep repeating the same stuff.
For example, why would you be mad at the seller in your hypothetical real estate deal? Should he have asked for less than the realtor estimated? Or the buyer, for that matter, if he wants to overspend on a property. What should be the top price asked for a property bought 3 years ago at $3M that would suit you? And why would you care about any of this?
And, finally, how exactly do imaginary sale prices of imaginary properties negatively impact your taxes?
Never mind, no thinking needed, just keep the snark coming, it's very entertaining.
"Fuck that greedy rapper and the real estate agent/broker and city tax assessor they rode in on."
No, not angry at all.
So you just made up that whole bit about a rapper buying a house for $3.5M and selling it 3 years later for $20M? And then built a case about whatever from your made up story?
And are now psychoanalyzing me based on some few postings of mine that you've read? Gotcha.
You seem committed to this issue, it's just a little hard to understand what it is.
1)Sorry but your anger seemed to be driving the entirety of your posts on this issue. Your taxes are going up, the no good city employees are increasing their benefits, the greedy whomevers, fuck them all..... yup, doesn't sound too angry at all.
2) Again, who determines what's over inflated and what's priced to your satisfaction? Is there a Council of Reasonable Expectations of Sales Prices?
3) I'm going to ignore your #1 because you can't attack the argument so you attack the person, it's not worthy of a response.
And the thing is, you can still buy pretty good artwork on Etsy or at lesser auctions in almost any price range.
But if you want a Picasso or a 30 room mansion, you're going to pay an obscene amount. Whether people should be able to amass a Musk sized fortune in an enlightened society is another issue.
I'm still unsure how you sit in a position of judgement on that rapper. What should he have done when the realtor said they could get however many $$$ for his house. Say he wanted less?
You sound angry about this, but how would propose actually putting caps on the prices that can be charged for things? We have a hard enough time in this country passing living wage legislation, how could you hope to pass real anti-capitalist measures?
If you think that's good, how about a David Hockney spending a few hundred on supplies for a painting and then getting a couple of million for it.
Things are worth whatever someone is willing to pay for them. Putting aside your opinion of the rapper, if someone is willing to pay $20M for his house, what do you care? And why shouldn't he get that if he can?
There's no right or wrong in this, there's no price judge, if no one's willing to pay it, then the price will have to go down. I don't see a problem and yes, I think it's realistic if it really happened.
If you had bought that house for $3.5M and someone offered you $20M for it, are you seriously claiming you'd turn it down on some moral grounds? Take the money and donate it to charity if you feel guilty but people can pay whatever they want. Incentivize builders to put up more subsidized housing units, you can't blame them for wanting to optimize profits.
If you're arguing about income inequality or zoning variances, that's something different, but how else do you explain Starbucks? Or bitcoin? Or McClaren cars?
This was about newmedman's itchy dog for goodness sakes. You brought up this other stuff for whatever reason. Why the fuck do you keep mentioning conix? Is he or she newmedman also?
I guess you're one of these guys who won't answer a direct question - like why not look up the relevant posts, I put up their #'s. So sure, I'm drunk and gay and a hedge fund manager like all the other New Yorkers, none of whom you've ever met.
Whatever floats your boat.
I have zero problems with a discussion about the harm caused by religions and how we might be better off without them.
There's a difference between being an agnostic and an atheist. You are conflating the issues.
Ok, but that's a different discussion and I don't necessarily disagree. I notice, however, that even in your disregard for various religions, you capitalize their names.
The thread was about an itchy dog. No idea how you can claim you are following that.
Again, this was a newmedman remark about his dog. I have no idea how someone named conix entered the discussion and why you referenced religion. I put up the post numbers but I guess in your haste to be insulting you didn't have time to check them out.
Everyone must conform to my expectations how? You should maybe change your handle to "Cheap Shot Artist".
Seriously, what's a conix and why are you referencing it to a dialogue that didn't mention it?
I get that there's a poster around here with that name, but the discussion at hand is a satirical one about someone who commented about their dog not knowing their gender.
Does everyone here start drinking at lunchtime?
Sorry, that makes no sense. Earth to you: if people aren't moving to CA, the real estate prices would decline.
Your response was to newmedman's comment about his itchy dog. Go back and re-read the thread. Me capitalizing my name, or not, has zero to do with respecting religions.
Yours is #416355 in response to #416351
Bingo, Sparky. Supply and demand. More people want to live there than don't. Get it?